All About Nuts
April 18th, 2012 | 
Author: Fall is a fun time to learn about squirrels and nuts. Today my boys attended a class at our children’s museum called “All About Nuts”.
First the teacher made sure no one had any nut allergies (very important!). Next she showed the children a variety of nuts and had them feel each nut and describe what they saw. She taught them the name of each nut. Each child got to bring home a small bag of nuts.
Next she had the children go on a “nut hunt”. The children searched for small pictures of nuts the teacher had placed around the room.
The children next heard a story about a squirrel, made a squirrel puppet, and sang a song about squirrels. They got to bring home some squirrel coloring pages.
It was a lot of fun! A great way to spend a fall day.
I searched around online to find you some squirrel resources to do a squirrel lesson with your child. I found some really cute free squirrel-themed coloring pages you can download for your child to color.
If you would like to do some work with numbers and counting, here are some fun acorn numbers worksheets.
Books about squirrels:
- The Busy Little Squirrel
by Nancy Tafuri
- How Do You Know It’s Fall?
by Allan Fowler
- A Squirrel’s Tale
by Richard Fowler
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