Indoor Activities
We have a selection of craft, baking, colouring and writing activities below!
For even more activities, see the People's Trust for Endangered Species Hedgehog activities website by clicking here.
Activity Bingo
How many activities can you cross off the bingo sheet?
Take Our Online Quiz!
To take the quiz, you can either complete it in the box to the left (you should be able to scroll down within the box to fill in all the answers) or to view it full screen, click this link to be taken to the google form. Remember to check your answers at the end!
There is also a PDF version that can be printed out. This can be found by clicking this link and downloading it to your computer. Even if you complete the PDF version, we would love for you to submit your answers to the form!
Make sure to see below for an adorable illustrated quiz by Lily in Space!
Take Our Illustrated Quiz!
Have a go at our wonderful illustrated quiz. You can save and print this out by right clicking and choosing 'save as'.
Make sure to try our online quiz above too for even more hedgehog facts!
Hedgehog Finger and Potato Painting
Time for some painting...without paintbrushes!
Get an adult to cut a potato in half
Cut the potato half into a hedgehog shape - you could also use a cookie cutter to cut a shape!
Dip the flat half into paint and print onto paper
Decorate your print - you could use a fork (with guidance of an adult) to dip into paint and press it on the paper for the spikes, or use your fingers to draw spikes too! Use your fingers and the paint to add the hedgehog's eyes and other features. It doesn't have to be naturally coloured, and you could add googly eyes and other decorations too! How about making a whole hedgehog family?
Hedgehog Baking
Our Hedgehog Awareness Week bake-off competition might be over, but that doesn't mean you need to stop creating delicious hedgehog bakes! Our winner Tabitha Goulty's baked alaska is shown to the left, as well as more wonderful bakes below.
Why not combine your love for hedgehogs and baking? There's lots of recipes online from cakes, bread, cupcakes, biscuits, cake pops, pastry and more, or why not create your own design?!
Get creative and have fun! Make sure they taste good too!
Write a Hedgehog Story or Poem
What do you think it would be like to be a hedgehog for a day? Where would you go? What dangers do you think you would face, and how would you find food? Are there any other animals you might bump into on your adventures?
Write a hedgehog story or a poem and see where your imagination takes you!
Hedgehog Playdough
Why not have a go at making your own hedgehog out of playdough?
Ingredients
Cup (child's drinking cup is perfect!)
2 cups of flour
1 cup of salt
1 tablespoon of oil
Up to 1 cup of water mixed with food colouring
Recipe
Mix the flour, salt and oil together in a bowl
Slowly add the water and mix to make a squidgy dough - if it becomes too sticky add more flour
Squeeze/mould the playdough into a ball and pinch one end to make a snout for the hedgehog
Add pipe cleaners/lolly sticks/pasta or be inventive to make the hedgehog’s spikes
Add beads/buttons/googly eyes for the hedgehog’s eyes
(If you would like to add biodegradable glitter to the playdough recipe, it’s better to mix it with the flour and salt before adding the oil and water!)
Hedgehog Wordsearch
How many of our hedgehog words can you find? If you find them all, do some research to find out what they all mean in relation to hedgehogs! For instance what is 'hibernation'? Do you know what a 'mammal' is? How about what 'foraging' means?
You can right click the wordsearch and 'save as' and also download it as a PDF following this link.
Label a Hedgehog
How many hedgehog facts can you think of? Right click the hedgehog outline and click 'save as' to save the picture to your computer. Then you can print it out and label the hedgehog! There is also a labelled example shown for some fact ideas, and some additional facts underneath. See if you can find any more facts to add from the information section and other areas of the website! You could even colour in your hedgehog.
Hedgehog Facts
In addition to the facts on the drawing above, you could also look for facts on the Wild About Gardens leaflet by clicking here or on the British Hedgehog Preservation Society leaflet by clicking here.
Hedgehog Crossword
How many of our hedgehog words can you fill in our crossword? If you're stuck, try some of the easier ones and see if that helps you guess the difficult ones! You can download and print this by right clicking and selecting 'save as' to save to your computer.
Pine Cone Hedgehog
*Pine cone (you could use teasel)
*Felt or fabric
*Googly eyes (buttons, bead or even draw with pen)
*Glue
*Scissors (ask an adult to help)
Step 1: Choose your hog! This could be pine cone or similar.
Step 2: Cut out a piece of felt in the shape of a diamond for the hedgehogs face. Cut out a small triangle in a different colour for the hedgehogs nose.
Step 3: Assemble the hedgehogs face! Add googly eyes and glue the nose to complete your hogs face. This is easier done before attaching the face to the pine cone!
Step 4: Glue the back of the felt and attach to the pine cone. You can either stick on the side of the pine cone or on the end- which ever you think suits best!
Hedgehog Colouring Sheet
Right click on the colouring sheet and click 'save as' to save to your computer. Then you can print and colour it in!
