FISHING FOR ANTS CRAFT!!

SEPTEMBER CRAFT/ACTIVITY!!

We’re celebrating Back to School this week and we’re featuring some super smart animals, including chimpanzees! Chimps are known to take sticks and use them to fish out termites or ants for a nice protein rich snack! So we thought it would be fun to make a craft so you can pretend to be a chimpanzee! Are you ready?

Materials:

• Empty clean 1 Liter soda bottle
• Scissors
• 12 small buttons
• One strip of magnet (we found ours at Michael’s)
• Small dowel or chopstick
• Tacky glue
• Brown or green marker
• Brown or green paint & brush
• Exacto or craft knife (to be used by an adult)

Instructions:

1. Paint your bottle with two coats of paint. You will have wait for the first coat to dry completely before starting the second one. (The bottle is your ant mound)

2. While the paint dries color your dowel with the marker.

3.Then cut your strip of magnet in to small pieces that will fit on the back your buttons and one piece to put on the end of your dowel

4. Glue the magnet pieces to the backs of the buttons and to the end of the dowel.

5. Once the second coat of paint has dried (this make take a while), have an adult take the craft knife and cut 3 holes in the bottle.

Now you are ready to practice using your stick tool to get ants! Just drop your buttons in and start fishing for button ants!