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.

Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins.

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world.

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears.

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more.

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake.

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more.

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.

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