March 2026

Celebrate the vital role of women in our history and society. 

Activities to try:

• Make a suffrage rosette.
• Create Frida's four corner masterpiece.
• Learn about Rosa Parks.

The Islamic month of Ramadan will start on the evening the new crescent moon is sighted. Muslims around the world will fast for 30 days, before celebrating Eid al-Fitr. 

Activities to try: 

• Visit a mosque to learn about Islam.
• Break your fast by taking part in an iftar. 
• Make this tasty treat, Mtbabaq from Jerusalem.
• Make a good deeds jar.

St David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi) celebrates Wales' patron saint and is a big day throughout the country. You can get a blanket badge from Scouts Store, too. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! 

Activities to try:

• Bake Scout Cymru's Welsh cakes
• Play Rugby rumble
• Use leeks in these veggie pasties 

The Jewish festival of Purim is celebrated with fancy dress, parades and reading of the story of Esther. 

Activities to try:

• Bake triangular biscuits called Hamantaschen
• Make your own graggers
• Invite a guest who practices Judaism and make Faith feathers

Get inspired by some of our Supporters on National Careers Week.

You can:

• Develop leadership, communication and problem-solving skills with Get Into Teaching.
• Explore the magic of film-making with Into Film.
• Reach for the stars with the UK Space Agency

Get fixing, mending and upcycling, to give your things a new lease of life and save them from the bin. Check locally in your community to see what events might be happening and how you could get involved.

Activities to try:

• Learn how to repair a bike puncture
• Repair tears with Patch it up
• Make a tote bag from a t-shirt
• Make upcycled planters

Celebrate the beautiful diversity of the plants and animals we share our planet with on World Wildlife Day.

Activities to try:

• Explore on a nature reserve.
• Complete the Earth Tribe Award (Squirrels, beavers, cubs, Scouts & Explorers)
• Make a feeding station for birds.

Celebrate engineering achievements that are driving sustainability. Find out more information about World Engineering Day or through the UNESCO website.

Activities to try:

• Make Da Vinci's unbelievable bridge
• Build the best bridge
• Make the perfect sand castle

Holi is the popular Hindu festival of colours. It celebrates love, colour, and the triumph of good over evil.

Activities to try:

• Celebrate with a colourful scavenger hunt
• Make some colourful bunting
• Paint fireworks with a flick
• Make some perfect pakoras

Celebrate the magic of books and reading on World Book Day. Who will you dress up as?

Activities to try:

• Show how you care for your books.
• Create a cover for your favourite book.
• Design your own comic book
• Craft a monster bookmark

Unplug from your devices for the day, or why not try and take it one step further and unplug from electricity all together.

Activities to try:

• Plant your own trees
• Create an adventure scrapbook
• Screen-time switch off challenge
• Go on a mindfulness walk

Disabled athletes from across the globe will display their skill and determination in sports like skiing, snowboarding, and ice hockey at the Winter Paralympics in Italy.

Activities to try:

• Get warmed up with a snow sports warm up.
• Make your own snow with Do you want to build a snowman?
• Prepare for an icy adventure in Snow go zones.
• Try some chilly winter sports.

Get experimenting, get building, get making and get messy on British Science Week, this year the theme is 'Curiosity: what's your question?'. We even have some pre-made plans to help inspire you! 

Activities to try:

• Take on a boat building challenge
• Power a lightbulb using potato energy
  
• Make a mini bow and arrow
• Ask big questions about science

Celebrate women's achievement and tackle bias on International Women's Day with our International Women's Day activities.

Activities to try:

• Amy Johnson's air races paper plane challenge.
• Make a suffrage rosette.
• Learn about Mae Jemison and build your own recycled rocket jet pack.
• Reflect on unconscious bias in Describe and draw 

Take part in the Great British Spring Clean.

Activities to try:

• Explore the effect litter can have on wildlife with Banding together
• Go on a litter pick
• Find out how long rubbish takes to break down in Think outside the trash
• Get growing with recycled planters

Whether it's the mathematical number or the food, celebrating Pi day will brighten your day by at least 3.14%!

Activities to try: 

• Solve some problems through math and technology
• Go for a spotting-walk to see math and technology all around you

What questions do you want to ask? What answers do you have? Explore your philosophical ideas by using some of our activities and big questions from the Royal Institute of Philosophy. 

Activities to try:

• Play 20 questions
• Play I wonder why
• Try if you could read my mind

Take time to say thank you to an important person in your life. Whether it's a parent or carer, aunt, grandparent, sibling, friend or another person who supports you.

Activities to try:

• Create light up cards with LED's celebrate
• Celebrate different families with Diversity in nature
• Make some handprint cards

Celebrate the joy of bubbles and discover the wonder of them.

Activities to try:

• Make your own bubble wand
• Try some bubble wrapping

Celebrate neurodiversity and take part in some activities to help everyone learn about them. You can find out more information on the Neurodiversity Celebration Week website.

Activities to try:

• Have a go at interesting interactions
• Learn about unspoken rules
• Discover how you see the world
• Try what would you do

St Patrick's Day remembers Ireland's patron saint. It's now evolved into a global celebration of Irish culture.

Activities to try:

• Bake Irish soda bread
• Try St Patrick's Day yoga
• Play Crossing the Giant's Causeway

Eid celebrates the end of the month of fasting and spending time with family, friends and the local community.

Activities to try:

• Make some biscuit moons
• Bake some baklava
• Make an Eid lantern
• Try our five pillars of Islam quiz

Celebrate the Spring equinox, which is the beginning of astronomical spring in the northern half of our planet. 

Activities to try:

• Grow sunflowers
• Make your own Seed paper
• Learn about seasonal fruits and vegetables

Take a moment to promote happiness and wellbeing for everyone on International Day of Happiness.

Activities to try:

• Gratitude scavenger hunt
• Spread a message of kindness 
• Explore the fundamentals of happiness in The pyramid 

Support our planet on the lead up to Earth Hour. It's a time when millions of people around the world switch off their lights to help the planet.

Activities to try:

• Learn about light pollution
• Give light painting a go
• Discover morse code in Moonlit morse
• Try Night hiking