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hands on science kit

One of the best ways to win your children over to the advantages of homeschooling is to have a vibrant science study. Insect Lore kits make fun science super easy.

Sometimes we would just get away from the books and the “sit down” learning, so we would have time to get outside and learn naturally the way God created us to learn…with our senses.  We loved to take a nature walk and use our sharp eyes to try to find the most interesting things to share with the others. These walks produced an assortment of leaves, flowers, nuts, seeds, and of course, insects.

Now if you have little boys, you probably know how wildly interesting insects can be in a household. We always kept bug boxes handly to house the insects  for a time so that we could observe them while we looked up information about them. There is something about having the actual creature caged for a time, that makes learning about it a breeze. Those little memory nodules in the brain just automatically remember it all even when the kids are grown and in their twenties. They still remember the praying mantis that we kept for a week, feeding him with flies and other insects.

Insect Lore has a Praying Mantis Pagoda with an Asian-themed habitat (at left) that can orient your children to the life cycle of the mantis as you watch anywhere from 75 to 200 nymphs hatch from a live egg case. Special hanging mantis-hatching platform makes care easy. Keep one and feed her tiny insects (like aphids) or release them to forage for garden pests on their own.

Truth be told, you don’t have to have a bunch of fancy bug houses to study insects in this way. There is an advantage though to the Insect Lore products. They contain everything you need including information about the insect, so if you are swamped with time constraints, buying kits like this can be a good investment. The Insect Lore products come with a certificate for live creatures. Your original certificates must be returned by mail or redeemed online using the unique code before the live specimens can be shipped.

Also, they make a great (and exciting) gift for birthday or Christmas…so much better than a book for an energetic, activity prone child.  Grandmas are often asking what they can buy for presents and they would rather give a toy that a book, something like Insect Lore makes sense.

We bought the ant farm for one of our children and our whole family enjoyed the process… from ordering the ants to daily observation to see what tunnels were growing. It was really a fun  project that we all shared. Science discovery is just one of the many learning experiences that we all share that has made homeschooling our children turn out to be an amazing blessing to our family.
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