Acorns for the Squirrels

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Crafty Squirrels are Counting Acorns

Thanksgiving is coming and the squirrels are counting their acorns. Read tales of squirrels who are preparing for Thanksgiving. Make place mats, toilet paper tube squirrels and other Thanksgiving decorations.

What will the squirrels be thankful for and will they remember their manners at the Thanksgiving table? The squirrels are making nut bread and counting acorns to prepare for the feast.

Scurry on over and learn about squirrels and acorns...




Photo Credit: Squirrel with Acorn.
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The Squirrel's Thanksgiving

Acorns and Squirrels at Thankgiving Time

The Squirrel's ThanksgivingIn Steven Kroll's delightful tale, the squirrel family celebrates Thanksgiving with their cousins.

Buddy and Brenda Squirrel help their Mother prepare for the Thanksgiving Feast. They make decorations and count acorns. I wonder if they are a homeschooling family?

This loving family also learns to be thankful for each other and to appreciate having good manners.

As an extension of this book we will also be learning about Squirrels and Acorns. It is important for children to learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction so this unit study will also include facts about squirrels and explore such questions as Where do squirrels live? What do squirrels eat? What trees do squirrels prefer? Where do acorns come from? Can humans eat acorns? Come learn more about squirrels and the acorns they love to eat:
The Squirrel's Thanksgiving
Taking our modern lifestyles to heart, MobiStories was created to instill the love of reading in today's children.

A Squirrel Family Feast

Food for the Squirrels

Munching Squirrels Postcard postcard
Munching Squirrels Postcard by daphne1024
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The cousins are coming and the squirrel family is cooking up a storm. What kinds of foods do you think Brenda and Buddy Squirrel would like to help their mother make in preparation for Thanksgiving Dinner? What kinds of foods do wild squirrels eat? If we pretend to be squirrels, which kinds of foods might we want to eat?

Tales of Squirrels and Acorns

Squirrel and Acorn Story

The Calico Critters Squirrel Family make delightful props for a puppet show reenacting the tale of The Squirrel's Thanksgiving!

The Squirrel's Thanksgiving
Calico Critters Furbanks Squirrel Family


From Chatterer the Red Squirrel to Squirrel Nutkin children will love reading these fictional tales of Squirrels collecting acorns and preparing for winter.

The Squirrel children in the Squirrel's Thanksgiving make decorations and count acorns. Sara Squirrel is trying to find lost acorns.

After reading all these stories help the children write their own stories about squirrels.
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Squirrel Tales from the Green Forest

Happy Jack Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel

Flying Squirrels
Flying Squirrels
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Happy Jack Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel are tales by Thornton Burgess the well known Naturalist that presents facts and observations about squirrels with just enough fiction to keep children's imaginations alive and begging for more.

Most children will be able to read these easy Chapter Books by the end of First Grade but we have found that reading these books together promotes discussion and a better understanding of squirrels and the squirrel's habitat.
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Stuffed Squirrels and Acorns

A Plush Squirrel and Acorn for Snuggling

Squirrel with acorn
Plush Black Squirrel with Acorn 9"
Available on Amazon



Wikipedia tells us that the Black squirrel is a melanistic subgroup of the eastern grey squirrel. They are common in Midwestern North America and, in some places, outnumber the grey squirrels by a ratio of about ten to one.

Read about squirrels and acorns as you snuggle up with this cute little plush squirrel.
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Facts about Squirrels

Do Squirrels eat acorns?

Gray SquirrelWatching the Squirrels

Photo Credit: Toddler Looking Through the Window Available on AllPosters
An Eastern Gray Squirrel Eats a WalnutJohns, Chris Available on AllPosters



Squirrels are rodents. The Squirrel Family includes not only squirrels but also chipmunks, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, woodchucks, and marmots.

Set up a couple of chairs, a digital camera, paper and pencils at a table near the window. Children observe the squirrels, record their activities and take pictures of the squirrels.

During Writing Workshop the children can use these pictures and observations to write stories or factual accounts of the squirrel's activities.
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Squirrel Unit Studies

Squirrels use acorns for learning.

Squirrels and Acorns

Photo Credit: From the 1903 THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN BY BEATRIX POTTER
on Zorger, Public Domain


Child learn like little squirrels collecting acorns of knowledge with hands-on learning activities.
Acorns
Take the children on a nature walk and have them collect acorns. Games, songs, math and science related to squirrels and acorns.
How to Play Acorn and Squirrel.
The Acorn and Squirrel game demonstrates how important animals and plants are to each other. You can teach a fairly large group of young children how trees, animals and the earth all depend on each ot...
Squirrel Crafts and Activities
Lots of Squirrel activities for teaching young children.
Squirrels and their Habits
Books Used:
Earl the Squirrel by Don Freeman
Miss Suzy by Miriam YoungTimmy Tiptoes by Beatrix Potter
Fun With Nature by Boring, Burns, and Dendy

The Acorn People

Handicapped children are given the opportunity to go to a boyscout camp. The narrator is a councilor with no prior experience who learns not only to love those children but learns to see them as children, not as objects to be pitied.

In the story, the children start making acorn necklaces that serve as a way to show friendship and comradry about how to interact with their handicapped neighbors by having the Acorn People read aloud to them. Maybe Father Squirrel will read it to them after Thanksgiving Dinner.
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Stringing Acorns

Making Acorn People

Making Acorn People

Photo Credit: Acorn People
on Flickr, Creative Commons


You can make acorn necklaces by drilling holes in acorns and stringing them on stiff string. If you dip the end of the string in wax it keeps the string from unraveling.

To make this activity into a literacy center, the acorns could have letters painted on them and the children could string their spelling, vocabulary or high frequency words.
A Children's Workshop for Making Toys
As the child develops more hand control, she can begin to make chains and necklaces by stringing the nuts such as acorns on a cord.
Use of Native Craft Materials
A large needle was pressed through the acorns and a double strand of hea\y cotton thread was used for stringing them. They may be strung with or without the ...

Acorn Letters

A Squirrel's favorite way to learn letters.

Acorn Letters

Photo Credit: Letter Acorns
Available from Kate and Company


Matching upper and lower case letters or use to introduce the sounds of letters. Put the acorns in ABC order or match them to objects that begin with those letters that have been glued to squirrels.
Letter Acorns and other Alphabet Flannel Board Activities
Fun Educational Activities For The Classroom from Katie & Co. including the acorn letter activity above.

The Squirrel Children learn to write

Squirrel Shaped Chalkboard

Squirrel

Photo Credit: Squirrel
on The Wood Works of Cedar Springs
Used by permission


1. Cut out an outline of a squirrel and repaint it with black chalkboard paint or buy one from Wood Works of Cedar Springs.

2. Create a hollow tree or tree stump using an oatmeal box and paper mache. This will be used to store the Squirrel and leaf cards.

3. Write words related to the Squirrel and Acorn unit on Die Cut Oak Leaves.

4. Children pull out a leaf and write the word on the Squirrel Chalkboard.

Variation: One child pulls out the Oak Leaf Word and reads it to the other child who writes the word without looking and then they check to see that it is spelled correctly.

Possible words:

squirrel
acorn
oak
tree
autumn
fall

Children can practice handwriting or spelling words on the Squirrel Cutout.

Thank you Bob Chesley from The Wood Works of Cedar Springs for allowing me to use the above photo of the Squirrel Plywood Cutout.
The wood works of cedar springs, inc.
Squirrel Plywood Cutouts

Squirrel Words

Squirrel and Acorn Literacy Activities

Squirrel color word match

Photo Credit: Squirrel color word match
on Kelly's Kindergarten October Centers


Match the color word on each acorn with the color painted on the clothespins.

You could make this center self checking by putting color strips on the back of the folder to match the colors on the clothespins.
Kelly's Web Page
Squirrel color word match
Squirrel Acorn Alphabet Match
Match the upper and lower case letters.

Squirrel and Acorn Cards

Use clipart to create Squirrel and Acorn Cards

Squirrel and Acorn Cards

Photo Credit: Squirrel
From WPClipart



These would make wonderful cards for matching to the words they represent and then playing Concentration or Go Fish with them.

The more that children interact with words the easier it is for them to remember the words.

Squirrels eat not only acorns but also the nuts or seeds inside of pine cones. Pine cones are where pinenuts come from that taste so delicious in Italian cooking.
FIELD STUDIES pinecones and acorns
Four mini prints of pines cones and acorns.
Tree Clipart
Tree Clipart. Copyright-free images of Trees.

Squirrel Writings

Keep a diary of your squirrel activities...

Write every day in all subject areas. Write about the observations of squirrels outside the window. Write about the acorns you sort for math workjobs and write about the imaginary squirrels that go on adventures in the squirrel's doll house.
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Brown Squirrel Song

Bushy Tailed Squirrel
Brown Squirrel
Brown squirrel brown squirrel
Shake your bushy tail
Brown squirrel brown squirrel
Shake your bushy tail
Crinkle up your little nose
Stick a nut between your toes
Brown squirrel brown squirrel
Shake your bushy tail

Photo Credit: North American Red Squirrel
From Wikipedia

Little by Little, the Acorn Said

LITTLE BY LITTLE.

Acorn Sprout "Little by little," the acorn said,
As it slowly sank in its mossy bed,
"I am improving every day,
Hidden deep in the earth away."
Little by little each day it grew;
Little by little it sipped the dew;
Downward it sent out a threadlike root;
Up in the air sprung a tiny shoot,
Day after day, and year after year,
Little by little the leaves appear;
And the slender branches spread far and wide,
Till the mighty oak is the forest's pride.

Photo Credit: Acorn Sprout
From Clkr, Public Domain


"Little by little," said the thoughtful boy,
"Moment by moment, I'll well employ,
Learning a little every day,
And not misspending my time in play;
Whatever I do I will do it well.
Little by little, I'll learn to know
The treasured wisdom of long ago;
And one of these days, perhaps, will see
That the world will be the better for me."
A poem "Little by Little,the acorn said as it sank it roots in its bed? -
Where can I find a copy of this poem

Poetry of Squirrels and Acorns

Poetry for Science and Social Studies

The Wonderful Oak Tree
The Wonderful Oak Tree
Rignall, John
Available from Allposters


Poetry is a wonderful way to lead young children into topics of science and social studies.

To extend this poem:

1. Go for a walk in the woods and observe an oak tree. Compare it with other trees in the forest. Bring home a few leaves and acorns to put on the science table for observation.

2. Dry and press some oak leaves and other leaves. Attach them to index cards and play Go Fish or Concentration. Pictures of the full grown trees, bark and seeds could also be added.

3. Go to a lumberyard, sawmill, or furniture factory and learn about the different types of wood. Can you tell which kind of tree each board comes from? How can you tell?

4. Make a large Oak Tree on the bulletin board. Have children research items that are made from oak and hang labeled pictures of them from the branches.
Simple Truths in Verse for the Amusement and Instruction of Children at an Early Age

The Oak

by Mary Elliott

Oak Tree Observe, dear George, this nut is small;
     The Acorn is its name;
Would you suppose yon tree so tall
     From such a trifle came?

The Acorn, buried in the earth,
     When many years are past
Becomes the oak of matchless worth,
     Whose strength will ages last.

In Summer, pleasant is its shade,
     But greater far its use;
The wood which forms our ships for trade
     Its body can produce.

And many other things beside,
     I cannot now explain;
For where its merits have been tried,
     They were not tried in vain.

Photo Credit: Oak
on WPClipart, Public Domain

Poem: The Squirrel
The Squirrel

Anonymous

Whisky, frisky,
Hippity hop;
Up he goes
To the tree top!

Whirly, twirly,
Round and round,
Down he scampers
To the ground.

Furly, curly
What a tail!
Tall as a feather
Broad as a sail!

Where's his supper?
In the shell,
Snappity, crackity,
Out it fell.

Grocery List

sweet potatoes
marshmallows
cranberries
walnuts

MobiStories

Important!

Busy children are well behaved children.

The Squirrel's Thanksgiving

MobiStories like the Squirrel's Thanksgiving can be downloaded and read to your child when you can't.

Acorn and Squirrel Math Calendar

Oak Tree Bulletin Board

To turn your bulletin board into an interactive learning center, write math problems on the leaves and answers on the acorns. Cover the bulletin board with felt and the backs of the leaves and acorns with Velcro.

The children become little squirrels scurrying through the leaves and acorns to find matches which they put up on the bulletin board. After they have been checked for accuracy they can be pulled off and stored in a basket for the next group of children.or left scattered or the next squirrels to sort.
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Acorn Math

Count, sort and add the acorns.

Acorn counting

Photo Credit: Counting Acorns
on Flickr, Creative Commons


Take A Walk in the Woods and collect lots of acorns.

1. Spread the acorns out on the table and start to look at them carefully. Are they all the same?
2. As you start to notice differences, begin sorting them into groups. Be sure to label your piles.
3. Then count to see how many you have in each pile. Make a graph to show the number of acorns in each category.
4. Write about your discoveries in your math journal.

Inexpensive objects that can be used as math manipulatives include acorns, pine needles, leaves and so on.
Squirrel and Acorn Match
Match the squirrel with a number to that number of acorns.
Kelly's Web Page
Acorn counting--Students fill cups with the correct number of acorns.

Squirrels and Acorns for the Doll House

Squirrel Salt and Pepper Shakers

Salt and pepper shakers in the shapes of squirrels and acorns are a fun addition to the dollhouse. We sometimes use them as game pieces or math manipulatives.
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Go Nuts and Count the Acorns

Acorn Math



Take your cheeky chances on this quick playing dice game of nut gathering nuttiness. Pile up points by rolling the dice and adding up acorns, while avoiding any cars along the way. If you roll all squirrels, scurry to score as many nuts as you can before your opponents' dogs chase you away! The player with the most points wins. For 2-4 players, ages 8 and up.

To make this game even more hands-on and to help tactile learners understand the concepts of adding higher numbers we use abacuses for keeping track of the score.
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Measuring Acorns and Squirrels

Measuring AcornsMeasuring Squirrel Tracks

Photo Credit: Measuring an Acorn from Daphne Palomar
Photo Credit: Squirrel Tracks on Cement Sidewalk by Aydn Orstan from Snail's Tales - Used by permission


Cuisenaire Rods can be used to measure acorns and plush squirrels.

We have several plush squirrels of different sizes to measure.

Squirrel Tracks can also be measured.
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Making Needle Felted Acorns and Squirrels

Needle Felted Acorns

Needle felted acorns make wonder natural fiber math manipulatives. Use them for counting, sorting, adding and subtracting.
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More Math Manipulatives

Squirrels, Acorns and Counting Leaves

Squirrels, Acorns counting LeavesSquirrels, Acorns and Math ManipulativesSquirrels, Acorns and Counting Leaves

Acorns make wonderful math manipulatives. You can use them to show one to one correspondence with nuts and caps, count them, sort them or divide them into groups.
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Acorn Place Value

Acorns & Oak Leaves

Acorns & Oak Leaves
Callaway
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1. Estimate how many acorns you collected. Write the estimates on post-its and attach the post-its to your number line or hundreds board.
2. Put 10 acorns into each cup. 10 cups on a paper plate and ten plates on separate tables.

Pumpkins and Place Value has many more place value ideas.
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More Place Value ideas and activities

The Squirrels love counting and eating these seeds!

Squirrely Postcard postcard
Squirrely Postcard by SavageArtworks
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Your children will love pretending to be squirrels as they carve pumpkins and count the pumpkin seeds in this fun place value lesson with a pumpkin theme. Cut the top off the pumpkin, scoop out the seeds and then begin to divide the seeds into groups of 10's. Help your little squirrels learn math with this fun place value unit study.
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Keeping the Squirrels Busy

More Autumn Theme Centers and Activities

Leaves Float

Set up the Sensory Table with water and have some leaves, acorns and sticks that you collected on your walk nearby.

Children can determine whether or not each item sinks or floats. Some children may discover that leaves, for example may float if gently placed on top but sink if pushed underwater.
Fall or Harvest Center Activities
Go on a Fall walk collecting colored leaves, acorns, etc. Graph, sink and float, Venn graphs...
Sink or Float Worksheet
Sink or Float recording worksheet.

Paper Tube Squirrels

Recycle Paper Tubes to Make Squirrels with Acorns

Squirrel CraftAcorn and Leaf Crafts

After reading The Squirrel's Thanksgiving.

Photocopy the squirrel body parts, color them, glue them to a toilet paper tube for each squirrel in the family.

Make four or eight squirrels to retell the story of The Squirrel's Thanksgiving.
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Feed the Squirrels

Do you have any acorns for the Squirrels?

Feed the Squirrels

Whether you live in the country or in a city you will find plenty of squirrels. If you decide to feed the squirrels you will have endless hours of enjoying their antics.

Keep a pad of paper handy and a pair of binoculars. Don't forget to share your experiences with others.
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Baby Squirrel caught eating an acorn

"Baby squirrel caught eating an acorn on top of a fence in a farm. We held the camera right up to him/her? and did not mind at all. "

Isn't this adorable? You wouldn't want to watch this tiny infant squirrel chewing away at his/her lunch? The video is sped up as the squirrel obviously took his/her time eating it.
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Don't Feed the Squirrels

Squirrel-Proof Bird Feeders

Squirrels Proof

Even if you don't intend to feed the Squirrels you may find that they have found food.

Leave some nuts outside in the playground in a spot where you can observe from the window. Record how long it takes for squirrels to find it.
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Garenteed Squirrel Proof Feeders

A must read Tale of Squirrels and Bird Lovers

Squirrels Proof

It has come down to this. I'm currently the high bidder on eBay, for coyote urine.

Someone in Kansas outbid me on the red fox whiz.

Bobcat tinkle has no bids. I've got it bookmarked.

I've never seen a coyote in my life, but suddenly I'm desperately bidding $20.50 for 16 ounces of his No. 1. And it's even in "a convenient spray bottle."

Blame my wife, and Father's Day. Maybe Home Depot too, but I'm afraid that someday I might need an orange extension cord, so I'm leaving them out of this.
The battle of the century
It was the ultimate showdown of man vs. creature when a pack of squirrels invaded Don Barone's bird feeder.

Squirrels at the Bird Feeder

Do you like squirrels?

Naughty Squirrel Post Card postcard
Naughty Squirrel Post Card by twopurringcats
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Do you feed the Squirrels?

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Yes, I love to watch their antics.

cffutah says:

love having these little guys around.

TransplantedSoul says:

Yes. I have in every place I've lived since college.

pawpaw911 says:

We have an oak tree, and they actually feed themselves. They are fun to watch.

ScareYouDiva says:

yes they get their own feeder

EMangl says:

sure - two bags full of nuts collected already for winter, then we go feeding them in the park

Not by choice. How can I stop them?

JoyfulReviewer says:

Even though I love to watch them, I don't want to encourage even more squirrels into my yard.

MiddleSister says:

Nope. It's good for them to find their own food.

daria369 says:

No way I'd feed them, around here they have plenty of food year round.

blanckj says:

No! I don't want them all over my property eating my garden veggies.

CruiseReady says:

We don't.Hubby would like a bird feeder, but we would need a squirrel proof one, I think Lots of squirrels in our yard. They are great entertainment for the kitty, though

 
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Acorn Science

Squirrels and Acorns and How Trees begin to Grow

Acorn Science
Acorn Collecting and Handling Procedures
Official Virginia Department of Forestry Web site: The department carries out forestry activities on state-owned lands, manages State Forests, enforces forestry laws, protects forests from fire and forest pests, performs statewide forest resource planning and forestry outreach education in forest st

Squirrels and Acorns in the Oak Tree

Learn about Oak Trees

Oak Tree
Riverside County Oak Tree Management Guidelines
Riverside County Oak Tree Management Guidelines
Interesting Facts about Oak Trees
This page contains interesting facts about Oak trees

“Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.”

State Tree: The Oak

Acorns from Oak Trees provide food for Squirrels

The Charter Oak

The Charter Oak by Charles de Wolfe Brownell

If it wasn't for the oak tree, squirrels wouldn't have any acorns. Oak trees take many, many years to grow. Some people think that means that it's not worth our time to plant an oak tree. I disagree. The oak tree that we plant today may help squirrels find food 100 years from now. We better hurry up and plant a few acorns.
Iowa State Tree - Iowa Unit Study
Designated as the official state tree in 1961, the oak tree was chosen because it is abundant in the state and serves as shelter, food and nesting cover for many animals and birds including squirrels.

Acorns, the nuts of oak trees, are eaten by many animals and birds. Wild turkeys, pheasants, quail, wood ducks, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, blue jays, nuthatches, grackles, and several kinds of woodpeckers are a few of the species that depend on acorns for a significant portion of their diet.
Connecticut State Tree White Oak Quercus alba
THE CHARTER OAK
(White Oak, Quercus alba)
STATE TREE

Deep-rooted in the historic tradition of Connecticut, the Charter Oak is one of the most colorful and significant symbols of the spiritual strength and love of freedom, which inspired our Colonial forebears in their militant resistance to tyranny. This venerable giant of the forest, hundreds of years old when it hid the treasured Charter in 1687, finally fell during a great storm on August 21, 1856.

The Squirrel Children learn about Walnuts

How are Walnuts simular to Acorns?

Buddy and Brenda Squirrel were munching on walnuts one day and started to ask Mama Squirrel all about walnuts and the trees they come from. They decided to do a little research and found this wonderful lens just chalk full of useful information:
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Making Acorn Flour

Mother Squirrel's Recipies

Making Acorn FlourAcorn Bread
Making Acorn Flour
"It would be neat," Mom said one morning, "to actually try to make acorn flour, don't you think? "

How could I have known that this small project, meant to take an afternoon or so, would take four whole days.

How could I know that I would appreciate the women in Jamestown about twenty times more by seeing what they went through everyday.

Mamma Squirrel's Whole Wheat Nut Bread

Bread for the Squirrel Family and Yours Too!

Mother Squirrel makes Nut Bread

Ingredients

* 2 cups whole wheat flour
* 1 cup all-purpose flour
* 2 Tablespoons of Wheat Germ
* 1 cup chopped pecans, walnuts, etc. toasted
* 1/2 cup dried cranberries and dates
* 1/2 cup honey
* 1 1/2 cups unsweetened applesauce
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 1/2 cups milk
* 1/2 cup molasses
Date Nut Bread Recipe
Date nut bread is made with chopped dates, butter, boiling water, egg, and walnuts or pecans. A flavorful date nut bread recipe with photo.

Mama Squirrels Favorite Nut Roll Recipe

For the most delicious way to round out a Squirrel's Thanksgiving, Mama Squirrel chose Jaguar Julie's Nut Rolls. What a delicious dessert.
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The Squirrels welcome the Cousins

Tom Chapin's song Cousins:

Cousins, cousins! Here come the boys! Bedlam, mayhem! Noise, noise, noise!

This is an album that you just can't pass up. We sing it in the car with kids from 0-12+ and even sometimes get the teens to sing along. The cousins in The Squirrel's Thanksgiving are pretty wild but I'm not sure that they are quite as wild as the cousins in Tom Chapin's song.
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Squirrel Cousins

Learn about other Rodents

Sylvanian Families Walnut Squirrel Family Dolls

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Squirrel Songs and Poems

Let's sing about squirrels!

Squirrels gather Acorns
A Squirrel Song
Original Author Unknown

Sung to: "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain"

I'll be gathering all the acorns till they're gone.
I'll be gathering all the acorns till they're gone.
I'll be gathering all the acorns, gathering all the acorns,
Gathering all the acorns till they're gone.
(Children make collecting motion with their hands)

And I'll put them all inside my little home.
I will put them all inside my little home.
I will put them all inside, put them all inside,
Put them all inside my little home.
(children pretend to place nuts in tree house)

And I'll eat the nuts until the winter's gone.
I will eat the nuts until the winter's gone.
I will eat the nuts until, eat the nuts until,
Eat the nuts until the winter's gone.
(children pretend to eat acorns)

Then I'll do it all again come next fall.
I will do it all again come next fall.
I will do it all again, do it all again,
Do it all again come next fall.
(children make gathering motion with hands and arms again)
The Mississippi Squirrel Revival by Ray Stevens
The day the squirrel went berserk,
In the First Self-Righteous Church
in that sleepy little town of Pascagoula.
It was a fight for survival,
that broke out in revival.
They were jumpin pews and shouting Hallelujah!

Planting an Acorn on the Moon

Could a squirrel live on the Moon?

Acorn on the Moon

In his short story, They Forgot to Plant an Acorn on the Moon, Phil Shapiro uses scientific fact and imagination to explore the possibility of planting oak trees on the moon. After reading the story to the children you might like to add a new chapter about the possibility of squirrels living on the moon as well.

Photo Credit: Planting an Acorn
Available on Zazzle

They Forgot to Plant an Acorn on the Moon
They Forgot to Plant an Acorn on the Moon
The surface of the moon looks a lot like a desert. It's dry, rocky, and sandy. There are no plants on the moon. Not even a small cactus.In the year 1969 human beings from planet Earth first stepped on the moon. They walked around a bit and collected some more...

Squirrel Appreciation Day

January 21st is Squirrel Appreciation Day

I Love Squirrels button
I Love Squirrels
Available on Zazzle


Now that Christmas is over, what is the next major holiday?

Why ...Squirrel Appreciation Day of course.

What do you plan to do to celebrate? Do you have acorns for the squirrels?

To show your appreciation of the rodents in your life you might make bagel-and-birdseed squirrel feeders It will be a hit with all your bushy tailed friends and maybe some feathered ones as well.
Holiday Insights : Squirrel Appreciation Day
Squirrel Appreciation Day is an opportunity to enjoy and appreciate your tree climbing, nut gathering neighborhood squirrels.
How to Celebrate Squirrel Appreciation Day | eHow.com
How to Celebrate Squirrel Appreciation Day. Once a year, go nuts for squirrels. The official Squirrel Appreciation Day is January 21. Why not show your appreciation for the bushy-tailed little nut-gatherers by trying one of the following activi...

Celebrate Acorn Day!

Plant an Acorn for Acorn Day!

Acorn Day - October 17, 2009
Join us for an educational and fun-filled day for the entire family! Observe the time-honored tradition of preparing acorn for food and learn Native arts & crafts-making. Sample Native foods, and spend the afternoon helping us celebrate the acorn harvest season!

- California State Indian Museum - State Indian Museum - Sacramento365.com
Historical Information.The Irish Oak Renewal Foundation.
The Irish national tree.

At the end of the 16th century, Ireland was still a relatively wooded country, with one-eight of its surface area covered in forests. Most of this woodland was of Oak

Squirrels in the News!

Squirrel Tracks Wooden Trains - Old News
Old news items from Squirrel Tracks Wooden Trains' home page.
Squirrel behavior is not so nutty
Sneaky Squirrels Pretend to Bury Nuts!
Learn to say "squirrel" in almost 300 different languages!
Notice that some languages may have more than one word for squirrel; because they apply a different word for a different type of squirrel.
The Mysterious Case of Disappearing Acorns - Squirrels Starving : TreeHugger
Image: A hungry squirrel in Virginia (Corbis) Is Mother Nature calling it quits? Along with the baffling collapse of bee populations worldwide to other strange natural phenomena, we can now add the bizarre disappearance of acorns in widespread areas along
Watch out for baby squirrels nesting in trees
Most people think spring is the season when baby wildlife are born, but the local squirrel population has a different idea. Tree squirrels will often have two litters a year, one in January/February and another in July/August.

If a nest has blown down with babies in it and can be safely put it back in the tree, the mother squirrel will probably continue to care for her young. Often they have a second nest all ready in case they need it. If a baby is on the ground, it is important to try to reunite it with the mother. This can be done unless the baby is injured or cold-the mother will not take a cold baby back.
Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop - washingtonpost.com
The idea seemed too crazy to Rod Simmons, a measured, careful field botanist. Naturalists in Arlington County couldn't find any acorns. None. No hickory nuts, either. Then he went out to look for himself. He came up with nothing. Nothing crunched underfoot. Nothing hit him on the head.
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The squirrel family collects acorns throughout the fall and as Christmas nears they gather to paints some of the acorns silver and gold. They then string the acorns and hang them on the Christmas Tree.
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