As the Weather Changes

I certainly don't feel ready for the weather to change this much.

We have snow on the ground.  My little ones were so excited with the change and were anxious to get out and play in it so that's what we did.  

I think I need to get a new outlook about snow like they have lol.

We have been watching the geese fly south so that's how we started our creative week.

Then, we went on to talk about animals that were nocturnal.

Simple bird craft using a spoon as the head and tail.

Simply cut out the bird shape (shown here in the black), cut a small slit in the base and slide in the spoon.  These also make good birds for creating a mobile.

We glued on some circles and squares as those are shapes we are working on.

Owls

Here are some super easy little owls we made using part of a paper towel roll.

Just bend and tuck the top down to create the ears of the owl.

We talked about what owls liked to eat, how they hunted in the night and there was a lot of hooting going on in the house that day.

Little foxes.

Again, using part of a paper towel roll covered with some brownish paper.  We added the features and a pom-pom nose.  The kids did a little puppet show with them...gotta love when the creative carries over to some dramatic play too.

Sleeping Foxes

This cute template is so easy.  Just print it out and let the kids colour.  To extend this activity, you could create a little den for the fox to sleep in.  

We also talked about how they are nocturnal and sleep in the day, hunt in the night.

here's the link:

http://krokotak.com/2019/10/paper-fox-2/

Cute hedgie.

Finally, we created a cute little hedgehog.  

Here are the instructions:

http://krokotak.com/2018/09/hedgehogs-2/

Well that's it for this week.