Fun Mouse Facts for Kids, Parents, and Teachers!
Chances are you know what a mouse is, whether you’ve seen them in cartoons sewing dresses for Cinderella or driving a car like Stuart Little. But no matter how cute these little rodents are, they can be very dangerous. They can carry dozens if not hundreds of disease-causing bacteria!
Keep reading for more interesting mice facts for kids.
- Even though they are small enough to squeeze through a space as small as a dime, mice have big appetites and eat between 15 and 20 times a day.
- Deer mice eat insects like beetles and caterpillars.
- A typical house mouse makes 40 to 100 poop droppings per day.
- Female mice can have babies when they are just two months old.
- Female mice can have up to 12 babies every 3 weeks. That’s 150 babies a year!
- Mice can jump a whole foot high in the air.
- They are great swimmers.
- They typically enter homes to get out of the cold and to find food and water.
- More than 21 million homes a year get infested with mice or other rodents.
- When mice are safe from animals that eat them (also known as predators), they can live up to 2 years.
- Mice will in fact eat cheese, but they’re love for this snack is a bit overexaggerated.
- Common predators include cats, snakes, foxes, and birds of prey like hawks and owls.
- Mice do not hibernate during the winter.
- You can make a mouse ear headband with construction paper, crayons, and a stapler!
