Canada Day Activities for Kids

Celebrate Canada Day by learning more about Canada and doing some Canada themed activities. I’ve already featured Canada in our countries of the world posts, so you can go there are read all about it and come up with more activities from there. We also have a Canada coloring sheet in our nations of the world pack.

Grade Onederful is a Canada-based blog so it has lots of good ideas for celebrating Canada Day in the classroom. I love the idea to go on a walk to collect rocks so each child can build an inuksuk and also draw them (here’s more on inuksuks if you don’t know what they are). They also made paper plate beavers, illustrated the national anthem and more. You’ll find a printable pack in the post as well.

Happy Hooligans is another Canadian blogger with a fun collection of Canada Day crafts. It includes a God’s eye, shaker sticks, wind socks (shown here) and more you could make to celebrate whatever country you want.

Projects with Kids has a sweet printable wand craft for Canada Day with five maple leaf templates kids can cut out and color before making into a wand. They could also be a garland or used in other crafts if you like.

Homemade Heather has a cute Canada themed matching/memory game kids can play again and again.

I love a good sensory bin, and this one from Happy Toddler Playtime uses painted chickpeas in red and white to make a fun base for kids to play with. She also has a cute paper plate Canada flag craft.

If you’re looking for even more Canada themed crafts, East Coast Mommy has a great collection. I love the paper bag beaver puppet project.

More Canada activities:

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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