Acorn Elves for kindergartens, schools and pensioners

It always makes me very happy when I get feedback on the acorn elves (if it’s positive, all the better :)) and I’m even happier when I learn from various emails what the acorn elves are helping to do. Recently, I have received several messages from primary and kindergarten teachers describing how they work with acorn elves in their classroom or daycare. I have also been working for some time with Marcela Gűttner from the Litvínov Library, who uses acorn elvs to work with the elderly in various brain training programmes. I have therefore decided to write here all the information that could also serve other teachers in schools, kindergartens, after-school clubs or even in retirement homes.

I will be glad if you write to me how you work with acorn elves in your school/kindergarten, or if you need any help (prepare an unusual products, diploma, poster…)

Outdoor activities

  • In the summer you can build houses in the woods or park for the acorn elves – I once announced a whole holiday competition on this topic, you can see the resulting photos of the houses in this gallery.
  • In the autumn, many schools (even kindergartens) have creative workshops where children first collect a lot of materials in the forest (acorns, pine cones, boxwood, leaves, sticks) and then use a melting gun to glue them together to make acorn elves – it’s not difficult.
  • It’s not just the acorn elves that have to stick together, but all sorts of strange creatures. In the next fun phase, you can then make up a funny name or a whole botanical name (genus and species name) for the critters together – see my autumn nature creations in memory game.
  • A game of hide and seek – take a glued together acorn elf and hide it in the woods (but make sure you can see a bit of it). The children will then try to find it (and you can help them with various clues).

Indoor activities

  • You can hand out postcards (or printed pictures) and give them the task of coming up with a story or rhyme to go with the picture.
  • Randomly draw 6 postcards (printed pictures) from a larger number (or you can use half of the memory cards (so that the pictures don’t repeat)) and the task is to create a story based on them, so that it contains all six pictures in any order
  • You can play memory game with the children, or other games based on the acorn elves memory game cards.
  • You can invent what the acorn elves are talking about (a picture of an oak tree with a dog, a cat or a picture of several acorn elves) 
  • Alternatively, print out a blank acorn elves comic book and write funny texts in it
  • You can draw, paint, make collages, draw acorn elves from a story you’ve read

Rewards for children

If you want to give children small rewards for completing tasks, you can use the following acorn elves products

Freebies for download

I am attaching a list of documents that you may find useful for further work. If you can think of anything else, write me, I’ll be happy to create something new and useful