Check out these fun games, puzzles, and other activities that you can download for free! These activities highlight things that you can see in the Museum and in nature.
Downloads
Scavenger Hunts
Find the Facts Scavenger Hunt
Indoor Exhibit Scavenger Hunt
Museum Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

Activity Sheets
DINOSAURS! Activity Sheet
Down to the Bone Activity Sheet
Raptors "Birds of Prey" Activity Sheet
Venomous Snake Activity Sheet
"Hunters of the Sky" Paper Bird Activity Sheet
Tracks and Trails of Mississippi Wildlife Activity Sheet

Games,Puzzles, Coloring Pages
Giant Insects Word Puzzle Page
Wildflowers Crossword Puzzle Page
T-Rex Teaser Word Puzzle Page
Predator and Prey Trivia & Maze Page
Turtle Coloring Page

Mississippi Junior Duck Stamp Competition
The Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program (JDS) is a dynamic arts curriculum that teaches wetlands and waterfowl conservation to students in kindergarten through high school. Mississippi’s JDS program kicks off in the fall when brochures are mailed statewide. If you would like more information on the Junior Duck Stamp Program, please email or call 601-354-7303.
Fossil Stories
Harvey and Dalton's Fossil Finding
Pictured below are Harvey Huffstatler and his grandson Dalton Dear, both of Jackson, with an incredible fossil Harvey found near Bluff Springs in Union County. The fossil is a “steinkern,” or internal cast, of a nautiloid, a marine mollusk from the genus Eutrephoceras. This creature was the ancestor of the chambered nautilus that exists today. Nautiloids like Harvey’s were common in the Upper Cretaceous Period, about 65-85 million years ago. Many smaller nautiloids (like those pictured alongside the new find) have been unearthed in the northeastern and east-central parts of the state, but Harvey’s fossil may be the largest nautiloid of this genus ever found!
Caitlin and Annie's Fossil Findings
Pictured below are Caitlin and Annie with fossils found on the Chickasawhay River near Waynesboro at the end of September 2006. Caitlin is holding the axis (2nd vertebra, in the neck) of an unidentified medium-sized ungulate (hoofed mammal), which is about the size of a deer. Annie is holding the lower half of the left femur (thigh bone) of a juvenile rhino.
Make sure you visit the Kids Club often to check out new activities and news about the Museum!