Introducing 3-5 year olds to Snakes!!

That's awesome! I'm planning on doing the same thing for my son's kindergarten class when the weather is warmer.

His friends like my son's ball python blog. Check it out if you want. If you want to set up something similar for yours I can give you some pointers.

Congrats on the successful presentation! I looks like everyone had a great time. :clap:

I've taken in my snakes for 1st and second graders. ya gotta love it when they stare in awe and say "cool" all nonchalant like.

tell them venomous vs nonvenomous. first thing they will ask is "does it have poision?" least thats what I dealt with

they'll ask what it eats, how it eats and how often. they will want to know how big they get. and my group asked, surprisingly enough, asked about eggs vs live young.

our classroom has a large carpeted area on the floow, so sometimes we have the kids make a big circle and let the snakes wander (very supervised, just fyi). as the snake gets to a kid, the kid can pet nicely and gets to ask a question.

that might work best with smaller groups like our brownie troop.

anyway, hope that helped some. sounds like you're gonna have fun...I know I do!
good luck~

Even better, this seems to have made him hungrier! I fed him today and he just HAMMERED the mouse back! Usually he fights with it for about 10 minuts, but today he just swallowed it right fast. :D I love my boy

I think that is a great age to intro kids to snakes.. any younger and they may tend to not really understand what's going on. but I did let my 2-year old niece see a few of our ball pythons, and all she wanted to do was reach out and grab them; and she is not by nature really an outgoing kid or anything. (she likes to scream at people she doesn't see on a daily basis, lol.) Hopefully I can "corrupt" her into wanting all sorts of reptiles, fish (already did that, my sister set 2 tanks up for ths kid) and eventually horses.. I am sure my sister and brother in law, and their wallets, will thank me. :D