How do animals prepare for winter? Part 1.

Speech logical tasks, stories, fairy tales, poems in pictures, experiments, finger theater and dramatized dialogues for children on the topic “How animals prepare for winter”. This topic helps the child not only to learn a new interesting information about how animals prepare for winter, but also to learn see connections in the environment. For example,

• it gets cold - so the insects hide - so the birds fly south, because there is no food for them.
• the bunny changes his fur coat to white so that he cannot be seen on the white snow in winter.

From the material of the article, you can easily choose exactly what your child will be interested in:

• for kids 3-4 years old - games, poems, pictures, cartoons,
• for children 5-6 years old, you can add logical speech tasks, natural history stories. Do not rush to tell the child as much as possible!

The main thing is for him to be interested, so that he does not just listen and remember, but he himself thinks, reflects, asks questions, invents and acts out dialogues.

How animals prepare for winter: experiments, stories, poems, speech logic tasks, pictures for children

In the article you will find experiments, stories, fairy tales, poems, logic tasks, pictures, tasks for children preschool age:

1. Experiences for children“Why is a hare gray in summer and white in winter?”, “Which fur coat is warmer?”
2. How hare getting ready for winter?
3. How bear getting ready for winter?
4. How hedgehog getting ready for winter?
5. presentation for viewing pictures and activities with children on this article.

How to tell a child about how animals prepare for winter?

• Here you will find a lot of materials on the topic “How animals prepare for winter”. This is done so that every mother can choose exactly what is interesting for her baby!
• It is not necessary to introduce the child immediately to all animals. First, introduce 2-3 animals, make a logical puzzle about them. Consider pictures. Act out the dialogue between them, in which the animals tell each other about their autumn affairs. And then, when the baby is already comfortable, introduce the next animal.
• You can work with your child on these materials in any order. But speech logical tasks are designed to consolidate the existing ideas of children, therefore, they are used at the end of the conversation with the baby as its result, as a creative task for applying the acquired knowledge.
• The article consists of two parts. You will find a link to the second part of the topic “How animals prepare for winter” at the end of the article. Good luck! I wish you new discoveries!

Experiments on the topic "How animals prepare for winter."

Experience 1. Why is a hare white in winter?

“Grey in summer, white in winter” - all children and adults know this riddle. And why does the bunny turn white in winter? Even a three-year-old child can find the answer to this question himself, if you show him one very simple and interesting experiment.

• Cut out the silhouette of a bunny from white paper (make it so that the child does not see how and what you cut out, this is a surprise for him!).
• Put the silhouette of a bunny on a sheet of white paper. Attach. Can be slightly glued with a glue stick. But I do it differently. I use Uni patafix plastic mass. We take a piece of the mass (it resembles plasticine in consistency), attach the silhouette to the background. After the experiment, it will be possible to peel off. The same piece of mass is used repeatedly and leaves no traces. A very handy thing that is sold in stationery stores and online stores.
• The white silhouette of a bunny is pinned on White background. Now everything is ready and you can call the baby to you. Say that you came up with a riddle for him. Now you show someone, and he will try to guess who it is.
• Move as far as possible - to the other end of the room and quickly show your picture to the baby (five seconds maximum). Who is this? Most likely the child will say that nothing is visible or hard to see. Show again, but hold the picture longer so you can see it. It's still hard to guess who it is, because it's hard to see? Or did the kid still know who it is? Ask your child why it is so hard to guess who it is?
• Now unpin the silhouette and put it on the green background. Show the child also from afar. O! It is immediately clear that this is a hare!
• Ask the kid if a wolf or a fox can see a white bunny on white snow? Why, then, does the bunny change its coat for the winter? (yes, a wolf and a fox would immediately see him in a gray fur coat, and a white fur coat guards him).

Experience 2. Why does a squirrel change its coat in winter?

The experiment is carried out similarly to the previous one, but two squirrel silhouettes are used: silver and red. They are shown to the child on a silver background and on a red background. When is it easier to see and guess who it is? Why does a squirrel change its coat? Let the kid guess on the basis of this experience.

Experience 3. Which coat is warmer?

AT cold weather take two pairs of mittens for a walk with your child - one light pair, autumn. And the other - winter, fluffy, thick. Let the baby first put on light mittens, and then warm ones. Which ones are warmer? Explain that animals also need warm clothes for the winter. But they don’t have mittens, hats, coats. Where do they get their winter coats from? It turns out that animals shed in the fall and change their fur coat for a thicker and warmer one!

Stories, poems and educational tasks for children on the topic "How animals prepare for winter"

Hare

In autumn, the bunny begins to change the color of the fur coat and shed. But the bunny does not shed immediately. And therefore, hares love to rub against the bushes to quickly get rid of the summer fur. He changed the bunny coat - it means that he is ready for winter! A winter coat will hide him from both the fox and the wolf!

Bunny. Alexander Blok.

little bunny
On a damp valley
Before the eyes were amused
White flowers...

burst into tears in autumn
thin blades,
Paws are advancing
On yellow leaves.

Gloomy, rainy
Autumn has come,
Removed all the cabbage
Nothing to steal.

The poor bunny is jumping
Near the wet pines
Scary in the paws of the wolf
Gray to get ...

Thinking about summer
presses his ears,
Squinting at the sky -
Can't see the sky...

Just to be warmer
Just to dry...
Very unpleasant
Walk on water!

Question for kids: Does the bunny enjoy autumn and winter? Why?

Useful advice: speech task for children. Older children can be told that little hares appear in the fall of a hare. This happens during leaf fall and therefore they have a very beautiful name. They are called ... (let the baby come up with his own name for the hares, show word creation). Praise him for any options, and then tell him what they really call such bunnies. They are called so beautifully - "fall leaves" !

The hare feeds her bunnies - leaf fall and runs away, leaving them alone. Hares, hiding, sit under a bush. Why does the hare throw them? It turns out that she leaves them so that the hare does not find in her footsteps wild beast! This is how she saves them! After all, hares have no smell, and no one can smell them. But the hare has a smell and enemies can smell it!

The hare's milk is very tasty, and the hare has enough milk for three days! And then a rabbit finds them. Bunnies feed not only their children, but also strangers' bunnies. They feed and run away so as not to attract enemies to the kids!

Read to the kid a fairy tale about a hare - leaf fall and how he met winter for the first time. From this fairy tale, the kid will learn how different animals preparing for winter.

Skrebitsky G.A. Fairy tale "Everyone in his own way"

In the summer in the forest, in a clearing, a hare was born to a long-eared hare. He was not born helpless, naked, like some kind of mice or squirrels, not at all. He was born in gray fluffy fur, with open eyes, so smart, independent, he could immediately run and even hide from enemies in thick grass.

Well done to me, - the hare told him in her hare language. - Lie here quietly under a bush, don't run anywhere, and if you start running, jumping, there will be traces of your paws on the ground. A fox or a wolf will stumble upon them, they will immediately find you on the trail and eat you. Well, be smart, relax, gain more strength, but I need to run, stretch my paws.

And the hare, having made a big jump, galloped off into the forest. Since then, the hare fed not only own mother, but also other hares, those that accidentally ran into this clearing. After all, the hares have got it so from time immemorial: a hare stumbles upon a baby, she doesn’t care whether she’s her own or someone else’s, she will definitely feed her with milk.

Soon the hare got stronger, grew up, began to eat juicy grass and run through the forest, getting acquainted with its inhabitants - birds and animals.

The days were fine, there was plenty of food around, and in the thick grass, in the bushes it was easy to hide from enemies.

The hare lived for himself, did not grieve. So, without caring about anything, he lived obliquely a warm summer.

But now autumn has come. It got cold. The trees withered. The wind tore off the withered leaves from the branches and circled over the forest. Then the leaves fell to the ground. They lay there restlessly: all the time fussing, whispering among themselves. And from this the forest was filled with an alarming rustle.

The hare could hardly sleep. Every minute he was alert, listening to suspicious sounds. It seemed to him that it was not the leaves rustling in the wind, but something terrible creeping up on him from behind the bushes.

The hare often jumped up during the day, ran from place to place, looking for safer shelters. Searched and did not find.

But, running through the forest, he saw a lot of new, interesting things that he had never seen before in the summer. He noticed that all his forest acquaintances - animals and birds - were fussing about something, doing something.

Once he met a squirrel, but she did not jump, as usual, from branch to branch, but descended to the ground, picked an aspen mushroom, then grabbed it tightly in her teeth and jumped up a tree with him. There, the squirrel stuck the mushroom into the fork between the knots.

The hare saw that several mushrooms were already hanging on the same tree.

Why do you tear them up and hang them on knots? - he asked.

What do you mean why? - answered the squirrel. - Winter will come soon, everything around will be covered with snow, then it will be difficult to get food. So now I'm in a hurry to prepare more stocks. I dry mushrooms on boughs, I collect nuts and acorns in hollows. Don't you stock up on food for the winter?

No, - answered the hare, - I can't do it. The bunny mom didn't teach me.

Your deeds are bad, - the squirrel shook its head. - Then insulate your nest at least better, plug all the cracks with moss.

Yes, I don’t even have a nest, - the hare was embarrassed. - I sleep under a bush, where I have to.

Well, that's no good! - the household squirrel spread its paws. - I don’t know how you will survive the winter without food supplies, without a warm nest.

And she again set to her chores, and the bunny sadly jumped on.

It was already evening, the hare reached a deaf ravine. There he stopped and listened attentively. Down the ravine with a slight noise every now and then small lumps of earth rolled down.

The hare got up on its hind legs to get a better look at what was going on there in front. Yes, this is a badger fussing near the hole. The hare ran up to him and greeted him.

Hello, oblique, - the badger answered. - Are you jumping? So sit down, sit down. Wow, I'm tired, even my paws hurt! Look how much earth was dug out of the hole.

Why are you ditching her? - the hare asked.

By winter, I clean the hole so that it is more spacious. I’ll clean it out, then I’ll drag the moss, the fallen leaves there, I’ll make a bed. Then I'm not afraid of winter. Lie down, lie down.

And the squirrel advised me to arrange a nest for the winter, - said the hare.

Don't listen to her, - the badger waved his paw. She learned how to build nests in trees from birds. Empty occupation. Animals need to live in a hole. This is the way I live. Help me dig better escape routes out of the hole. We will arrange everything as it is necessary, we will climb into the hole, we will spend the winter together.

No, I don't know how to dig a hole, - the hare answered. - Yes, and I can’t sit underground in a hole, I’ll suffocate there. It is better to rest under a bush.

Here the frost will soon show you how to rest under a bush! the badger answered angrily. - Well, if you don't want to help me, then run wherever you want. Don't bother me making a home.

Not far from the water, someone big, clumsy was fumbling near the aspen. “The beaver, he is the very one,” the stutterer saw, and in two jumps he found himself near him.

Hello buddy, what are you doing here? - asked the bunny.

Yes, I’m working, nibbling aspen, - the beaver answered slowly. I’ll throw it on the ground, then I’ll start biting the branches, dragging them into the river, I’ll warm my hut for the winter. You see, my house is on the island - it is built entirely of boughs, and the cracks are smeared with silt, inside I am warm, comfortable.

How do you get into your house? - asked the Bunny. - The entrance is nowhere to be seen.

The entrance to my hut is arranged below, under water. I will swim to the island, dive to the very bottom, and there I will find the entrance to my house. There is no better animal house than my hut. Let's insulate it together for the winter, together we will winter.

No, - the hare answered, - I don’t know how to dive and swim under water, I’ll drown right away, I’d rather spend the winter under a bush.

You shouldn't want to spend the winter with me, - answered the beaver and began to gnaw on the aspen.

Suddenly something rustles in the bushes! Oblique already wanted to take to his heels, but then an old acquaintance, a hedgehog, looked out of the fallen leaves.

Hello, buddy! he shouted. - Are you so sad, ears hanging out?

My friends upset me, - answered the hare. - They say you need to build a warm nest or a hut for the winter, but I don’t know how.

Building a hut? - the hedgehog laughed. - That's nonsense! You better do what I do: every night I eat more heartily, store more fat, and when there is enough reserve, then it will start to make me sleepy. Then I will climb into the fallen leaves, into the moss, curl up in a ball and fall asleep for the whole winter. And when you sleep, then neither frost nor wind are afraid of you.

No, - answered the hare, - I won’t be able to sleep through the whole winter. My sleep is sensitive, disturbing, I wake up every minute from every rustle.

Well, then do as you know, - answered the hedgehog. - Farewell, it's time for me to look after a place for my winter sleep.

And the animal again disappeared into the bushes.

The hare trudged further through the forest. Wandered, wandered. The night has already passed, the morning has come. He got out into the clearing. Looks - a lot of thrushes have gathered on it. All the trees are stuck around and jumping on the ground, shouting, crackling, arguing about something.

What are you arguing about? - the hare asked the thrush, which was sitting closer to him.

Yes, we are discussing when we fly from here for the winter to warm countries.

But won't you stay in our forest for the winter?

What are you, what are you! - the thrush was surprised. - In winter, snow will fall, cover all the earth and branches of trees. Where can you find food then? We fly with us to the south, where it is warm in winter and there is plenty of food.

Don't you see, I don't even have wings, - the hare answered sadly. I'm an animal, not a bird. Animals cannot fly.

That's not true, - objected the thrush. - The bats also animals, but they fly no worse than us birds. They have already flown south to warm countries.

The hare did not answer the thrush, he only waved his paw and ran away.

“How will I winter? he thought anxiously. - All animals and birds are preparing for winter in their own way. And I have neither a warm nest, nor food supplies, and I will not be able to fly south. I'll probably have to die of hunger and cold."

Another month has passed. Bushes and trees shed their last leaves. It's time for rain and cold. The forest became gloomy, dull. Most of the birds flew to warm countries. The animals hid in holes, in nests, in lairs. The hare was sad in the empty forest, and besides, trouble happened to him: the hare suddenly noticed that the skin on it began to turn white. Summer, gray wool was replaced by a new one - fluffy, warm, but completely white. First, the hind legs turned white, then the sides, then the back, and finally the head. Only the tips of the ears are black.

“How can I hide from enemies now? - the hare thought with horror. In a white fur coat, both the fox and the hawk will immediately notice me. And the hare hid in the very wilderness, under the bushes, in the marshy thickets. However, even there a white fur coat could easily give him away. keen eye predator.

But one day, when the hare was lying, climbing under a bush, he saw that everything around him somehow suddenly darkened. The sky was covered with clouds; however, it did not rain from them, but something white and cold fell down.

The first snowflakes swirled in the air, began to settle on the ground, on the faded grass, on the bare branches of bushes and trees. With every second, the snow fell thicker and thicker. It was already impossible to see the nearest trees. Everything drowned in a continuous white stream.

The snow stopped only in the evening. The sky cleared, the stars came out, bright and radiant, like blue frosty needles. They lit up the fields and forests, dressed up, covered with a white veil of winter.

Night had already fallen, and the hare was still lying under a bush. He was afraid to get out of his ambush and go for a night walk on this unusually white land.

Finally, hunger nevertheless forced him to leave the shelter and look for food.

Finding it was not so difficult - the snow only slightly covered the ground and did not even hide the smallest bushes.

But a completely different misfortune happened: as soon as the hare jumped out from under the bushes and ran across the clearing, he saw with horror that a string of his tracks followed him everywhere.

“Following such footprints, any enemy can easily find me,” thought the scythe.

Therefore, when in the morning he again went on a daytime rest, the hare, even more carefully than before, confused his tracks.

Only after doing this, he hid under a bush and dozed off.

But winter brought with it more than just grief. When dawn broke, the hare saw with joy that his white fur coat was completely invisible on the white snow. The bunny seemed to be dressed in an invisibility fur coat. In addition, it was much warmer than his summer gray skin, perfectly saved from frost and wind.

“Winter is not so terrible,” the hare decided and calmly dozed off for the whole day until evening.

But only the beginning of winter turned out to be so pleasant, and then things went from bad to worse. There was a lot of snow. It was almost impossible to tear it open to get to the surviving greenery. The hare ran in vain through the high snowdrifts in search of food. It was not often that he managed to chew on some twig sticking out from under the snow.

One day, running in search of food, the hare saw forest giants moose. They calmly stood in the aspen and gnawed with appetite the bark and shoots of young aspens.

“Let me try, too,” thought the hare. “But the trouble is: elks have high legs, long necks, it’s easy for them to reach young shoots, but how can I get it?”

But then a high snowdrift caught his eye. The hare jumped on it, stood on its hind legs, easily reached out to the young, thin branches and began to gnaw them. Then he gnawed the bark of the aspen. All this seemed very tasty to him, and he ate his fill.

“So the snow hasn’t done much trouble,” the scythe decided. “He hid the grass, but he let the branches of bushes and trees get to him.”

Everything would be fine, only the frost and the wind began to pester the hare. Even a warm coat did not save him. There was nowhere to hide from the cold in the bare winter forest.

"Wow, how cold!" - said the oblique, running through the forest clearing to warm up a little.

The day had already come, it was high time to go on vacation, but the hare still could not find a place for himself to hide from the icy wind.

Birch trees grew on the very edge of the clearing. Suddenly, the hare saw that they were calmly sitting on them and feeding large forest birds- black grouse. They flew here to feast on the catkins that hung at the ends of thin branches.

Well, you've eaten - it's time to rest, - the old black grouse said to his brothers. - Let's hide in the minks from the angry wind.

“What kind of minks can grouse have?” - the bunny was surprised.

But then he saw that the old black grouse, having fallen off the branch, fell in a lump right into the snow, as if diving into the water. Other black grouse did the same, and soon the whole flock disappeared under the snow.

"Is it really warm in there?" - the hare was surprised and decided to immediately try to dig a snow mink for himself. And what? In the mink under the snow it turned out to be much warmer than on the surface. The wind did not blow, and the frost pestered much less.

Since then, the hare has become quite accustomed to how he spends the winter. White coat in a white forest hid him from the eyes of the enemy, snowdrifts helped to get to the succulent shoots, and a deep mink in the snow saved him from the cold. The hare felt in the winter among the snow-covered bushes no worse than in the summer in the green flowering thickets. He did not even notice how the winter had passed.

And now the sun warmed up again, melted the snow, the grass turned green again, the leaves on the bushes and trees blossomed. From southern countries the birds returned.

A bustling squirrel crawled out of its nest where it hid in the winter from the cold. A badger, a beaver and a prickly hedgehog got out of their shelters. Each of them told about how he spent the long winter. Everyone believed that he spent it better than others. And all together they were surprised, looking at the hare. How, poor fellow, did he spend the winter without a warm nest, without a hole, without food supplies? And the bunny listened to his friends and only laughed. After all, he lived quite well in the winter in his snow-white invisible fur coat.

Even now, in the spring, he also wore an invisibility coat, only different, the color of the earth - not white, but gray.

Look with a child cartoon about a hare - leaf fall "Hares scared the hare."

Exercise 1. Discuss with the baby what is true in this cartoon, and what is a fairy tale. For example, it is true that a hare changes its coat. But the fairy tale is that he changes her like people. The hare sheds, but does not change clothes! Another example. It is true that a new fur coat does not appear at the bunny immediately, but in parts. But the fairy tale is that a bunny can “change clothes” into a new fur coat in a minute. What else in this cartoon is a true story, and what is a fairy tale?

Task 2. After watching the cartoon, play game "Does it happen or not?" You ask a question, and the child answers it with either "Trick truck, it's true!" or "Trick truck, it's not!". Hyperactive children like to respond with movement, such as tapping and slapping to the rhythm, or even jumping up and down when answering questions. Let them do it with pleasure and joy. It only helps the game and does not hinder in any way!

Sample tasks for the game.

The first phrase is the task of the adult, the second phrase is the answer of the baby.

• The hare changes its coat for the winter. - Backgammon, that's right!
• The hare lives in a hut. - Backgammon, it's not like that!
• The hare lives with the hare. -Backgammon. this is not true!
• The hare is friends with the wolf. - Backgammon, it's not like that!
• The fall leaf has never seen winter. -Trick-track, that's right!

Think of any questions of your own. In this game, children will be happy to answer them, and at the same time we will consolidate the ideas that the child has about the world around him. From my own experience I know that children love this game very much, they just adore it! If you play with several children, then you can play like this: for a mistake, the player leaves the game and joins the leader. Whoever stayed to the last in the game and never made a mistake - he won!

When playing with big group children can introduce movement. To the words "Trick-track, it's so!" The children clap their hands. To the words “Trick truck, it’s not like that,” they put their hands behind their backs and stamp their feet to the rhythm of the phrase. Then you will very accurately see who made a mistake and who did not!

You can read about how hares live in winter in the article.

Bear

The bear also prepares for winter in autumn. In winter, he will sleep in a den, but after all, the house - the den must first be prepared! The bear makes a wintering den under an uprooted tree in a dry place.

Before going to the den and falling asleep, the bear confuses its tracks so that no one will find it. He walks through the forest in loops, walks through the windbreak, through the trees to hide his tracks. If there is someone nearby, then the bear will never go to its lair! Will wait for everyone to leave and confuse their tracks!

The bear goes to bed before the first snow so that his footprints are not visible in the snow. Interestingly, bears go to bed with their heads to the south.

In autumn, a bear needs to eat a lot to survive the winter. Bears love to go to oat fields in autumn and feast on oats. Perhaps your mother cooks you porridge from oats? Such porridge is called "Hercules" because it gives a person a lot of strength. Oats give strength to people, animals, and birds. Therefore, bears need oats so much in autumn! The bear eats up in the fall not only with oats, but also with fish, ants, beetles, autumn berries, so that it is enough for the whole winter.

Before hibernation bears also change their coats for winter, warm, thick, long and fluffy. Only the bears have both summer and winter coats of the same color.

The bear does not fall asleep immediately, in cold winter he sleeps soundly, but in the thaw he sleeps sensitively.

Why does a bear sleep in winter? V. Orlov

Bear, bear, what's wrong with you?

Why do you sleep in winter?

Because snow and ice

Not raspberries and not honey!

Bear. I. Tokmakova

Like on a hill - snow, snow,

And under the hill - snow, snow,

And on the tree - snow, snow,

And under the tree - snow. Snow.

A bear is sleeping under the snow!

Hush hush. Keep quiet!

Task for kids: Watch a cartoon with your child - a fairy tale about a bear cub "The First Winter". Why is this a fairy tale, and not a story (a lot is invented in a fairy tale, but the story talks about what really happens). What from the cartoon is a fairy tale, and what really exists?

Hedgehog

How often do we see in cartoons a joyful hedgehog carrying mushrooms on its needles. But in fact, the hedgehog is preparing for winter in a completely different way!

In autumn, the hedgehog prepares a home for the winter. The hedgehog's house is called "burrow". The hedgehog strings leaves on its back, and then shakes them off in the hole. And at night and during the day the hedgehog works, making himself a cozy house - he carries moss and leaves into it. From moss and leaves, the hedgehog will make himself a soft warm winter bed! Then he will climb into his hole, bury himself in leaves and warm moss and fall asleep in a sweet dream for the whole winter! And wake up in the spring!

There is another myth about the hedgehog that he picks apples in autumn for his food. This is not true either! In autumn, there are a lot of ticks in the forest, which climb between hedgehog needles and are very worried about hedgehogs. Hedgehogs save themselves by planting apples on their needles. It turns out malic acid, which is very afraid of insects. That's why the hedgehog wears apples in the fall!

Hedgehog. I. S. Sokolov - Mikitov

Through stumps and logs, through high overgrown bumps, through open forest glades, a hedgehog makes its way to its lair.
In autumn, hedgehogs have little prey. Worms hid in the ground, nimble lizards disappeared, slippery snakes and black snakes twisted into balls. It's hard to find bugs and stupid frogs.
In clear autumn days the hard-working hedgehog prepares for himself a warm winter hut. Night and day it drags fragrant dry leaves and soft forest moss into a hole under an old stump - it makes a winter bed.
Soon the hedgehog will climb into its lair for the whole long winter. He will no longer run through the forest, catching worms and bugs.
Winter will come, a deep snowdrift will cover his hole. Under a deep snowdrift, as under a thick fluffy blanket, it's warm to a hedgehog.
No one will find his lair, no one will wake him up. Until the spring sun, the hedgehog will sleep all winter, and he will have forest hedgehog dreams.

Poor hedgehog. V. Oseeva
sleeping bear,
The jackdaw fell asleep
Sleep overcame the fox.
I am not sleeping
I'm very sorry
hedgehog in the forest

poor hedgehog,
Poor hedgehog.
Doesn't sleep at night!
All in needles
Can't lie down
Sits and sits.

It will lie on the barrel - sharply,
The back is prickly.
I couldn't have spent the whole night under the tree
Sit without sleep.

How will he put himself to sleep?
I would take the skin off!
poor hedgehog,
poor hedgehog,
How can I help you?

Task for children: Can a hedgehog really sleep in his coat of needles? How does a hedgehog sleep? (He curls up into a ball, and therefore is not afraid of enemies. He is reliably protected by needles! And he sleeps on a soft bed of leaves and fur, he is cozy and comfortable)

Article continued:

• You will learn about how a beaver, a badger, a mouse, a fox and a wolf prepare for winter, how to make a finger theater on the topic “How animals prepare for winter”, what dramatizations - conversations of animals you can think up and play with the help of a finger theater you will learn from continuation of the article - its second part
• In the third part You will find
• In the fourth part You will find a video for children about how animals and birds prepare for winter based on the story of G. Skrebitsky

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Presentation "How animals prepare for winter"

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Winter is a difficult period for many representatives of the animal kingdom on our planet. The starting point for them is autumn. Animals prepare for winter precisely with the onset of this time of year. Each zoological species is prepared in its own way: some animals switch to "winter" fur, others have time to stock up on "food", and still others, having gained enough fat over the summer, are forgotten in their winter sleep. But what kind of animals meet the winter in full "combat readiness"? How do they do it? In this article, you will learn with a few examples which animals are preparing for winter and how they do it.

How do hamsters prepare for winter?

Winter time in the northern regions is perhaps the most stressful and responsible time in the life of small rodents. In order to avoid starvation and cold death, many small animals stock up on significant food supplies. For example, living in the steppes Western Siberia and Europe, prepares for winter in the following way: during the fall, the rodent gains several kilograms (!) of selected grains and root crops. He does it diligently and complaisantly: the hamster spends all day transporting crops from the fields to his "bins", dragging the grains in his cheek pouches.

How do voles meet winter?

It is interesting to meet winter and many voles. These cute mice start harvesting grass already in spring, putting it in small piles under certain shelters (for example, under stones). In summer, voles bring wild rose flowers, leaves, cones and needles there. The active activity of these creatures ends in autumn, when the first snow covers the mountain meadows. Scientists have calculated the seasonal supply of these animals: one family of voles stores from 5 to 10 kg of food!

Real sleepyheads!

How do animals prepare for winter yet? Some negligent animals fully justify their name, hibernating for the winter. Mother Nature decreed in such a way that these sloths do not even burden themselves with worries about Really, why? After all, you can just go to sleep! Who are these lazy little creatures? Yes, it's Sony! Small rodents that look like squirrels. They live mainly in European forests, for which they were nicknamed forest dormouse.

Before the onset of cold weather, forest dormice begin to noticeably gain weight. They get fat until they weigh a couple of times their normal weight and look like a small fur pouch. These creatures sleep in spherical nests, twisted by them especially for wintering. At least they are active! Zoologists are touched by the sight of a sleeping forest dormouse: the rodent curls up into a very tight ball, pressing its nose and small paws to its abdomen. At the same time, the fluffy tail in a semicircle covers almost the entire body of the animal.

Wild animals are preparing for winter. Brown bear

Close to forest dormouse the club-footed ones also left. In particular, the owner of the Russian taiga is the brown bear. Bears are those who do not arrange any pantries for themselves, preferring to hibernate for the winter. Speaking in the language of metaphor, clubfoot heavyweights are their own "pantries", because all summer and all autumn they try to eat large stocks subcutaneous fat in your body. Moreover, fat is an excellent "insulation" in winter time of the year!

Clubfoot begin to fatten when the berry ripens in the forest. While the animals prepare for winter in one way or another, the bears diligently feed on plant rhizomes, berries, nuts, etc. A favorite delicacy brown bear is honey. For the sake of its sweet and alluring taste, the beast is ready to endure the stings of angry wild bees for hours. But the bearish “menu”, of course, is not limited to plant food only. Do not forget that this beast is a real predator, therefore, along with berries and nuts, these animals feed on young deer, hares, foxes, wolves and fish. It doesn't cost anything for a bear to pick up an adult elk!

But gaining subcutaneous fat is only half the battle. Before the onset of prolonged cold weather, the clubfoot must have time to find a secluded place for a future lair. Bears do it with enviable care. As soon as the place is found, the beast proceeds to "construction": it digs a hole in the ground, insulating it with branches, moss, needles and other improvised materials. If in this or that forest the search for a place for a den was unsuccessful, the bear may covet someone else's shelter. Some of them even drive the current guest out of there and lie there themselves. Here it is - bearish preparation for winter!

Quiet in the forest: beavers, hedgehogs and badgers sleep

Speaking about how animals prepare for winter (pictures with some representatives of the fauna world are presented in the article), one cannot but say about badgers, beavers and, of course, hedgehogs. For example, beavers have been harvesting a lot of twigs since summer, taking them underwater to their huts. There they put the "building material" in piles.

Badgers, on the other hand, decided to follow the example of clubfoot: they also store subcutaneous fat for the winter. In addition, it is easier for them (than bears) to build a shelter for the winter, and, it should be noted, they are quite adept at their task. Zoologists say that some of these animals can prepare for winter in just one day! It is curious that sometimes a badger "invites" a raccoon neighbor to its shelter. Both animals get along well in a hole, whiling away winter evenings together.

Hedgehogs are insectivorous, preferring to spend the winter time hibernating. To do this, they are looking for secluded holes for themselves, located at a distance of 1.5 m from the surface of the earth. Hedgehogs, like bears, sleep all winter. Before leaving for winter dream these insectivores feed diligently, accumulating the same subcutaneous fat, allowing them to sleep through the whole season without any problems. If a hedgehog goes into hibernation skinny, then he simply has no chance to survive the winter. Despite the name of their order (insectivores), these creatures eat not only insects, but also frogs, snails, lizards, mice, bird eggs.

What other animals are preparing for winter?

The pictures presented in this article are not chosen randomly: they depict the most prominent representatives animal kingdoms that are preparing for winter. This is done not only by large animals, but also by very tiny creatures - insects. Ants, for example, before the onset of severe cold weather, begin to rebuild large anthills. With the help of wax, bees close their notch more tightly, leaving only tiny holes-holes.

The question of how animals prepare for winter will not be fully disclosed, if not to mention our smaller feathered brothers. Many birds fly to warmer climes for the winter, returning to their "native land" only in spring (storks, cranes, rooks). They are called migratory. But not all birds do this. There are, i.e., those who stay for the winter in their native lands. These are predominantly urban birds (sparrows, pigeons, tits).

Hares, wolves and foxes

In autumn some forest dwellers they change "summer" furs to "winter", i.e., by molting, they shed the old light wool, acquiring new and warm ones. In some animals, the color of fur coats also changes, for example, in hares. Their gray fur coat turns into white, which allows them to remain almost unnoticed against the backdrop of snow. These animals do not make any winter stocks. They also do not hibernate. In winter, hares feed mainly on the bark of young trees.

Wolves and foxes, like hares, do not go into winter sleep, but actively roam the forest in the cold season in search of food, for example, the same hares. These animals also molt, but the color of the coat does not change.

So, in this article, using some examples, we talked about how animals prepare for winter. As an example, we took the brightest and well-known representatives fauna world.

The wind rips lonely leaves from the trees, makes noise, laughs at night in the pipes. Dull throws his small splashes on the ground. Autumn. She undresses the forest, cools the water. Increasingly, in the mornings, Luzkytsy are covered with brittle ice. But the snowflakes were spinning and dancing. Winter is coming soon! Those who are supposed to have left. These are many birds, some,. They rushed south for the winter. But there are a lot of those who stayed at home. Deep under water huddled in the corners of the fish. Insects, spiders, centipedes hid. The newt, which lived all summer in the pond, crawled out onto land, looking for a comfortable place in the moss.

Prepared for winter and the trees dropped their leaves. But annual grasses not only took care of themselves, but also of their offspring: they scattered the seeds. So they will winter under the snow until next spring.

The animals are in a hurry. Some dress in warm fur coats, others rush to fill their pantries, prepare food for the future. And there are those who are their own pantry. , badger and many animals sleep all winter. In the meantime, they accumulate fat. They're in a hurry. There is no time to rest: the frost will strike, forge the earth, where will you get food then, where will you hide? Everyone prepares, and each in his own way. Pyotr Petrovich Smolin, a great connoisseur of nature, will tell you about this.

In the years of the harvest of pine nuts, autumn is a real holiday for everyone forest dwellers. Who just does not regale on delicious, satisfying nuts! And bears, and, and chipmunks, and baby red voles. Yes, they not only regale themselves, but also make stocks. The striped chipmunk stuffs his "pockets" - cheek pouches with nuts and drags them to a secluded place, under a stone slab. True, shelter is not always reliable. Hunt down the industrious beast clumsy bear, turn over a stone with a powerful paw and eat all the chipmunk stocks. And if the owner of the pantry gapes, then he himself will go for a snack to the shaggy robber. The owner of the taiga is not too lazy to climb a tree himself, eat nuts directly from the branches, leaving a pile of broken branches after his “dinner”.

But not the bear gets the bulk of the nuts. The main guest of the cedar feast is the nutcrackers, elegant relatives of jackdaws and crows. Their beautiful dark brown plumage, like pearls, is dotted with white spots. A flock of nutcrackers will fly in - and the cones will be empty in an instant. Do not think that nutcrackers are such gluttons. They eat only part of the nuts, they hide the rest in reserve, sometimes taking them away from their native places. But feathered harvesters do not always eat up their stocks. Often they forget where they hid them and never find them. And "settlers" begin to grow in new places. And then ... The inhabitants of the highlands carry the nuts of the "new settlers" farther and farther. As a result, in the vast expanses - from Baikal to the upper reaches of the Lena, there is a zone of cedar stlanets - a high-mountain cedar bush. He moved to Kamchatka and Sakhalin. So the forest workers do not know what to do: whether to thank the nutcracker for her diligence, or to prosecute for the destruction of nuts. Of course, you should not pursue the nutcracker, but you need to learn how to scare it away.

GRAIN PROCESSERS

Most quadrupeds wear modest attire. But there are exceptions to every rule. And such an exception among small animals is considered to be a hamster. It has a jet-black chest and abdomen, white paws, white spots on the muzzle and sides on a bright red background and a yellow-gray back. As if showing off, he often becomes a column, showing his colorful outfit. It is not in vain that the hamster dressed up so much, and it is not in vain that he flaunts his outfit.

In the winter snowy season, each animal tells about itself with the traces of its paws. But no matter how you look, you will not find hamster tracks in the snow. This doesn't happen. A hamster sits deep in a hole in winter, but does not sleep, like marmots, ground squirrels and jerboas. He prepared in advance for a difficult time, and now he does not care about winter.

At the end of summer and autumn, the hamster has a hard time - the season of grain harvesting. Near his house, he digs capacious storerooms and fills them with selected grain. Not without reason, when a hamster's reserves are found, its grain goes to the seed fund. Hamster's paws work tirelessly, peeling grain from spikelets. And the animal carries it in voluminous cheek pouches. With tightly stuffed "pockets" the hamster hurries to the pantry. He beats himself with his paws on the cheeks, throws out the grain and immediately goes for a new portion.

The hamster collects its supplies near the hole. There is no reason for a hamster to stray far from her: you can pay with your life in this way. On short hamster legs, you can’t really run away from a swift or winged predator. So the hamster has to strictly ensure that no other hamster collects grain near his hole. According to strict hamster laws, the tricolor outfit of the animal is a signal to relatives: the place is occupied, you need to look for another one. This is the key to the hamster outfit: the yellow-gray back reliably hides the animal from all enemies, and as soon as the hamster rises on its hind legs, its tricolor skin is clearly evident at any time of the day, warning unlucky relatives that the area of ​​​​grain preparations is an inviolable territory and absolutely forbidden for other hamsters.

FOUR-LEGED MISTERS

Can there be hay for ... animals? It's hard to believe this, but it happens. They live in the steppes and mountain-forest regions, funny short little animals with round ears. They live in colonies and warn each other of danger with a loud, drawn-out whistle. For this whistle they called them pikas. They also have another name - haystacks. And that's why.

Pikas - relatives of hares, as well as their long-eared brothers, love to feast on green grass. But unlike hares, pikas feed on grass. all year round. In spring and summer they eat it on the vine, and at the end of summer and autumn they start haymaking. And, just like people, they pull dried grass, small branches of wild rosemary, raspberries and thin shoots of undersized birches into stacks. Shreds of hay push the animal into the cracks between the stones, under the canopies of uprooted roots. And in winter they visit their haystacks every now and then. Reddish desert pikas, inhabitants of the Transcaspian region, hay twice a year: in late spring and autumn.

Irina Kolesova
How do animals prepare for winter?

1 slide. The title of the presentation is "How Animals Prepare for Winter"

Hare

In winter, the hare changes his fur coat to White color. Belly, front legs and ears turn white. Then the sides and back of the body. In early December, the hare is already completely white. Long-ears have a bad time when there is no snow for a long time, and they have already shed. White fur betrays them to enemies.

Bear

The bear hibernates in a den. The place is chosen dry, located in a crevice or rock. Before the onset of sleep, the bear eats little to empty the stomach and seal it. During hibernation, the bear does not sleep deeply, dozes, and in case of danger meets the enemy.

Fox

With the advent of winter, the fox changes its fur, to a more lush one, by molting. During the day, she usually sleeps in her burrow, and at night she hunts mice and other rodents. Sometimes, due to lack of food, the fox will steal poultry if it lives near the village. In preparation for winter, the fox digs a hole in groves or on the slopes of ravines.

Wolf

The wolf is dangerous and cunning beast. It is not easy for them to live among the snowy forest, but it is possible. In winter, wolves gather in packs to catch prey more easily. pack of wolves for a short time can catch and divide a wild boar, and alone a wolf is almost impossible to do.

Squirrel

Squirrels do not tolerate frost well and are forced to hide in the thicket of the forest. most winters. The squirrel begins to prepare food for itself long before winter. In general, the squirrel drags acorns, nuts, mushrooms, and cones onto tree branches all year round. Then the squirrel dries the food on stumps or high branches of trees and eats it.

beavers

Beavers start preparing for winter long before it starts. It builds a dwelling at the water level or slightly lower, and in winter it is completely under the ice. They are warmer there. The dwellings built by the beaver are very strong, they bind the pieces of wood with plants and river clay. The beaver needs enough food for the winter, because they do not hibernate, but only lower their energy.

Badger

In winter, the badger lives in a hole that it makes in the fall. Inside, he equips everything with dry grass, leaves, moss, so that it is as warm as possible. The badger also stocks up on food with the beginning of autumn. The food for the badger is the roots of plants, seeds, acorns, fruits of various plants.

Hedgehog

Hedgehogs begin to prepare for winter in early autumn. They look for a deep hole, at least one and a half meters deep, otherwise in a cold winter with severe frosts, hedgehogs can simply freeze and not survive. They warm it with dry leaves and moss, clog the hole and hibernate.

Chipmunk

Chipmunks gather food supplies all day long and hide them in their burrows to provide themselves with food for the whole winter. Chipmunks feed on nuts, berries, plant seeds and even insects. When chipmunks find something edible, they grab it and quickly stuff it into their mouths, into their cheek pouches, and then they carry it into the hole. Chipmunks live in burrows with intricate passages, which, depending on their subspecies and habitat, they usually dig in dense thickets of bushes, near fallen trees or stumps.

Elk

First of all, females with cubs move to wintering, followed by adult moose. During the period of frost, moose hide up to their withers in the thickness of loose snow, and during the period strong winds or during a snowstorm, the animals hide in the thicket of coniferous young growth. Moose lay down under the wind in a semicircle and freeze in the direction of the trail.

Lynx

By winter, as a rule, the lynx eats up a small subcutaneous fat reserve, which, coupled with thick, dense hair, reliably protects it from frost. Powerful wide paws allow it to quickly move through the crust and snow, without falling through and without restricting movement.

Mice

Preparing for frosts, mice dig the main passages and multi-storey minks. Under the roots of trees, as well as in places where snowdrifts are the largest in winter, they dig holes.

Gopher

In ground squirrels, long before hibernation, an increased secretion of male steroid hormones begins in the body, due to which they muscle mass increases by a quarter. This and also body fat, allow you to safely overwinter.

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For the lesson you will need:

• animal figurines, or Stuffed Toys, or their images;
• game "find the shadow" - print;
• vata - "snow";
• riddles (you can print below);
• the story "How animals prepare for winter" (you can print it below).

We arrange toys of forest animals (which are at home) on the carpet. You can use soft toys, you can use rubber or plastic figurines of animals, you can also use pictures.

We conduct observation of nature (through the window):
It's autumn outside - it's cloudy, windy, the sky is overcast gray clouds, the last leaves flew from the trees, we remember that there are almost no insects on the street - they all hid from the cold. Winter will come soon, the first snow will fall and it will become even colder outside and there will be less food for animals. We invite the child to go to the forest and find out how animals prepare for winter.
We come to the "clearing" where the animals of the forest are placed - a hedgehog, a fox, a hare, a bear, a wolf, etc.

We invite the child to solve riddles and find out what wild animals live in the forest. The child shows a guess - an animal toy.

She is smarter than all the animals
She has a red coat on.
A fluffy tail is her beauty.
This beast of the forest - ....
(Fox)

He sleeps in a den in winter,
Snoring little by little
And wake up, well, roar,
What is his name? - ...
(Bear)

White in winter and gray in summer.
He does not offend anyone, but he is afraid of everyone.
(Hare)

Who through the pines and firs
Dexterously jumps, branches oppression,
He sees where the cones are ripe,
And he carries himself in the hollow?
(Squirrel)

Grey, scary and toothy
Made a stir.
All the animals ran away.
Scared the animals of those ...
(Wolf)

So he built a dam
We need twigs and mud -
Builds everything without an ax
There will be a house at ... .
(Beaver)

On an autumn day, on a beautiful day
Looks like a spiny ball
Walking along the forest path
I found a mushroom in a clearing.
And mushrooms - I'll tell you -
Like it very much....
(Hedgehog)

Small stature, long tail,
Gray coat, sharp teeth.
(mouse)

This beast with two fangs
With very powerful legs
And with a tortilla on the nose.
He digs the ground in the forest.
(Boar)

From the box we scatter "snow" - cotton wool, reciting the poem "First Snow" by I. Bursov or any other:

Look guys
All around covered with cotton wool!
And in response there was laughter:
- It was the first snow.
Only Lyuba disagrees:
- It's not snow at all -
Santa Claus brushed his teeth
And scattered the powder.

Here comes the first snow! Winter will come soon. Animals are you ready for winter? Who got ready?
We read a fairy tale from the "Forest Book":



We are talking about the story. using animal toys:
- How does a squirrel, a hare prepare for winter?
- How will a hedgehog or a bear escape from the cold?
- What will the fox and the wolf do in winter?
etc.

Then we do finger gymnastics:

Finger boy, where have you been?
I wandered through the forest for a long time.
I met a bear, a wolf,
bunny, hedgehog in needles,
met a squirrel, fox,
met an elk and a titmouse,
Gave gifts to everyone
everyone thanked me.
(we bend our fingers when listing)

We play with toys or their images in the game "What has changed?":
We arrange the toys in a row, ask the child to close his eyes and remove one toy. The child opens his eyes, we say that one animal ran away, please remember who.
We play 4-5 times.

Dana liked it so much that he decided to play again, only this time she had to guess who was hiding mom):



Then you can play the game "Find the shadow":

I thought my lesson would end there, but Dana wanted something else, so we decided to make a mink for a hedgehog. But if your child gets tired, it's better to make a mink next time.
For this we need: cardboard (we have it from under the jars baby puree), scissors, glue or tape, and of course the hedgehog itself.

We glue the cardboard in the form of a tunnel, it would be nice to do more back wall but I did hastily, so we have a mink with 2 exits.
We cover the cardboard with plasticine - we smear it (and this is a great workout for our fingers).

Having covered the cardboard with plasticine, we stick leaves, twigs, acorn lids, rowan berries (unfortunately, all that we have left of natural material, these are a few leaves, of course I wanted to make it even more beautiful, but there was nothing more to decorate, because there was already dirt on the street and the first snow fell, so something like that).
That's all! The hedgehog's mink is ready and he can sleep peacefully all winter.

And then Danya decided that it was snowing).

- All animals are ready for winter: some have changed their coats from summer to winter ones, some have stocked up, and some will sleep. And the hedgehog even has a mink ready.
We say goodbye to the animals and "leave".