Acorn Activities

We did a mini lesson on acorns.  I never thought it would be so hard to find acorns for us to use!  No one in our neighborhood has an oak tree.. I mean really?  Two hundred houses and no oak tree!  We finally found some at our chick-fil-a, at a home we stopped at for a yard sale and in the yard of a friend!

I made these acorn measurement task cards to introduce my daughter to weight and how to use her new beam balance!

We first worked with the cards that had us figure out which objects weight more, a set number of acorns or a set number of other objects.  I made sure that each card had objects we could easily find around our home, like pennies, buttons, blocks, marbles, etc.  We next figured out which of the objects weighed less.

We then used task cards that had us figure out how many acorns would equal the weight of the given object(s).  The above picture shows that 3 acorns weighed the same as the one block we placed in the balance!

We also sorted our pile of acorns into acorns that have tops and acorns that do not have tops.

We looked at our acorns with a magnifying glass to simply explore what it looks like up close.

We did this writing activity with acorns as well.  Since my daughter is beginning her journey in writing, I used the easiest rubric in this packet to guide her in making her own sentences.

Finally we painted with out acorns!  We took a sheet of paper and placed it inside a box and put 2-3 drops of different color paint all around our paper.  We put the acorns inside and shook them around in the box so that they rolled all around in the paint!