Bat Learning Activitites

We often think of bats as creepy creatures that we only consider during Halloween, but bats are such cool creatures that they deserve our respect and taking time to learn more about them.

If you need help with facts about bats to get you started, check out the free with email printable fact sheets and parts of a bat coloring booklet from Willa Bean and Co.

Learn about different kinds of bats and label the bats and the parts of the bat with these printables from Living Life and Learning. These are free when you share your email. Only Passionate Curiosity has bat printable worksheets that include anatomy, life cycle and journaling pages for bat facts and learning about different kinds of bats.

Homeschool of 1 also has cute printables showing different kinds of bats that kids can label.

I love these activities from Inspirational Laboratories where they have actual size photos for kids to measure and photos with items taped to them to represent the actual weight of the bat. Check out the post for the weights they used and more fun ideas.

If you want to go all in on bat learning, A Dab of Glue Will Do has a great paid printable pack for bats including life cycle, facts, bats can-have-are pages, sorting animals that are nocturnal or diurnal, bats vs. birds and more.

For less literal bat learning, practice tracing lines with these worksheets from Living Life and Learning.

And of course we can’t resist some bat crafts, so why not make a hanging bat with a little help from the printable bat wing template and instructions from Buggy and Buddy. These are so cute and easy to make. If you want something with more of a spooky Halloween twist, try the moon and bats salt painting idea shared by My PreK Box.

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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