Observing LGBTQIA+ Pride Month With Kids
In the United States, June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month. If you’re looking for ways to involve your kids, here are a few ideas…
Art & Craft Projects for Pride Month
- Download this wonderful FREE list of LGBTQIA+ artists handout to use with your students
- Explore identity, intersectionality, and expression through mark-making with artist Shantell Martin and try her Make Your Mark project via The Denver Art Museum
- The Keith Haring Foundation has dedicated an entire website, Haring Kids, to lesson plans you can search by subject, grade, or supply
- Use one of the art lessons from the Andy Warhol Museum
- Watch five LGBTQ Art Stories or try this set of art activities from Tate Modern
- Use this Harvey Milk Pride flag art lesson or something from the full library of free art lesson plans centered around gender stereotypes, self-empowerment, acceptance, advocacy, personal expression, and more from Anti-Racist Art
- Try this “Expressing the Individual” art activity for kids from the National Gallery of Art
- Visit the Smithsonian’s Pride Family Zone for crafts and coloring pages
- Stop by Pinterest’s Beyond Blue and Pink board for lots of kids’ Pride month craft ideas (along with other good resources)
Pride Month children’s book LISTs
Our Favorite Places to Find Great Reading Recommendations for Kids
- Visit Mombian’s extensive database of LGBTQ+ family books
- Browse GLSEN’s Rainbow Library for lesson plans and activities to accompany books
- Visit Gender Inclusive Classrooms’ Gender Inclusive Book Lists
- Find a new book and follow all of the latest inclusive KidLit news at Rainbow Reads
Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Stories & Authors: Read-Aloud Videos
Read along to Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer
Read along to My Shadow is Pink by Scott Stuart
Read along to Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle by Nina LaCour
Read along to Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate
Read along to Auntie Uncle: Drag Queen Hero by
Read along to Sparkle Boy by Lesléa Newman
Read along to Calvin by JR Ford
Read along to Sewing the Rainbow: A Story About Gilbert Baker by Gayle E. Pitman
Read along to Julian Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Read along to Bunnybear by Andrea J. Loney
Lesson Plans and Educational Resources
- Welcoming Schools has an amazing library of LGBTQ+ Inclusive Lessons and Teaching Resources you can use at home or in a classroom.
- Visit PFLAG’s Loving Families library of articles
- Browse Amaze.org’s Educator’s Toolkit
- For activities you can use to discuss identity and foster gender-expansive learning, visit Welcoming Schools’ list of lesson plans here
- Find LGBTQIA+ education resources from the Stonewall National Education Program
- Download free lesson plans from Teaching LGBTQ History
- Explore the LGBTQ+ history free lesson plans from One Institue
- Visit GLSEN’s educator resources
- Download free lesson Plans from Gender Inclusive Classrooms
Music & Podcasts
Put together a Songs of Pride playlist
Listen Now
Listen to Love Makes a Family from Sesame Street
Listen to The Meaning of Pride ft. Nina West from Nickelodeon
COOKING WITH KIDS
- Read or make something from one of these LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books About Baking
- Cook the rainbow! As much as I love the bold, colorful pancakes, cupcakes, and more, if you’re going for quick and easy, try one of these kid-friendly recipes that use naturally-rainbow-colored ingredients…
More Resources
- Visit Common Sense Media’s lists of movies with LGBTQ+ characters and TV shows with LGBTQ+ characters to find age-appropriate inclusive streaming shows and flicks.
- Queer Kid Stuff is a YouTube channel that has a wonderfully engaging and well-produced collection of videos.
- Download free printable EduGuides from It Gets Better for hands-on activities and lessons
- Grab this free printable Pride coloring page
Celebrating diversity ALL year
National Black History Month
OBSERVED IN FEBRUARY
National Women’s History Month
OBSERVED IN MARCH
ARAB American Heritage Month
OBSERVED IN APRIL
Asian American Heritage Month
OBSERVED IN MAY
Jewish American Heritage Month
OBSERVED IN MAY
LGBTQ+ History PRIDE Month
OBSERVED IN JUNE
NATIONAL Disability Pride Month
OBSERVED IN JULY
Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month
OBSERVED IN SEPTEMBER
Native American Heritage Month
OBSERVED IN NOVEMBER
