Arctic Habitat Play

Create the Arctic Habitat with your child. Read facts about the Arctic and each Arctic animal using this worksheet as your child creates. When the Arctic Habitat is complete, let your child play!

What You Need for this Craft:

cardboard box
print the Arctic Animals Worksheet
print the Arctic Animal Images
an assortment of paint to create snow, the sky, and northern lights
paintbrush
scissors
glue
Reindeer Craft:

popsicle stick
2 clothespins
2 mini clothespins
black permanent marker to draw reindeer face

Polar Bear Craft

toilet paper roll
white paint
4 cotton balls
scissors
hot glue stick and hot glue gun
black permanent marker

Arctic Hare Craft

1/2 toilet paper roll
white paint
cotton ball torn into many pieces
hot glue stick and hot glue gun
scissors
small piece of white paper cut into 2 bunny ears
black permanent marker

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Teaching Tip: You do not have to create this in one day. Spread it out over a week or two. The more times you revisit a subject, the more your child will be able to recall and remember. Perhaps you and your child could create the snow and discuss the cold weather of the Arctic one day. The second day you could create the northern lights together. You could let your child pick one animal to add to the habitat for each of the following days. Read and discuss the facts about the animals.

Arctic Facts

The Arctic is a very cold place! The winters are long, dark, and cold. The summers are short and cool. Some places in the Arctic are covered in ice year-round. Even though it is so cold, many animals, some plants, and people live there. People love to look at the Northern Lights in the Arctic. The Northern Lights are beautiful colors seen in the night sky.

Arctic Animal Facts

Reindeer have larger and heavier antlers than all other types of deer! Each reindeer’s antler is unique. No two reindeer have the same.

Polar Bears are the biggest bear in the world! They have lots of fat called blubber. The blubber keeps them warm in the cold temperatures.

Arctic Hares are a little larger than average rabbits, but they have shorter ears. This is so that they stay warm. Arctic Hares’ fur is brownish-grey in the warmer months and white in the colder months. This is so they can camouflage.

Arctic Foxes’ fur changes colors to camouflage like Arctic Hares. They have brownish-grey fur in the warmer months and white in the colder months. Baby arctic foxes are called kits.

Arctic Owls have lots of feathers. This makes keeps them warm and makes them heavy! Even their feet are covered in feathers. Arctic Owls build nests on the ground. The mom snowy owl sits on her eggs until they hatch. The mom and dad take care of the baby snowy owls until they are old enough.

Walruses are huge! They have lots of fat called blubber. The blubber keeps them warm. Walruses swim in very cold, icy water. They also have two big husks!

Beluga Whales like to sing! They sing to communicate with other beluga whales. The whales are born dark grey, but change to a white color as they mature. Beluga Whales are the smallest of all the whales, but are still really bigger than everyone in your family by a lot!

Narwhals have a large tooth that sticks out from its head. Some people call Narwhals the unicorn of the sea because of the large tooth.

Lemmings are small rodents. They look similar to rats, mice, hamsters, and gerbils except that Lemmings have thicker fur, so that they can keep warm. Lemmings have long claws and sharp teeth to help in eating roots.

Stoats are small animals, but they have lots of energy! They are fast animals! They can run 20 miles an hour. That is faster than most people!

Encouragement: Mommy, Daddy, Primary Caregiver, Teacher, when you and your child create to learn, you are also creating a wonderful bond!

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