Juneteenth Printables for Kids

May 25, 2026 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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.

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Celebrating Terry Fox Day

In our continuing exploration of lesser known holidays, let’s take a look at Terry Fox Day, which is probably one you know if you’re Canadian.

Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete who had a leg amputated at age 18 because of cancer and then did a cross-country run to raise awareness and funding for cancer research. He was born July 28, 1958, and the first Monday in August is celebrated as Terry Fox Day in Manitoba.

Fox is considered a kind of folk hero in Canada despite the difficulties of traveling across Canada on foot (no one on his team spoke French, for example, the weather was often bad and cars would force him off the road) and the low number of donations at the beginning of his run. He ultimately had to end his run after 143 days and 3,339 miles, or 5,373 km, because his cancer had returned and spread to his lungs, but he raised $1.7 million, and a telethon a week after he ended his run raised $10.5 million.

Check out some Terry Fox quotes collected by My Little Desire. You can learn more in this video from CBC Kids, and listen to the Terry Fox song illustrated by a first grade class.

Twinkl has a bunch of Terry Fox related activities in both English and French, including an activity pack with a maze and word search, a coring challenge, a fact sheet and coloring page.

Most of the resources I could find were at Teachers Pay Teachers, but you can learn more about the activity pack for grades 1-3 that Mrs. Bremer’s Class has made, which tells his story and has kids write things they learned and discuss why they think he is a hero.

Creative Classroom Core has a few paid resources include writing activities, reading comprehension and a Terry Fox fact book.

That Fun Reading Teacher has a K-2 singalong with a differentiated reader and activity to teach kids about him.

You can also celebrate Terry Fox Day by talking about what makes a person a hero and who the kids in your home or classroom think of as heroes. And if you’re Canadian, there are Terry Fox runs in more than 650 communities in September, so you can make plans to participate or cheer on the runners to remember his legacy.

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