After School Nature Club

This session of After School Nature Club has been smaller than most but the next session is filling up quickly.

We've been rained on over the last few weeks and have been doing lots of indoor projects. This week we talked about eggs.

We looked at bird nests and eggs, turtle eggs and snake eggs. We read a story about birds and looked at pictures of frog and fish eggs.

The kids had asked to decorate some eggs so we blew the insides out of a dozen or so chicken eggs, rinsed and dried them and decorated them with Sharpie markers. We chose these markers because they are easy to use and unlike washable markers don't smudge off. Paints are difficult for young children to use on something as small as eggs and they often end up discouraged. Their eggs came out great and they had a blast while the rain poured down outside our windows.