Juneteenth Printables for Kids

Juneteenth is a celebration of the day (June 19, 1865) when the enslaved people of Texas learned that they had been freed. It is considered a second Independence Day and is a day of celebration in the Black community and beyond. Help kids learn about Juneteenth with these printables and activities.

First off, though, if you need to brush up on your Juneteenth history, check out this post that has links to resources from the National Museum of African American History and Culture and other places you can learn about the holiday and its history.

Blooming Brilliant Homeschoolers has good printable fact sheets you can share with your students or use for your own talking points when teaching about Juneteenth.

In the Playroom has a great Juneteenth coloring, fact and activity book that includes coloring pages, a dot to dot, word search and scramble, facts, notebooking pages and more.

Red Ted Art has a printable cootie catcher with facts about Juneteenth, and a blank one where kids can add their own facts or questions. (You can buy the printable from her Teachers Pay Teachers page.)

Puzzle Master Debbie on Etsy has a printable collection of Juneteenth activities including mazes, a word search, trivia and more. In all it includes 60 games for kids and adults to learn more about Juneteenth and Black history.

Crayola has a nice Juneteenth Freedom Day coloring page, and Homeschool of 1 has a color by number featuring the date of the announcement. They also have a word search and word scramble printable to help students learn. Get more Juneteenth coloring pages, including this one with the Juneteenth flag, from Direct Coloring.

Speaking of the Juneteenth flag, you can use a printable of the starburst from Crafting a Fun Life to help you make this paper plate version of the flat. And make sure to check out all their other Juneteenth craft ideas if you need more activities to do with your kids for Juneteenth. You’ll find a list if you scroll to the bottom of the page linked here.

Learning numbers actually involves a few different skills, from recognizing the shape of the number and knowing the word that goes with it to understanding one to one correspondence for counting and what order the numbers go in.

A lot of this is learned best through play and activities that get kids counting and tracing and otherwise interacting with numbers. These activities can help.

I specifically mentioned tracing above because of these number formation rhymes cards from Teaching Mama, which can be used in lots of ways to practice making the shapes of the numbers, including tracing, lining up items on the number shapes (and counting them!), using playdough to shape the numbers and so on. Each number has a little rhyme to help you remember how to make it, which is cute.

And speaking of playdough, you can find lots of playdough number mats with different themes for kids to use as they learn about numbers. Preschool Play and Learn, for example, has these cute apple themed ones that also teach one to one correspondence as you learn the numbers and count to 10.

Or use these tree-themed ones from Live Over Cs to form the numbers, count out items on a ten frame and place the correct number of items in the tree to match the number (do this with playdough, little buttons or whatever manipulatives you have on hand). Your little builders will also love these Duplo number mats from Life Over Cs, which allow you to shape the number out of blocks and count out the number of blocks that corresponds to each number.

I also love these mats from The Savvy Sparrow that include the number and the word you can trace with playdough or marker, showing how to count the number on your fingers, a tens frame and a number line.

Finger plays and counting songs are lots of fun for little ones, too, and Childhood 101 has a great collection of songs and rhymes having to do with numbers (as well as printable song cards you can use with them.

This cardboard roll number chain form Hands On As We Grow would be a fun addition to singing number songs or to use in other play and counting games. And we all love something easy to make with stuff we already have.

Older kids who already know the order of numbers can also use these connect the dot number printables from Fun Learning for Kids. Or use the shapes for playdough mats or to practice tracing even for kids who don’t know all the numbers in order yet.

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