Squirrels, Part 1

Introductory Facts

Watch a one-minute video, "Fun Facts for Kids about Squirrels", and a four-minute video, "How Do Squirrels Find the Food they Hide?"

Activity 1

Go out and collect acorns, leaves, and twigs.

Curriculum areas: E03a, E03b, S07b, R09b

Activity 2

Using your acorn collection from before, or various nuts if you weren't able to find anything:
- sort and count the collection
- look at them under a magnifying glass, looking for bite marks
- describe the differences between the items - big, little, smooth, rough
- make patterns with the different items
- estimate how many of each you can hold in one hand, then try and count them
 

Curriculum areas: M04a, M03a, R09b, M01b, M02b, M02c

Lunch Snack

Make peanut butter and rice cracker squirrel faces, and use a squirrel cookie cutter to make fruit kebabs on the side.

Curriculum areas: S13b, S13c

Activity 3

Make a squirrel feeder.

Curriculum areas: E02a, E02c

Activity 4 

Play acorn bingo: draw a grid each, and take turns rolling a dice to see how many nuts you can put on it; the first person to cover all the squares wins

There are lots more squirrel and acorn activities here!