Squirrels

SQUIRREL POEMS

	Read W.B. Yeats’s To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No.
	Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem Fable begins “The mountain and the squirrel/Had a quarrel…”
	Arijit Mandal’s upbeat The Squirrel begins “Whisking, frisking/Hippity, hop/Up he goes/To the tree top!”
	Jack Prelutsky’s poem “Squirrels” is from the collection Something Big Has Been Here (Greenwillow, 2010). Or read it online along with a nice little note on making a personal poetry book for a kid.

SQUIRREL ARTS AND CRAFTS

	Squirrel Crafts has many creative projects with instructions and printable templates. Included are origami squirrels, balloon squirrels, sock puppet squirrels, and flying squirrel paper airplanes.
	Squirrel Crafts for Kids has a wonderful assortment of artistic squirrels, including gorgeous papier-mache squirrels, painted paper stand-up squirrels, egg-carton squirrels, and a stuffed chipmunk made from a glove.
	Build a squirrel! The Squirrel 3-D Puzzle is a Woodcraft Construction kit: pop out the 20 pieces and fit them together for a nice little stand-alone squirrel, suitable for painting (or nice as is). Recommended for ages 7 and up.
	Activity Village’s Learn About Squirrels has squirrel coloring and notebooking pages, squirrel printables, and instructions for making a squirrel collage and spoon puppet.

A GIRL NAMED SQUIRREL?

Emily Arnold McCully’s Squirrel and John Muir (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004) is a fictionalized take on a real incident that took place in California’s Yosemite Valley in 1868. Young Floy Hutchings, whose parents run Yosemite’s first hotel, is nicknamed Squirrel because of her wild and rebellious behavior. When naturalist John Muir comes to the Valley and takes a job at the hotel, he and the lonely little girl form a bond. Illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings. For ages 4-8.

Squirrel Girl, Marvel Comics superheroine, has a tail, little claws in place of fingernails, and an ability to communicate with squirrels, hordes of which help her defeat enemies.