🦉 Exploring the World of Nocturnal Animals: A Journey Through the Night
Welcome to our topic page dedicated to Nocturnal Animals, a truly fascinating subject that sparks curiosity and wonder in young children! This introduction is designed to help UK EYFS and KS1 practitioners easily explain this exciting topic to their students.
What are Nocturnal Animals? 🦇
Nocturnal animals are creatures that are most active at night 🌙. While we are typically sleeping, these amazing animals are wide awake, busy hunting for food, playing, and exploring! Think of it like this: just as we are diurnal (most active during the day), these animals have their 'daytime' when it's dark! They have developed special adaptations, like fantastic hearing and super sight, that help them navigate and thrive in the darkness.
Popular examples that children love learning about include owls, bats, and hedgehogs 🦔. Engaging with this topic encourages children to think about the different ways living things interact with the world and introduces concepts of time and adaptation in an accessible way.
When and Why is the Topic Covered? 📅
The topic of Nocturnal Animals is a popular choice for nurseries, preschools, reception classes, childminders, and Key Stage 1 (KS1) teachers across the UK. It is most frequently covered during the autumn and winter terms 🍂❄️.
Why this time?
Natural Connection: As the days grow shorter and the evenings become darker earlier, children have a more immediate and tangible connection to the concept of 'night-time.' (‘Light and Dark’ topic coming soon to Little Owls Resources.)
Seasonal Changes: It often ties in perfectly with lessons on autumnal changes, hibernation, and even Halloween 🎃, making it a highly relevant and engaging theme.
Curriculum Links: The topic aligns well with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum under Understanding the World and the KS1 Science curriculum units on 'Animals, including humans' and 'Living things and their habitats.'
By offering high-quality, printable resources for EYFS and KS1, we aim to make teaching this key scientific concept both easy and fun! Use our materials to explore the amazing habits of animals that sleep when we're awake. Please scroll down to browse our ‘Nocturnal Animals’ enabling environment provision, including resources to support both in-the-moment magic and more adult-led focused learning. We hope it helps! 😊
Sections on this page:
Free ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Resources
Core ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Resources
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Free ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Printables for Early Years
Join for free and download our inspirational ‘Nocturnal Animals’ themed educational resources in this ‘Free Samples’ section! (Click on the images below to find out more)
🦔 Bring a touch of autumn magic to your early maths lessons with our wonderful FREE Autumn: Hedgehog Counting & Subitising Activity! This engaging printable resource is perfect…
🦔 This engaging printable resource is perfect for EYFS and KS1 children, providing a fantastic way to support counting, number recognition, and one-to-one correspondence through a fun, autumn…
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Nocturnal Animals Resources | EYFS & KS1 Provision
Please explore our selection of nocturnal animal themed printable resources. Ideal for use a invitations to play, continuous provision enhancements or more focused adult-led activities.
Bring depth and scientific curiosity to your setting with our Nocturnal Animals High-Impact Question & Vocab Bank! This powerful EYFS planning resource is designed for UK Early Years practitioners seeking to deepen learning about the natural world and systematically enrich children's topic vocabulary and critical thinking skills.…
Dive into the fascinating world of darkness and discovery with our expert Nocturnal Animals Continuous Provision Planning Pack! This unique and engaging theme offers countless opportunities for exploring the natural world, sensory play, and core scientific concepts. This resource is an invaluable aid for UK Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) practitioners…
Place as an ‘invitation to play’ as part of continuous provision and/or use as prompts during an adult led activity as follows:
Print and laminate the cards being mindful not to leave pointy corners.
Set up the two sets of animal cards. Choose one of the animals and say its name out loud, e.g. “Owl!”
Then say to the child “Can you find the other owl?”
Help the child through a matching game, whilst reinforcing the names of the animals.
Ideal for 1-2 year olds, but use of cards can be adapted for different age groups.
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Set of high Contrast black and white silhouette cards for ‘Nocturnal Animals’ theme. Perfect addition to your continuous provision surrounding this topic.
We have included a variety of cards in this pack for various purposes. The large high contrast images are well suited for visual tracking with babies and for decoration and displays. Our smaller cards are ideal for use with slightly older children in problem solving matching and sorting activities, either left out as an ‘invitation to play’ or as a more adult directed activity.
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Set of cards and mats for sorting of nocturnal and diurnal animals. A great addition to your continuous provision for a ‘Nocturnal Animals’ theme. The printables can either be left out as an ‘invitation to play’ or set up as a more adult directed activity. Children may use the materials in a very different way to expected, e.g. for small world role-play using the mats as back drops or as prompts for making animal sounds.
Possible adult directed activity:
- Print and laminate the cards being mindful not to leave pointy corners.
- Children to think about when different animals are awake and sort them according to Day and Night.
- Practitioners can choose between colour coded animals for extra scaffolding or uniformly coloured animals for additional challenge.
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Nocturnal animals tally sheet designed for aiding the development of early data representation skills.
Possible adult directed activity:
- Print several sets of the page of animal cards, fold them along the middle and then laminate them, being mindful not to leave pointy corners. (Or use your own nocturnal animal props.) Use the quantity of each animal you think is appropriate for your child(ren).
- Spread the cards out face down. Children to take turns turning over a card and then marking it on their tally chart. When all cards are turned, children to count totals and see which one they turned over the most.
- Variations include placing animals (cards or small world toys) around your setting or in a tuff tray for children to find and then make marks on the tally chart.
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Additional ‘Nocturnal Animal’ resources for EYFS & KS1
Below we have put together a collection of ‘Nocturnal Animal’ resources from various topics on our site. We hope you find them useful! 😊
🦉 Barn Owls | Famous for its "hoot" and big, round eyes that help it see at night. The Barn Owl's white colour can make it seem like a "ghost" of the night.
The pages of this pack give some general information about barn owls and some fun and engaging activities to foster and develop children’s interest in them.
Pack includes:
• Fact posters x3 (Could be used as stimuli for a lesson input)
• Number slice activity (1-10) (Can be pre-cut for a pure number ordering activity or left to be cut by child to add scissor practice)
• Number slice activity - colouring version (1-10) (As above but to be coloured before cutting)
• Description sheet (Can be used as an independent writing activity or with an adult scribing the ideas of a younger child)
• A4 poster
• A4 poster - colouring version
• ‘Body Parts’ x3 (fully labelled, initial sounds only, blank)
• Draw and write sheets x3 (blank sheet, wide lines and narrow lines)
• 1x 4-piece puzzle
• Multimats x2 (for Colouring/Art & Craft/Loose Parts/Playdough)
Keywords: puzzles, activity, activities, facts, information, endangered, non-fiction, nonfiction, non fiction, problem solving, barn owl, woodland, owl, owls, birds
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These ‘Mummy Owl and Owlets‘ pencil control sheets/mats are perfect for the development of fine motor control using mark making tools or even just a tracing finger! Smooth and spiky patterns included.
Ideal for both individual use to ‘take home’ or laminated for multiple uses with whiteboard pens.
You may like to read ‘Owl Babies’ alongside this resource.
Keywords: mark making, make marks, activities, activity, woodlands, trees, forest, animal, dotted line, pencil control, fine motor, owl, barn owl, owlets, owl babies, finger tracing, smooth/curved lines, spiky/pointy lines
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These ‘Mummy Owl and Owlets’ pencil control mats are perfect for the development of fine motor control using mark making tools or even just a tracing finger! Smooth and spiky patterns included.
Ideal for multiple uses with whiteboard pens/a tracing finger once laminated. Mats could also be used with playdough or loose parts!
You may like to read ‘Owl Babies’ alongside this resource.
Keywords: mark making, make marks, activities, activity, woodlands, trees, forest, animal, dotted line, pencil control, fine motor, owl, barn owl, owlets, owl babies, finger tracing, smooth/curved lines, spiky/pointy lines
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Help your Mummy Owl to get home to her owl babies/owlets after a busy night hunting for food with this fun and engaging Letters and Sounds game.
Two different boards to choose from - one for Phase 2 Sounds and another for Phase 3 Sounds. Dice required.
Children choose a Mummy Owl to place at the start, roll the dice and move the appropriate number of sound squares towards their baby owls. When they land on a sound square they can practise saying the sound. Have fun!
letters and sounds, phonics, owl, owl babies, owlets, owlet, game, dice, turn taking
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🦔 Hedgehogs
Known for their spines and snuffling as they look for food. Often a main character in simple night-time stories.
🦔 This engaging printable resource is perfect for EYFS children, offering a fantastic opportunity to support early phonics development (Phase 1), listening skills, and vocabulary through a fun investigation of nocturnal creatures.…
🦔 Engage the youngest learners with our wonderful High Contrast Autumn Hedgehog Images for Babies! This gentle printable resource is perfect for EYFS Babies, providing a fantastic way to support visual development…
🦔 Introduce a moment of calm into your autumn topic with our wonderful Autumn: Mindfulness Colouring Hedgehogs! This peaceful printable resource is perfect for EYFS and KS1 children…
🦔 Bring the magic of the season to your art lessons with our wonderful Hedgehog Autumn Leaves Collage Activity! This engaging printable resource is perfect for EYFS and KS1 children…
🦔 This engaging printable resource is perfect for EYFS children, providing a fantastic way to support number recognition, counting, and the crucial skill of subitising through a fun, autumn-themed game…
🦔 Bring a touch of autumn magic to your early maths lessons with our wonderful FREE Autumn: Hedgehog Counting & Subitising Activity! This engaging printable resource is perfect…
🦔 This engaging printable resource is perfect for EYFS and KS1 children, providing a fantastic way to support counting, number recognition, and one-to-one correspondence through a fun, autumn…
This hedgehog subitising (subitizing) game encourages children to spot the hedgehogs with the appropriate number of dots (in different formations). ‘How quickly can we match all of the hedgehogs to the correct piles of cosy leaves?’
You may want to add an element of challenge with a timer, e.g. ‘Can we get all of the hedgehogs to their safe hiding spots before the timer runs out?’ (We would advise beginning without a timer and then only adding this element to progress the game once children are becoming confident. Start with a time which is definitely achievable.)
Choose the appropriate pack for your child(ren): Subitising to 3, 5 or 10. Other 2 packs available here.
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Can you make the correct number of wiggly worms for your hedgehog to eat? Great for motor skills, creativity (making simple representations of objects), number recognition and 1:1 correspondence counting!
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Once laminated this ‘Hedgehog Multimat’ is ideal to be used as a reusable playdough or loose parts mat. Alternatively, use it in conjunction with whiteboard pens. Without lamination this sheet could also be used with mark making tools or art and craft materials.
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🦡 Badgers
Recognised by their black and white striped faces, they live in underground homes called a 'sett.'
Once laminated these ‘Badger Multimats’ are ideal to be used as reusable playdough or loose part mats. Alternatively, use them in conjunction with whiteboard pens. Without lamination these sheets could also be used with mark making tools or art and craft materials.
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Can you match the badger with the right number of worms it needs to eat? Badger cards numbered 1-20 with corresponding worm counting mats. Alternatively, laminate the worm mats and challenge children to count the worms and write the corresponding number in the central square with a whiteboard pen.
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Bats
The only flying mammal in the UK. Can be explained as tiny, fluttery creatures that use their ears to "see" in the dark.
The pages of this pack give some general information about bats and some fun and engaging activities to foster and develop children’s interest in them.
Pack includes:
• Fact posters x3 (Could be used as stimuli for a lesson input)
• Number slice activity (1-10) (Can be pre-cut for a pure number ordering activity or left to be cut by child to add scissor practice)
• Number slice activity - colouring version (1-10) (As above but to be coloured before cutting)
• Description sheet (Can be used as an independent writing activity or with an adult scribing the ideas of a younger child)
• A4 poster
• A4 poster - colouring version
• ‘Body Parts’ x3 (fully labelled, initial sounds only, blank)
• Draw and write sheets x3 (blank sheet, wide lines and narrow lines)
• 1x 4-piece puzzle
• Multimats x2 (for Colouring/Art & Craft/Loose Parts/Playdough)
Keywords: puzzles, activity, activities, facts, information, endangered, non-fiction, nonfiction, non fiction, problem solving, bat, mammals
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Pack of 2 bat colouring sheets. Great for mindfulness practise!
Fine Motor, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Take Home, Endangered Animals, Activity, Print Carries Meaning, Observational Skills, Colouring, Art and Craft, Bat, Mammals
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Lions & Tigers
They are most active at night or during the twilight hours (dawn/dusk) to stalk prey, resting during the heat of the day.
The pages of this pack give some general information about lions and some fun and engaging activities to foster and develop children’s interest in them.
Pack includes:
• Fact posters x3 (Could be used as stimuli for a lesson input)
• Number slice activity (1-10) (Can be pre-cut for a pure number ordering activity or left to be cut by child to add scissor practice)
• Number slice activity - colouring version (1-10) (As above but to be coloured before cutting)
• Description sheet (Can be used as an independent writing activity or with an adult scribing the ideas of a younger child)
• A4 poster
• A4 poster - colouring version
• ‘Body Parts’ x3 (fully labelled, initial sounds only, blank)
• Draw and write sheets x3 (blank sheet, wide lines and narrow lines)
• 1x 4-piece puzzle
• Multimats x4 (for Colouring/Art & Craft/Loose Parts/Playdough)
Fine Motor, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Drawing, Take Home, Zoo, Puzzles, Games, Activity, Animal body parts, Discussion Prompts, Print Carries Meaning, Problem Solving, Observational Skills, Posters/Displays, Using Shapes for Task, Number Recognition and Ordering, Endangered Animal Packs, Lion, Grassland, Art and Craft, Mammals
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The pages of this pack give some general information about tigers and some fun and engaging activities to foster and develop children’s interest in them.
Pack includes:
• Fact posters x3 (Could be used as stimuli for a lesson input)
• Number slice activity (1-10) (Can be pre-cut for a pure number ordering activity or left to be cut by child to add scissor practice)
• Number slice activity - colouring version (1-10) (As above but to be coloured before cutting)
• Description sheet (Can be used as an independent writing activity or with an adult scribing the ideas of a younger child)
• A4 poster
• A4 poster - colouring version
• ‘Body Parts’ x3 (fully labelled, initial sounds only, blank)
• Draw and write sheets x3 (blank sheet, wide lines and narrow lines)
• 1x 4-piece puzzle
• Multimats x4 (for Colouring/Art & Craft/Loose Parts/Playdough)
Fine Motor, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Drawing, Take Home, Zoo, Tiger, Puzzles, Games, Activity, Animal body parts, Discussion Prompts, Print Carries Meaning, Problem Solving, Observational Skills, Posters/Displays, Using Shapes for Task, Number Recognition and Ordering, Endangered Animal Packs, Art and Craft, Mammals
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Pack of 2 lion colouring sheets. Great for mindfulness practise!
Fine Motor, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Take Home, Zoo, Endangered Animals, Activity, Print Carries Meaning, Observational Skills, Colouring, Grassland, Lion, Art and Craft, Mammals
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Pack of 2 tiger colouring sheets. Great for mindfulness practise!
Fine Motor, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Take Home, Zoo, Endangered Animals, Tiger, Activity, Print Carries Meaning, Observational Skills, Colouring, Art and Craft, Mammals
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Versatile sheets for children to create tiger stripes.
Individual use with pencils/crayons or art and craft cut and stick/collage materials.
Laminate for repeated use with whiteboard pens, playdough (roll playdough into cylindrical strips to make stripes) or loose parts.
Fine Motor, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Take Home, Zoo, Endangered Animals, Tiger, Activity, Observational Skills, Playdough/Loose Part Mats, Laminate to use with w/b pens, Art and Craft, Mammals
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1-10 ‘Feed the Tiger’ themed number recognition and counting puzzles.
Match the number on each tiger to the correct quantity of meat.
Practise counting objects which cannot be moved.
Use as a table or floor activity or part of an interactive display board. Left uncut, can be used as flashcards or for number ordering games.
Fine Motor, Zoo, Endangered Animals, Tiger, Activity, Observational Skills, Counting, Number Recognition and Ordering, Number Lines, Puzzles, Games, Mammals, Carnivores
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Why not set up an invitation to play using these ‘Feed the Lion’ counting puzzles? Select those appropriate for your children (1-10 available) and allow them to match the number underneath the lion with the corresponding meat to feed them.
Each pair has a different way of connecting as a puzzle for the children to match and so even if they haven’t learnt what the number looks like yet, but are beginning to say the numbers in order, this can be a fun way to introduce them to new challenges.
Once the puzzles are complete, why not line the numbers up in order and count together? If your children would enjoy a further challenge, leave out a number and see if they can spot which one is missing from the sequence.
Puzzles could also be used as a fine motor control/counting activity if left uncut.
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Black Rhinos
They are known to move and browse through the night, likely to avoid the heat of the day.
The pages of this pack give some general information about black rhinos and some fun and engaging activities to foster and develop children’s interest in them.
Pack includes:
• Fact posters x3 (Could be used as stimuli for a lesson input)
• Number slice activity (1-10) (Can be pre-cut for a pure number ordering activity or left to be cut by child to add scissor practice)
• Number slice activity - colouring version (1-10) (As above but to be coloured before cutting)
• Description sheet (Can be used as an independent writing activity or with an adult scribing the ideas of a younger child)
• A4 poster
• A4 poster - colouring version
• ‘Body Parts’ x3 (fully labelled, initial sounds only, blank)
• Draw and write sheets x3 (blank sheet, wide lines and narrow lines)
• 1x 4-piece puzzle
• Multimats x4 (for Colouring/Art & Craft/Loose Parts/Playdough)
Keywords: puzzles, activity, activities, facts, information, endangered, non-fiction, nonfiction, non fiction, problem solving, rhino, rhinoceros, mammals
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🐸 Frogs
Common frogs and common toads are primarily nocturnal, slipping out after dusk when the world softens and the insects don’t see them coming.
Frog life cycle display pack. Ideal for learning about growth at any time of the year, but particularly within the context of new life in ‘Spring’. Also ideal to be used as visuals for an activity, e.g. placing all of the life cycle elements in the correct positions relative to each other on a table or as a floor activity. Once in place, perhaps even use as a stimulus for art and craft or playdough.
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A frog life cycle poster together with a cut and stick activity on the same theme.
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🦀 Crabs
Many species, particularly hermit crabs and deep-water crabs, are nocturnal. They use the night-time to forage for food and avoid predators and the heat of the day. (The Edible Crab (Cancer pagurus) featured in the resource below, is mainly nocturnal. They typically spend the day buried or hidden in crevices and emerge to forage on the seafloor at night.)
Versatile blank crab sheet. Ideal for exploring symmetry using a variety of different media. Children could create their own colourful designs attempting to create symmetry themselves. Alternatively you could try painting a pattern on one side and folding along the dotted line which presses the paint onto the other side, thus creating a symmetrical design.
Activity, Symmetry, Fine Motor, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Laminate to use with w/b pens, Observational Skills, Problem Solving, Take Home, *Realistic Style*, Art and Craft, Crabs, Edible Crab
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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