International Nurses Day Worksheets for Kids (Ages 3–5) – Helper Activities
Age Group: 3–6 years No. of Pages: 11 Format: Printable PDF
International Nurses Day is on 12 May. This 11-page printable pack helps children aged 3–6 learn what nurses do and say thank you, with tool matching, tracing, a thank-you card, a maze and counting.
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About This Worksheet
Nurses look after us when we are unwell. Learning about their work helps children feel less worried about doctor and hospital visits.
Children match nurse tools to their names, tick what a nurse does, trace Thank You, Nurse, find the nurse among helpers, find caring words, cut out a Nurses Day card, help a nurse reach the hospital, cut and paste a nurse’s cap and stethoscope, count and colour, and match same tools.
Activities in This Pack
- Nurse’s tools match-up: tools and names
- What does a nurse do? Look and tick
- Thank you, nurse: trace and colour
- Find the nurse among community helpers
- Caring words search (care, help, kind, nice, hug, smile)
- Happy Nurses Day card: cut and fold
- Help the nurse reach the hospital: maze
- Dress the nurse: cut and paste
- Count and colour
- Nurse’s tool match-up: find the same
Skills Your Child Practises
- Community helpers
- Health vocabulary
- Tracing
- Matching
- Counting
- Scissor skills
How to Use This Worksheet
- Play doctors and nurses with a toy kit.
- Give the card to a nurse you know.
- Talk about what happens at a check-up.
- Do the cutting pages with an adult nearby.
- Name each tool on the matching pages.
What’s Next?
Next in the May calendar is International Day of Light (16 May). For more themed days, see our General Knowledge worksheets.
Where This Worksheet Fits
International Nurses Day (12 May) is one of fourteen May days in the IdeazSuper themed-day collection. Use the packs in date order to plan a full month of activities:
- Labour Day (1 May): community helpers and their tools
- World Tuna Day (2 May): tuna, sea life and counting to ten
- World Laughter Day (first Sunday of May): smiles, silly faces and patterns
- Anti-Bullying Day (4 May): kindness and naming feelings
- World Red Cross Day (8 May): helping others and the red cross
- Mother’s Day (second Sunday of May): love for mum and a handprint bouquet
- International Nurses Day (12 May): this pack
- International Day of Light (16 May): light sources and shadows
- World Hypertension Day (17 May): heart-healthy habits
- International Museum Day (18 May): art, history and museum manners
- World Day for Cultural Diversity (21 May): flags, homes and cultures
- International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May): plants, animals and their homes
- World Turtle Day (23 May): turtles, counting and patterns
- World No Tobacco Day (31 May): clean air and healthy lungs
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Frequently Asked Questions
When is International Nurses Day?
International Nurses Day is on 12 May, Florence Nightingale’s birthday.
How can the pack help nervous children?
Learning what nurses do and the tools they use makes health visits feel more familiar.
How many pages are in the pack?
The International Nurses Day pack has 11 printable pages.
What do I need?
A printer, pencils and crayons. Some pages also need child-safe scissors and glue.
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Looking for more themed days? Browse all our General Knowledge worksheets for preschool and kindergarten, with printable packs for special days across the year.