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Groundhog Paper Craft ActivityGroundhog Paper Craft Activity
Publisher
DLTK
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Pre-K - 3rd
Subjects
Science
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Duration
45 mins
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Groundhog Paper Craft

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This Groundhog Paper Craft activity also includes:
  • Template - Color
  • Template - Black and White
  • Predictions Template - Color
  • Predictions Template - Black and White
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Get crafty this Groundhog's Day with a hands-on activity that combines creativity and making predictions. Scholars color, cut out, and put together a friendly image of a groundhog and showcase whether they feel the weather will be sunny or cloudy. 

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Concepts

groundhog day, Holidays, making predictions, weather forecasting, weather, crafts, groundhogs, cutting skills, clouds, the sun

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Invite each learner to share their prediction, make a graph representing your class' answers 
  • Display finished products to add a festive flare to your classroom decor 
  • Watch a kid-friendly newscast on Groundhog's Day to see which prediction is correct 

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires copies and craft materials  
  • February second is Groundhog's Day

Pros

  • Groundhog and worksheet enhance engagement with cartoon-like images 
  • Prediction-making made easy with large boxes on a worksheet  

Cons

  • None

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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]

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Groundhog Day

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Using paper and a pencil, produce a pop-up puppet of a groundhog that peers out and over it's burrow to tell us when Spring is coming. 
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Instructional Video

Groundhog Day | All About the Holidays

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Discover the history of Groundhog Day with a captivating video that details how the holiday came to be and spotlights the key role Punxsutawney Phil plays in the celebration. 
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