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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Resources for Learning about Squirrels

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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