Then instruct them to draw a bed and/or home for the winter for their animal and then, using the glue stick, place their animal in its home.Īs the children are making their pictures, be sure to ask each of them (individually) where their animal will sleep and write it down. Have the children choose just 1 animal picture.Įncourage the children to write their name on their paper. Ask them where they think each animal would make its bed in the winter when it hibernates (in a tree trunk, a log, a cave, in the mud-for snakes!). Materials Needed: Pictures of animals that hibernate (from magazines, online, etc.) glue sticks construction paper markers Looking for Winter Themed Activites (snow, ice, etc.)?Ĭlick here to go to our WINTER THEME Page Hibernation Theme Art What Kind of Bed? You can either scroll down through this page to see all of the preschool activities for this Theme or click the link below to go to specific preschool activity types you are looking for. However, because torpor is a light form of hibernation, we'll leave Bears on this page and just be sure to tell our preschoolers that bears sleep a lot in winter, but not all winter, so shhhhhhh.don't wake the bears! Let the Hibernation Theme Planning Begin! But, they can wake up, it just takes them longer and they are groggy for a while! Most bear cubs are born in the winter months and Mama Bear needs to wake up to feed them! No wonder they are cranky in winter! This is a when they sleep soundly for sometimes weeks! Their body temperatures do go down and their breathing slows. Now, here's something you may not have known: Bears do NOT hibernate! I know, I just CAN'T be a myth!īears actually go into what is called torpor. You can also add bees and earthworms to the list!
Also on this list are sloth, iguanas, frogs, snails, snakes and some turtles. Some animals that hibernate are badgers, bats, chipmunks, dormice, ground squirrels, ground hogs (wait-really? So THAT'S why Punxatawny Phil seems so groggy and docile on GROUND HOG DAY!), hamsters, hedgehogs, raccoons and skunks.
During the winter, these animals can actually be moved or touched and not even be aware of it! In springtime when they awaken, they are very thin, but healthy. Their body fat (from all of the extra eating they did in the summer and fall to prepare for this time) gets them through the winter. A hibernating animal's body temperature drops drastically and their breathing slows.
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