Three weeks ago we got a paper from Kenzie's homework folder indicating that we needed to start catching bugs for a display. At first, I thought, "Great, we're gonna have to go digging in deep dark crevices to find some bugs." But in actuality, they came to us.
We caught 3 different kind of spiders who were creep crawling in our house, in plain view. One morning, we were having scriptures before school and out crawls a hobo spider from under our couch and so he got put in a jar and froze to death in our freezer. In fact, we killed all the bugs that way. I wasn't sure how to kill them quickly without squishing them so we froze them. I realized after that doing rubbing alcohol in would be a happy "high" way for them to die...but instead they just got cold and fell asleep and died.
The kids searched outside for some bugs and caught a few more bugs and then when I was watching over Sarah Turner's kids, Isaac and Kade, we managed to catch a grass hopper and a bumble bee in our garden.
Jared attempted to catch a butterfly one evening after coming home from work and ended up in a wheat field just looking like a crazy man flailing his arms around...imagine being the neighbors watching him but having no idea he was following a butterfly around...I laugh just thinking about it.
Here is Kenzie gluing on her bugs to her cute insect scrapbook paper from Grandma Betty.
So everybody knows that it is Mackenzie's collection.
Can you read what they are?
Bumble Bee, Spider, Lady Bug, Spider
Moth, Grass Hopper, Fly, Spider
Kenzie was so happy with her bug collection presentation.
( I am glad because secretly, as a parent, I stress that maybe the other kids collections are going to look a lot cooler and then Kenzie will feel bad about her own collection and be mad at me for not helping her make it better.)
But she said that the other kids at school really liked it too!
We had more bugs than this but 2 days before we put it together, a few jars fell out of the freezer and the bugs were all broken apart, the carnage was horrible, body parts everywhere, legs, antennae, thorax, heads, and abdomens everywhere! I am seeking therapy to try and forget the horror!
4 comments:
To all the bugs in Shelly who lost their lives for the project, we salute you.
I saw the bugs when I picked the kids up, I thought it was a neat project... but I'm probably throw it away when she wasnt looking :)
Wow, that is really cool, but I would still be scared to touch them, even after they were frozen! Kudos to Kenzie!
oh bugs...im glad my kids are still young and i wont have to be killing bugs any time soon-ewwwh
she did a great job on it though it look actually cute- as cute as dead bugs on a page can look
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