Mother's Day Activities
Easy to Do
Mother’s Day Crafts
Mother's Day Coloring Pictures
Origins of Mother's Day
History of
Mother's Day
Billy Bears Mother’s
Day Crafts
Greeting Cards for
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day Greeting
Cards
Pictures
to Print Out and Color for Mother’s Day
Easy-To-Make Mother's Day Crafts & Gifts
Mother’s Day Clip Art
Victorian Clipart for Mother’s Day
History of Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day Page –
Billy Bear
Greeting Cards for
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day Greeting
Cards
Pictures to Print Out and Color
for Mother’s Day
Easy-To-Make Mother's Day
Crafts & Gifts
Activities for Kids –
Mother’s Day
The Story of Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day at
akidsheart.com
Mother’s Day Celebration
at Blackdog
Rexanne’s Mother’s
Day Site
Mother’s Day Crafts from
Enchanted Learning
Mother’s Day Crafts for
Kids
Arts and Crafts for
Mother’s Day
Recipes and Crafts for
Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day from
the Holiday Spot
Everything Mother’s Day
– Ideas, Crafts and More
Pitter Patter Craft Library for
Mother’s Day
Auntie
Annie’s Crafts for Mother’s Day
Billy Bears Mother’s Day
Crafts
Angie’s Mother’s Day
Crafts
Activities for Kids for
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day Arts and
Crafts
Blackdogs Mother’s Day
Celebration
Mother's Day Poem and Butterfly
Mother's Day
Crafts
Garden Rock Mother's Day
Gift Craft
Arts and Crafts for
Mother’s Day
Makestuff Mother’s Day
Arts and Crafts
Activities for Kids -
Mother’s Day Banner
Activities for Kids -
Mother’s Day Cup Insert
Mother’s Day Dinner -
Cooking for Kids
Mother's Day Clipart
Mother's Day Poems
Keep an eye on the
calendar and don't forget a gift for Mom this year.
Mothers Day gifts are very important and you need to leave time to
find the perfect gift.
Gourmet gift baskets are a great idea for a gift and be the best
gift Mom
ever received.
Other Arts and Crafts for Kids
Butterfly Picture
Butterfly and Flower (Spring Picture)
Funology - The Science of Having Fun
Rainy Day Activities
A Bear with a Butterfly (Spring Picture)
Butterfly Spring Picture
May Calendar
May 1
1707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of
Great Britain
1840
1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1841
1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence MO for California
In 1844,
Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
In 1889,
Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
In 1964, 1st
BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
In 1971,
Amtrak Railroad begins operation
In 1986, Tass reports
Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
May 2
In 1497,
John Cabot departs to North-America
In 1670, King Charles II charters
Hudson Bay Company
In 1885, "Good
Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
In 1887,
Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
In 1890,
Territory of Oklahoma created
May 3
In 1494,
Columbus discovers Jamaica
In 1621,
Francis Bacon accused of bribery
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
May 4
In 1776, Rhode Island declares independence from England
In 1979,
Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England
May 5
In 1925,
John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
May 7
In 1847, American Medical Association
organizes (Philadelphia)
In 1914,
US Congress establishes mother's day
In 1888, George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
How to Make and Use a Pinhole Camera
In 1960, USSR announces
Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
May 8
In 1541, Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
In 1794,
US Post Office established
May 9
In 1899, Lawn mower patented
May 10
In 1503, Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
In 1924,
J Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
May 11
1330 Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by
Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire
1751 1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvania
Hospital)
1858
Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
1947 BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire, Akron OH
1949 1st
Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)
May 13
1568 Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside
1934 Great
dustbowl storm
Dustbowls and their Damage
Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS)
1930s Dustbowl
The Dustbowl During the Great Depression
1942 Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
May 14
1607
1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown VA
1702
England & Netherlands declares war on France & Spain (War of the Spanish
Succession)
1796 1st
smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
1804
Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for the Pacific Coast
1853
Gail Borden patents process for
condensed milk
1904 1st Olympics in the US are held (St Louis)
1973 US Supreme court approves equal rights to
females in military
May 15
1602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1618
Johannes Kepler discovers
harmonics law
1862
Department of Agriculture created
1940 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (US)
1972
George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by
Arthur Bremer in Laurel MD
May 16
1568
Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
Mary Stuart, Queen Of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots House, Jedburgh
Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Stuart, the Story
1817
Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1866 Congress authorizes nickel
5¢ piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1920
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome
1939
Food stamps are 1st issued
May 18
1756 England declares war on France
1803 Britain declares war on France after
General Napoleon Bonaparte continues
interfering in Italy & Switzerland
1804
Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France
1896 US Supreme court affirms "separate
but equal" policy (Plessy
v Ferguson)
1933
Tennessee Valley Act (TVA)
Act signed by FDR, to build dams
1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal
status under an amnesty program
May 19
1643
Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United
Colonies of New England
1749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle
Ohio Valley
1862
Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1884
Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1898 Post Office authorizes use of postcards
May 20
1310 Shoes were made for both right & left feet
1830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1861 North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union
1892
George Sampson patents clothes dryer
1926 Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes
1926
Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
1927 At 7:40 AM,
Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris
1932
Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
May 21
0427 -BC-
Plato
1804
Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
1840
New Zealand became a British colony
1861 North Carolina is 10th state to secede from Union
1881
American Red Cross founded by
Clara Barton
1914 Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota
May 22
1570
1st atlas, with 70 maps, published
1803 1st public library opens (Connecticut)
1807 Former
Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond VA
(acquitted)
May 23
1922
Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1939
Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1977 Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of
Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
May 24
1846 General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey in
Mexican War
1856
Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas
1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
May 25
1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson US, essayist/philosopher was born
1927 Henry Ford stops producing
Model T car (begins Model A)
1961
JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
1964
Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation
unconstitututional
May 26
1805
Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
May 27
1844
Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
1919 Charles Strite patents
pop-up toaster
1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape
1937
Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated
May 28
1660
George I king of England (1714-27)
1539
Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
1926 US Customs Court created by congress
1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate
May 29
1630
Charles II king of England (1660-85) was born
1739
Patrick Henry was born
1826 Ebenezer Butterick inventor (tissue paper dress pattern) was born
1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state
1861
Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law
May 30
1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for
3rd trip to America
1821
James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1896 1st car accident occurs,
Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1872
Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1966 300 US airplanes bomb
North Vietnam
May 31
1790 US
copyright law enacted
1868 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton OH
1879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors
1955 Supreme Court orders
school integration "with all deliberate speed"
Other Interesting Links
May Issue of National
Geographic
Information Please Almanac for Kids
Leonardo's Science Almanac
Celebrity Almanac
Farmer's Almanac
The Change Maker
Math Baseball
Escape from Knab
Endangered Animal Stories
by 5th Graders
Geysers, Fumaroles and Hot Springs
Northern Lights
Aurora Borealis
Aurora
Borealis Pictures from Space
Cloud Types -
Has great photos of clouds
Brain Bashers
Java and Non Java Online Math Flashcards
Math Baseball
Puzzles at Period.com
Primary Games
Word Problems for Kids
Meteorology Cloud Boutique
Welcome to the Greatest Places
Great Wall of China
Stately Knowledge
Asthma
Tutorial for Kids
Science Daily
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