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]

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

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