We picked these up at the 99 cents store not to long ago so that we could grow our own bugs in some bowls in our kitchen...
Josiah was super stoked... He kept asking, "Where the bugs? There no bugs in this water! Where the bugs Mama?"
I love to use these kinds of things to give the kids a fun opportunity to practice their patience...
We tell the kids that "practicing their patience" means to "wait joyfully."
So they sat at that table... and stared into those bowls... and stared some more...
And some more...
And after much "joyful waiting," we got ourselves a handful of "bugs."