Saturday June 6th Nature Watch / Ants
Pictures Above
1. Sugar and anthill 2. Getting a pinch of sugar
3. Feeding the ants 4. Watching the ants pick it up and carry it backinto the anthill
Preschoolers
You need: a sugar packet and an anthill
Magnifying glass
Teach your child to observe nature. Teach them to slow down and WATCH.
Take a walk or look around the backyard or even the front sidewalk.
Find an anthill
Pour a little of your sugar packet around the opening
Find several anthills and pour sugar around a few of them
Go and play for a few minutes
Come back and sit quietly to watch as the ants come out, pick up the sugar, and carry it back into the anthill.
You can see the ants carrying the small pieces of sugar!
Explain that when ants find food they go and tell each other.
Soon there should be many ants coming in and out of the anthill.
Tell your child the ants are bringing it back into a tunnel for other ants and the ant babies.(eggs and larvae)
Watch the ants with your magnifying glass, don't start them on fire!!
Can you see that ants have six legs?
You can get books from the library and read about ants now that you have watched them work.
Try to draw an ant with six legs, a head, thorax, abdomen, and antenna.
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