Learning & Discovery

Color outline letters A–Z, digits 0–9 and pictures with shapes, repeating patterns or matching pairs. Choose a large letter or a simple counting picture, or explore more detailed garden and classroom scenes. On paper, count the objects, find a matching pair or use colors to highlight a repeating pattern.

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Choose what to observe

Start with one small object, or explore a scene with several observation tools.

A girl sits on a stump and studies an acorn with a magnifying glass, beside a collecting basket beneath oak branches.

An acorn up close

A girl holds an acorn beside a magnifying glass. Compare the crossed lines on its cap with the unmarked lower part.

Girl Examining an Acorn →
An astronaut floats in a space station laboratory holding a clear container with a small plant, beside a microscope and an Earth-view window.

More tools in a space laboratory

An astronaut holds a plant container beside test tubes and a microscope. Choose this for a longer search for objects and shapes.

Plant Experiment in Space →

Find the same two parts on four acorns

Print the linked original. Color the acorn in the girl's hand and the three on the upper branches; use the two numbered parts as your guide.

Digital coloring example

Digital example of four golden tan and brown acorns, one held and three on branches; girl, magnifying glass, basket acorns and woodland left white
A digital color suggestion, not a photograph of a printed result. Open the original line drawing to print and try your own colors.
  • 1. Golden tan acorn body
  • 2. Brown cap and short stem
  1. Color the smooth lower bodies of the held acorn and all three acorns on the upper branches golden tan. Stop at their caps and at the girl's fingers.
  2. Color those four acorns' patterned caps and short stems brown. Keep the crossing lines visible; leave the basket acorns and all other areas white.

Count four colored acorns: one in the hand and three above. On each, point to the crossed cap lines and the plain lower part. Find those two parts on an uncolored basket acorn too.

Make an observation and ask a question

Use the printed page, a pencil and a spare sheet.

  1. Sketch one acorn and write something visible, such as “The cap has crossing lines.”
  2. Under it, write a question the drawing cannot answer, such as “How would this surface feel?” Keep the observation and question on separate lines.

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