Living Underground

Which animals live underground? Well, ants do, so my five-year-olds made some tunnels for ants. We used toilet paper rolls glued onto a big brown piece of paper for the tunnels. Then the students made the ants. I used black paint to paint one of their fingers and they made three little circles, then used a black pen to draw the legs and antennae. After that, they glued googly eyes on the heads. Last we drew some leaves on green paper and also cut small strips of different tones of green paper to be the grass. We wanted it to look like the tunnels were underground. We made one ant, they'll probably make more next class, on a folded white paper and placed it coming out of one of the tunnels.

I was able to use this ant colony to ask them how many ants and leaves there were, what color the ants were, if the ants were hungry, and they sponateously decided which ant was the queen. We were extremely proud of our ant colony creation. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

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