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Conservation Kids

Activities, Stories and Science for Kids

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Feeling stuck inside?  Why not bring the outdoors in and explore the exciting world of nature through science, crafts, songs, and stories?  Or take a look through your window, a step into your backyard or onto your balcony, or a stroll through your neighbourhood to discover some signs of the season.

Choosing Your Adventure!

Choose the age grouping that best matches you! 

Early Years and Young Elementary

Middle and Older Elementary

Printable Colouring Pages

Bog Colouring Sheet
Bird friendly backyard colouring sheet
Monarch lifecycle colouring sheet
Orange Butterfly 2

LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA

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Foldable bird guide

Kid's Birding Checklist

Print and fold to create your birding pocket booklet for Lynde Shores Conservation Area.  How many birds can you identify?  How many of each can you find?  Please remember to only feed the songbirds only seeds and take home your extra seeds, because the birds are amazing at finding everything they need in nature!

Early Years and Young Elementary

Early Years

HEARING WITH DEER EARS
 

Take a walk around your neighbourhood and look for signs of spring.  Choose somewhere to stop and listen.
 

Make  'deer ears' by cupping your hands behind your ears to help you hear better.  How many different sounds can you hear?  Remove your deer ears and see if you can still hear the same number of sounds.
 

Did you know that deer have excellent hearing and can even turn their ears to hear sounds behind them?  Can you wiggle your ears?  What is your favourite sound?
 

White tailed deer fawn

A SNACK FOR YOU AND THE BIRDS

Make a biodegradable bird feeder by cutting an orange in half and eating the inside of the orange with a spoon.  Carve out the remaining bits to create a smooth bowl.  Poke three holes in the sides  around the top, tie a string through each hole and join the strings above the half orange. Fill with bird seed and hang from a tree.

Don't have oranges?  Create a bird feeder by recycling a plastic pop bottle with Ontario EcoSchools. 

Plastic bottle bird feeder diagram showing a string at the top, a stick and seeds inside and a square ten centimeter opening cut in the side

Source: Ontario EcoSchools

SHAPES IN NATURE

Make a shapes bracelet, then head outside!  What do you spy? 

Young boy holding a pipecleaner ring with several different coloured shapes attached

Find out how to make a Tangram Puzzle.  What winter nature can you create?

Source: Project Learning Tree

'MY SNAIL' SCAVENGER HUNT

Colour in your snail as you explore your neighbourhood.  What things are too hard to find in the winter?  Why?

My snail scavenger hunt

Source: Toronto District School Board, Outdoor Education Schools

THE CATERPILLAR SONG
(Tune: Eensy Weensy Spider)

The eensy weensy caterpillar climbed up on a leaf. (use finger to inch along like a caterpillar)

He spun a cocoon and then he went to sleep (spin hands around each other and lay head down)

While he was sleeping he dreamed that he could fly (wave hands like wings)

When he woke up, he was a butterfly!

Make your own butterfly!

Butterfly made from a coloured coffee filter and pipecleaners

Source: Preschool Powel Packets, preschoolpowolpackets.blogspot.com

Watercolor Butterfly 2
Watercolor Butterfly 14
Watercolor Butterfly 8

TRANSFORMERS

When is your birthday?  Most wild animals have their birthday in the spring!  Some baby animals look very similar to their parents (only cuter), while others are like transformers and go through big changes called metamorphosis. 

What do you think you will look like when you grow up?  Birds, butterflies and frogs all start as eggs. Can you colour, cut out the pictures and place them in order? Ask an adult to help you create a flip book for each animal. 
  

A poster with a labelled baby black swallowtail, common green darner, American robin, spotted slamander, luna moth, and common five-lined skink all with air bubbles to what they will look like as adults

Source: Sheri Amsel, exploringnature.org

Are you my mother worksheet
Egg


See if you can match the chicks that are ready to leave their nest with their mothers.

BUZY BEE

Bees help plants make fruit from their flowers by carrying yellow powder called pollen from flower to flower as they search for sweet, tasty nectar.  Most of the native bees in Ontario live by themselves and nest in the ground. 

Metal can that is open at one end and filled with rolled paper and sticks
PIne Tree Branch
bee at the entrance of a forked tunnel that has many little chambers off of it with one bee larvae in each compartment


Some native bees also lay their eggs in hollow plant stems.  Ask an adult to help you make a bee hotel and check out this