Pliny’s Allee : Tower Hill Botanical Garden, by Elizabeth Thomsen via flickr

Arbor Day is celebrated each year on last Friday in April. This year Arbor Day is on April 26th.

• National Arbor Day Foundation — Information from the official Arbor Day site.
• Today in History: Arbor Day — This page from the Library of Congress American Memory project brings together some interesting historical photographs, posters and other items related to Arbor Day
• Trees — The famous poem by Joyce Kilmer
• Interational Society of Arboriculture — Events, publications, research and more.
• American Forests — The Web site of the oldest nonprofit conservation organization in the United States has news and information, online access to American Forests’ Magazine, a carbon footprint calculator and much more.
• Arbor Day Crafts — Some ideas for children from Enchanted Learning
• Arbor Day — Coloring and craft ideas for kids from the Kaboose website
• Arbor Day Activities — Coloring pages, crafts for kids, word searches from the Apples4TheTeacher website
• Arbor Day Lessons and Teacher Resources– A variety of lesson plans primarily for grades K-6 with a selection of videos about trees from Hot Chalk’s Lesson Plans Page
• Arbor Day Lesson Plans — Lesson plans for all grade levels from the Lesson Planet site.