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CUB'S CORNER
Here's a spot for the younger adventurers and those young at heart to learn more about the great outdoors with print out activities, coloring sheets & kid-friendly websites. You might want to print some out to keep around the cabin for those rainy days that sometimes happen. Click links below to see more.
Squirrels….they can drive you nuts! You either love them or hate them. This time of year, they are busy building their caches to help them survive the long winter. Around Promised Land, we see most often the gray and red squirrels, and chipmunks. Chipmunks and squirrels, which are actually “tree squirrels,” are members of the same family called Sciuridae (sigh-YUR-i-dee). These little critters play a vital role in our ecosystem because all those nuts, they forgot where they buried, could be start of a new forest!
Squirrely Facts:
- With 285 species of squirrels, they can be found in every continent except Antarctica and Australia.
- Squirrels tend to stop and start, and change direction constantly, which helps in avoiding predators such as foxes, hawks or owls but not vehicles sadly.
- An estimated 41 million squirrels are killed by drivers each year.
- Squirrels’ eyes are positioned in a way which allows them to see behind them.
- Squirrels will tail whip as a sign that predators have been spotted nearby.
- Tree squirrels use their tails as a balance, a rudder, a parachute, a way to communicate social signals, and as a blanket!
- In one season, squirrels can bury up to 10,000 nuts.
- Squirrels may pretend to bury a nut to throw off potential thieves.
- Squirrels may lose 25 percent of their buried food to thieves.
- Squirrels can find food buried beneath a foot of snow.
- Prairie dogs are considered a squirrel.
Make it Yourself
Click the words below for directions to create
a festive fall decoration
Seasonal Snack
Click the words below to find out how to make homemade squirrel food. All the ingredients are fit for humans too, but be careful, your teeth are not meant for gnawing!
Coloring Page
Click the words below for a page to print out and color
* Coloring pages from the Wildlife of PA coloring book from PA Game Commission
