Nature Explorer's club--squirrels

I had a hard time figuring out what to do with squirrels for the Nature explorer's club, but here's what we did:

First, we read "Those darn squirrels!" by Adam Rubin while sitting around a pretend campfire roasting marshmallows and seeing pretend squirrels all around us (hey, it's all I could come up with, it's too rainy here). They really liked this though! And, they got real creative with the kinds of squirrel's they saw. We sat on the pillows, and laughed while...

Reading this story....It's very cute:

Then we gathered the acorns from our nature box (a box we put all the stuff we collect on nature walks):

And rolled the acorns in some brown paint and then rolled the brown painted acorn all over a piece of paper:

Green flyer rolling his with his finger:

My 3rd grader discovered the inside of an acorn, she was surprised to find something inside:

Then my cuties colored a picture of a squirrel with brown and gray:

Here are all the painted rolled around acorns in the box after they were done:

A notebooking page about squirrels to put in her nature book was included in Pink flyer's workboxes last week. But, she still has yet to do it, we've had some things come up and she wasn't able to finish her boxes on Friday or today.

We are also going to cut out the squirrels that they colored and put feather's on them like the squirrels in the book did. They disquised themselves as birds so that the old man would like them. We just haven't gotten around to it yet.

That was fun, I would have liked to do more observing and outside stuff, but the weather here isn't always right. To see what others did about squirrels for nature club go here.