May 2024

Enjoy the lighter evenings and get outside during National Walking Month.

Activities to try:

• Test your navigation and plan a hike with Only a mile to go
• Run an Incident Hike
• Explore your local area with Where to next?

May Day marks the beginning of summer, and has been celebrated since the Romans.

Activities to try:

• Create a community garden with Our wild community garden
• Get moving in The stave dance
• Create a colourful bouquet in Fascinating flowers

This week brings awareness to the isolation that people who are deaf and hearing impaired can experience, while promoting social inclusion of those with hearing loss. Learn more about supporting your young people.

Activities to try:

• Learn to fingerspell with Sign with me
• Gain perspective on what needs to change with Meet the local supporters

Explore a galaxy far, far away, with our new Star Wars themed activities. May the fourth be with you! 

Activities to try: 

• Cook Nubs’ space noodles
• Play daring Droid rescue
• Make a hope time capsule

Take part in fundraising for the British Red Cross.

Activities to try:

• Prepare for an emergency with Kindness in emergencies
• Plan a project to support the British Red Cross with Red Cross code
• Shout about the power of kindness and Make a kindness community display

Feeling like you are glued to your phone or computer? Why not have a screen-free week with some activities to get you active and outdoors.

Activities to try: 

• Commit to the switch off challenge
• Go on a treasure hunt
• While you're outside, discover lots of new natural features

Fairtrade Day celebrates and supports small-scale farmers, producers and their families to help create sustainable communities.

Activities to try:

• Make chocolate bananas in Fairly baked bananas
• Visit a farm near you with Top of the crops
• Think about where we get our food from with Go where it grows

International Museum Day has a different theme each year, to celebrate the value that museums bring to our communities.  

Activities to try:

• Make a mini museum
• Explore an air museum
• Create your own collection with Clued-up collections

The purpose of World Bee Day's to acknowledge the role of bees and other pollinators for the ecosystem.

Activities to try:

• Build a bee hotel with Bee prepared
• Play a fun, nectar collecting game with Honey makes the world go round
• Dance like a bee with Waggle dancing

This day aims to raise awareness of the long history and cultural significance of tea around the world.

Activities to try:

• Create a storm in a teacup

Vesak is also known as Buddha Day. It's a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhists to commemorate the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha. 

Activities to try:

• Invite a faith leader to visit your group with Buddhist beliefs
• Try some meditation with Breathe like Buddha

Be kinder to our planet and help save the turtles with some fun recycling activities.

Activities to try:

• Learn the art of recycling
• Take your recycling to the sea as you make your own boat. Who knows, you may even see a turtle there!

During National Children's Gardening Week, celebrate the benefits of being outside and gardening.

Activities to try:

• Maintain wildlife habitats with Tool it right
• Create gardening beds out of old tyres with Grow big or go home
• Trim trees with Look before you lop

Take some time to celebrate the unofficial national delicacy of the United Kingdom! 

Activities to try:

• Take your biscuit making outside with backwoods biscuits
• Cool yourself off with some melted snow biscuits
• Make some cookies with character