Lunchbox Notes with True Facts

It is October, the lunchboxes are lined up on the counter, and you have nothing left to write on the little note you tuck inside each morning.

Lunchbox Notes with True Facts is a printable set of 180 cut-apart notes for a parent who wants to slip something worth reading into a lunchbox every school day, and has run out of things to say. Each note carries one true fact about space, the ocean, animals, history or the Earth, taken from public sources such as NASA, NOAA, the Smithsonian, the National Park Service, USGS and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The source is printed on every note.

Inside (32 pages, US Letter or A4):
- A cover and a one-page guide to using the notes (2 pages).
- Ages 5-6, 60 notes (8 pages): a picture and one short fact in large type.
- Ages 7-8, 60 notes (8 pages): "Did you know?" facts.
- Ages 9-11, 60 notes (8 pages): a fact plus a question to talk about at dinner.
- Five seasonal notes for a first snow, the shortest day of the year, the first day of school, the last day of school and a night of shooting stars.
- 23 blank notes for your own words.
- A 4-page source list that says where every fact came from.

How to use it: print at 100 percent, cut along the dashed lines (an adult should do the cutting), fold a note and tuck it in. Each age band has 60 notes, so cut a few at a time. The facts are about science, nature and history only. This is a printable PDF; no physical item is shipped.

This printable was created with the help of AI tools, then checked fact by fact.

Made by Made for This Day — we wrote it, we sell it, and we answer for it.

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