Younger children will love creating and wearing groundhog masks. Use a paper plate and paint the whole plate brown. Cut out eye and mouth holes. Attach small ears at the top made from brown construction paper and a small pink circle above the mouth for the nose. Glue string or pipe cleaners on the cheeks for whiskers. Hole punch the sides of the plate and tie string through each hole, and the mask is ready to wear.
Use a toilet paper roll to create a groundhog statue. Wrap the tube with a dark brown piece of construction paper. Glue an oval paper of a lighter brown color to the tube; this will be the belly. Create a cute woodchuck face from a printout or by hand using a dark brown piece of paper. Draw eyes, ears, a nose and whiskers, then attach the head to the top of the statue. Draw or print out simple hands; the hands look like mittens with no fingers. Bend the hands at the back and glue them to the roll so they stick out slightly.
Use a paper cup, popsicle stick and pom poms to create pop-up puppets. Use a hot glue gun to attach googly eyes to the pom poms while allowing the children to color the paper cups. Cut a hole big enough for the stick, approximately 1/2 inch long, in the middle of the bottom of the cup. Allow the children to glue one brown pom pom to each stick 1/4 inch from the end. Give the children one pom pom with eyeballs each, then help them glue it on the stick above the first pom pom. Slip the stick inside the cup and through the hole. Move the stick up and down to make the groundhog pop from its hole.
Create foam finger puppets with children. Prepare the project by cutting out two oval pieces of foam approximately 1 inch high. Line one oval on three sides with glue, leaving one side of the oval glue-free. There will be an opening between the oval pieces big enough for a finger. Place the second oval on top and allow the glue to dry. While it dries, cut out the head from foam. Draw a groundhog round face with square ears at the top. Attach googly eyes and a white piece of foam for teeth. Add black foam for the nose. Attach the head to the combined ovals for a woodchuck finger puppet.
Shine a flashlight on a large piece of paper hung on the wall. Ask a student to stand between the wall and the flashlight then trace the student's shadow onto the paper. Older students can help each other with the project by tracing one other's shadows. Decorate the shadow tracings to celebrate how the groundhog is spooked by his own shadow.