Rollie Pollies

We've been very into bugs lately!
Today we studied rollie pollies that were in our front yard.

We observed how they roll into balls when they are scared, and we counted to see how long they typically took to unroll and walk around again (about 30 seconds when in your hand, but only 10 seconds when in the dirt)

This day reminded me of a day when I was a child, and at our baton teacher's house I filled my animal cookie box full of rollie pollies I had found. On the way home I opened the container to look at my rollie pollies. My mom instantly pulled the car over and had me dump them all out. Traumatized me for life :)