Owl Learning Activities for Kids

November 15, 2025 by Sarah White 1 Comment

I don’t know why certain animals are associated with different seasons for me, but owls are decidedly a fall animal. So let’s learn more about owls!

First you should know that there are lots of different kinds of owls, which you can investigate with this free printable form Homeschool of 1. It has an already colored version and a plain one that kids can color and fill in the blanks with the kind of animal that is shown.

Talk about the life cycle of an owl and put the stages in the right order with this cut and paste printable from Living Life and Learning. You can also grab more owl science worksheets and printables from Homeschool Happiness, which includes a fact sheet, life cycle, parts of the owl and more.

Playing for Hours has free owl activities as well, including matching cards for nocturnal animals, learning about nocturnal and diurnal animals, what animals eat and more. That link talks more about what is included and how to use it; you can download from here.

Organized Homeschooler has another free set of owl learning printables including a lot of things to help you if you do an owl pellet investigation. I don’t know why I needed to know this, but you can in fact buy owl pellets on Amazon. My daughter really loved this activity and even kept some of the bones she found in her pellets.

While you’re working with owl pellets you can also listen to the calls of different owls on the Audubon website.

Simple Everyday Mom has some owl themed worksheets that also deal with writing and recognizing the letter o, which is perfect for younger kids (there’s also a parts of the owl worksheet).

The Printable Princess has another parts of the owl printable, but the real reason I’m sharing this link is because of the adorable owl snack made out of a Rice Krispie treat.

Learn about owl vision and make a cute set of owl binoculars from Acorns and Aprons. You can of course find a ton of owl crafts out there but I also wanted to share this 3D coloring page from Easy Peasy and Fun because it’s so cute!

3D Paper Owls [Lesson Plans]

Cork Owls Tutorial [Felting]

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Stacy Young says
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 pm
Owls hold a special place in my life as my mother has collected them since I was a child! Thank you for sharing this wonderful article to teach old and new students alike!

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Books About Bugs Through the Seasons

Growing Up Ladybug and How to Become a Butterfly are both by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao, and they came out at the same time and are on similar themes, so let’s look at them together.

Growing Up Ladybug is narrated by Mariella, a seven-spot ladybug. She talks about the parts of a ladybug, where they live, different kinds of ladybugs, why humans love them, their defenses against predators and the life cycle of a ladybug.

The drawings are cute if not always scientifically accurate, it’s not in such a way that’s likely to confuse kids (who probably already know that ladybug mamas don’t push their larval babies around in strollers, for instance.

It’s a good general description of the life cycle of a lady bug and why we like having them around.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

Similarly, How to Become a Butterfly covers the life cycle of a butterfly, starting with caterpillars eating burning nettle leaves. (Here Amanda is the narrator.) The book talks about a few of the more than 18,000 daytime butterflies in the world as well as other creatures that live in the meadow (there’s that ladybug again, along with crickets, bees and other bugs).

It also covers some of the enemies of caterpillars like wasps and spiders, and the defenses that caterpillars use to try to prevent being eaten. It illustrates how caterpillars grow and change as they molt and prepare to pupate, and what a caterpillar looks like before and while it is forming its chrysalis. And while the book uses the word metamorphasis it doesn’t really talk about what happens between the caterpillar forming a chrysalis and the butterfly hatching.

This butterfly is a peacock butterfly, and once it hatches the book covers the parts of a butterfly and the life cycle. It also talks about nocturnal moths (though it says nocturnal butterflies are “usually called moths” when moths are actually a different species) and what butterflies do at night.

I’m maybe a little hard on this book because my daughter is a butterfly expert from way back, but it is still cute and good for the very basic basics of the butterfly life cycle.

Both books would be fun additions to your bookshelf for younger kids starting to learn about different animals or who have an interest in insects.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

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