1st grade show and tell ideas?

Hi everyone!
On Thursdays I go to my daughters first grade class to help with reading time. Last week I brought butters my daughters butter ball python in to show the teacher his size and see if a show and tell was ok for sometime. She liked the idea and had us do a show and tell that day! When I asked about reading this week she asked me to come in a little early and bring the snakes (5 of them now) for show and tell this week when it's not rushed.
So question.... What fascinating facts should I share? Last week I brought a shed but I'll bring in many so they can pass them around. I'm bringing a almost 3500gram normal girl all they way down to my smallest around 150 gram baby. I will have 3 norm 1 butter 1 pastel something or anything about those specific genes? who proved butter gene? I can look that up but anything.
thanks for the help you guys can think of

Maybe talk about how the snakes live in their natural habitat! Get them interested in nature and the environment, spawn the next generation of herpers and conservationists :D

a 3500 gram BP must be huge

I can't be fore sure exact this week she was 3434 when I weighed her she did just eat a very large rat before I went out and got a scale so full weight w/rat 3434
I got her recently and she is like a big lazy lap cat I hope one day when she breeds she produce a huge clutch

Get them to tell their parents and other family members how great these animals are and how they are not really going to hurt you unless you provoke them. :P

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Originally Posted by Joe balls

I can't be fore sure exact this week she was 3434 when I weighed her she did just eat a very large rat before I went out and got a scale so full weight w/rat 3434
I got her recently and she is like a big lazy lap cat I hope one day when she breeds she produce a huge clutch

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You might want to wait until she's digested that rat before bringing her to the classroom, otherwise you could end up educating the kids on the wonders of regurgitation. :O

Honestly I wouldn't bring the baby in - they can be nippy. Adults are more used to being handled and are less easily stressed.

I would also bring in some of the equipment you need to keep a snake, maybe even set up a tub to show their "home", along with a temp gun or IR thermometer since kids like cool gadgets. They can take the snake's temperature and compare it to their own.

Funny story. When I was young - I think I was in first grade too - we got permission to bring in my snakes for show and tell. I had a little kingsnake named Venom, and my dad and mother brought their two largers - a milk and a corn.

Another student also got permission to bring in their pets, because the teacher had announced mine and said if anybody else wanted to join they were welcome. The other student's pets? Mice!

It worked out well enough, we told the students to wash their hands before handling the snakes and it went swimmingly. I just thought it was a funny coincidence! The snakes were very laid back and nobody got bitten. We shared information about what they ate and how often, their sheds, and a bit about the habitat they come from. Everyone was very excited, I think it's very cool that you get to do a show and tell with the ball pythons :)

ETA: Great ideas in the post above me with the gadgets! A good way to stress how important good husbandry is, while making it fun :)

In my experience kids really couldn't give a crap about the morphs or anything about the morphs. Maybe some that are drastic difference, like BEL, super cinny, pied. Butter,pastel, or pin compared to a normal they don't really seem to grasp it. But thats my experience.

How they live in the wild and what they eat in the wild and captivity is majority the educational questions I get from little ones. Be prepared to answer questions like "Can I hold it?","Will it bite?", Can you fed it right now?", "Is it slimey?", ect. I agree a husbandry lesson would be great.

I was alittle worried about a regurgitation or poop this close to feeding but it will had been..24 aaaah carry the 2 .... Ahhh .math hours.... At least acouple days cuz it's not till tomarow