Ideas and resources
My Kids Make submitted this post to Craft Gossip, but I didn’t have a chance to post it before Mother’s Day due to becoming a mother for a 3rd time! I love these bracelets, and I have actually made an ‘adult’ version before. My girls would love these, and if I were to receive this as a gift…I would be honored. My Kids Make also has a video tutorial on there as well!
After I wrote the other day all about hibernating animals, I came across another book that would be fun for a unit study on hibernation or animals in the winter.
Hiders Seekers Finders Keepers: How Animals Adapt in Winter by Jessica Kulekjian and Salini Perera shows different animals getting ready for winter. The hiders are animals like turtles, frogs, bees, chipmunks, bears, snakes and bugs, and the book shows all of them in the places and ways they like to spend wither, with a couple of sentences about each. For example we learn that carpenter ants make a substance called glycerol, which helps prevent them from freezanimals like squirrels that hide a future feast, or foxes who grow a warmer coat for winter.
The book includes lovely illustrations that show a dad anding.
Meanwhile the seekers like geese, elk and mule deer move around to find a better place to spend the winter. Of course butterflies and lots of other birds and insects do this, too. Keepers are daughter walking through the winter forest. In the end they find rabbit tracks, and there’s a guide to different animal tracks in the snow in the back of the book. There are also resources for further reading, documentaries to watch and websites to visit to learn more about the different animals featured in the book and how they get through the winter.
There is a lot of detail in the illustrations that can keep you talking beyond the facts on the page. Kids will have fun noticing animals that are hiding and what’s going on in the background of drawings.
This book is pretty, short but full of facts that will interest the animal lovers in your classroom or home and shows many different ways that animals can prepare for winter.
About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2022 by Kids Can Press, suggested retail price $19.99
[Photo: Kids Can Press]
I personally think you would appreciate the cardboard box jewelery more. simply cut long strips of cardboard into isosceles triangles (skinny not wide) and roll- then lacker. (or magazine/newspaper flyer)