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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Celebrate Inventor’s Day by Learning about Inventors

Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.

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