ACTIVITES TO DOWNLOAD
Entertainment And Education
The volunteers of the Sally Manzara Interpretive Nature Center are creating activities for your entertainment and education. Scroll to the bottom of this page, click the link you want, and get the Drawings to Color, Games to Download, and Word Find Puzzles to have something to do at home. Print out copies of one of the Scavenger Hunts, and the Nature Guide information, or Trail Map, before you head over to Sunfish Lake Park for a refreshing walk. Thanks especially to Christa for many of these creations!
These activities include illustrated nature Scavenger Hunt sheets, Nature Journal pages, Word Find Puzzles at different levels of difficulty, other Games, and Trail Guide information.
Christa’s Tips On Nature Photography
Take some interesting observations and upload them to the Sunfish Lake Park Project on iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/sunfish-lake-park. If you have not signed up to send in observations, visit https://www.inaturalist.org/signup – it is FREE and FUN!
Games To Download
Memory Card Games
Directions: Print out two copies of the photo sheets and cut out the cards on the blue lines. Use as many pairs as you wish. Mix them up and lay them face down on a table in rows and columns.
When it is your turn, turn over any two cards. If they match, keep them and take another turn. You can read off the animal facts for the set(s) that you matched. If they don’t match, turn them back over. Try to remember what was on each card and where it was.
Play moves to the next person. The game is over when all the cards have been matched and the winner is the one with the most matched pairs.
Count The Creatures Games
Print out these games, count how many of each bird or insect is pictured, and learn some new facts about them.
Line Puzzles
Print out these pictures, cut along the lines, mix up the pieces, put them back together, and learn about nature!
american-toad
muskrat
painted lady
syrphid fly
tormentose burying beetle
Picture Sudoku
Cut out the pictures and arrange them in the right order – and learn something new!
Word Find Puzzles
Classic Word Find Puzzles
Based on Exhibits at the Sally Manzara Interpretive Nature Center
aquatic life
birds in the park
butterflies
conservation of soil and water
forest ecosystems
geological history
mushrooms in the park
native americans then and now
pollution stories
prairie restoration
spring wildflowers
sunfish lake park
Easy Word Find Puzzles
Nature Journal Pages
Download / Print / Enjoy
These pages show a scene to focus one’s thoughts. The Visitor is invited to download and print the page, and to express their ideas or impressions in writing or drawings.
acorns
bee
bench
binoculars
bird
caterpillar
cocoon
eagle
falling leaves
favorite place
insect
nature homes
nature observation
pond journal
prairie-sky
duck
egg
egret
empty nest
magnifying glass
maple seed
osprey
plants
snow
spider
tracks
tree hole
trees
winter lake
woodland
bugs
burrow
butterfly
dragonfly
feather
flower
forest
log
snail
snapper
spring
underwater
Drawings To Color
Mirror Drawings
These beautiful pictures are half-done, so you can finish the other half. Did you know that each person has a dominant eye as well as a dominant hand? Try downloading and printing two copies of these pictures, then color one right side up and the other, upside down, and compare the two efforts! Or try it with the original picture turned away from you, and the part to be colored closer to you. (thanks to Christa for the drawings)
butterfly
deer
flower
milkweed bug
oak leaf
purple coneflower
tiger swallowtail
Black and White
Download, print, and color these pictures from Sunfish Lake Park
blandings turtle
bumble bee
chipping sparrow
common milkweed
delaware skipper
dragonfly
garter snake
grasshopper
green heron
leopard frog
mallard duck
monarch butterfly
mourning cloak
muskrat
muskrat two
nuthatch
painted lady butterfly
purple coneflower
raccoon
raccoon two
rue anemone
violets
white tailed deer
white tailed deer two
wild geranium
black bear
chipmunk
ground squirrel
squirrel
squirrel two
mouse
rabbit
rabbit two
woodchuck