Junior Animal Habitats Badge Step-by-Step

Make a Cootie Catcher

Follow the instructions to challenge yourself and friends to make a difference for the planet! Each play reveals a habitat and wildlife species that need your help. 

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Step 1: Find out about wild animals

Domestic, Feral, or Wild? sorting activity. Girls will cut out cards featuring different animals—like mallard ducks, hogs, and horses—and sort them into the correct columns based on how they interact with humans.

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Step 2: Investigate an Animal Habitat

Have your Juniors use online live cams to observe wild animals hanging out in their actual habitats. Encourage them to take notes on what the surroundings look like, how the animals interact with their environment, and what elements (like water sources or tree cover) are essential for their survival.

➡️Look at Live Cams of Animal Habitats

Step 3: Create an animal shelter

Have your Juniors build a cozy home for local backyard wildlife by making a DIY bug hotel or bird feeder. Using recycled tin cans, drilled wood blocks, and natural materials like hollow bamboo stalks, twigs, and pinecones, girls can create a safe nesting spot for beneficial pollinators like solitary bees and lacewings.

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Step 4: Explore endangered habitats

Have your Juniors build a cozy home for local backyard wildlife by making a DIY bug hotel or bird feeder. Using recycled tin cans, drilled wood blocks, and natural materials like hollow bamboo stalks, twigs, and pinecones, girls can create a safe nesting spot for beneficial pollinators like solitary bees and lacewings.

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Step 5: Help Protect Animal Habitats

Have your Juniors roll up their sleeves and clean up a local wildlife area, such as a beach, park, or schoolyard. Encourage them to look for trash that could harm local animals—like plastic rings, fishing lines, or wrappers—and discuss how keeping these areas clean directly protects the creatures that live there.