Owl Learning Activities for Kids

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]

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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