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To send this in for show and tell?

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FasterThanASnakeAndAMongoose · 30/04/2016 20:43

Dd is 2.2 and has recently started preschool. They do show and tell once a week. I bought this crab the other day. We prepared it and ate it together.

I think that the shell would be an interesting show and tell. Dd is fascinated by it.

Dh thinks I'll forever be known as the weird parent who sent a crab in. Thoughts?

Incidentally, he came out beautifully from the dishwasher Grin

To send this in for show and tell?
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EveryoneElsie · 30/04/2016 21:25

I'd send the claws in as well. Dont they have a nature table?

JuxtapositionRecords · 30/04/2016 21:28

I love the lime one - I can imagine the parent in the morning 'shit! What can they take for show and tell??'

Show and tell once a week is excessive though surely, ours are way less frequent then that. I have no idea what I would send in every week!

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FasterThanASnakeAndAMongoose · 30/04/2016 21:29

They do have a nature table. Unfortunately I threw away the claws without thinking, damn. Next time I feel like a crab I'll save them.

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FasterThanASnakeAndAMongoose · 30/04/2016 21:30

I know, every week is going to be a struggle!

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nappyrat · 30/04/2016 21:33

Wow...slightly Confused that all it takes to be a weird parent is a bloody crab shell!!?

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FasterThanASnakeAndAMongoose · 30/04/2016 21:41

I didn't think that - I thought it would be an interesting thing to send in.

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Biscuitsneeded · 30/04/2016 21:46

Send it. DS once took a sheep's skull we had found in a field (on holiday in Devon; we live in a city so don't come across sheep skulls that often). He was super excited. Teacher looked a bit pale and was very glad to give it back after a week or two - said it was starting to smell (it wasn't).

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FasterThanASnakeAndAMongoose · 30/04/2016 21:48

I bet a sheep's skull would come out beautifully if you put it through the dishwasher Grin

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Alanna1 · 30/04/2016 21:49

Of course you should send it in!

bushtailadventures · 30/04/2016 21:50

Sheep skulls seem to be quite popular Grin

DD took one in that my Dad found while out walking, the kids loved it, the teacher wasn't so sure. It stayed with us until it got lost in a move, I was quite sad, I liked it.

WorraLiberty · 30/04/2016 21:52

SitsOnFence - "Kids love dead stuff. Do it!"

I don't know why but that really made me laugh out loud! Grin

LindyHemming · 30/04/2016 21:54

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AlpacaLypse · 30/04/2016 21:57

They (children) can be morbid little blighters... We have a small mountain of skulls and bones picked up on various walks. DTD1's story is that they're great for art projects. Personally I think it's just the pair of them being emo teenagers!

parrotonmyshoulder · 30/04/2016 22:04

Oh God, I didn't realise we could be judged on our show and tell contributions! Every morning I vaguely hear 'I'm taking this for showntell, mummy', but I don't think to actually check what it is! I wonder what he's been taking?

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FasterThanASnakeAndAMongoose · 03/05/2016 23:44

They loved the crab! He's going to live at preschool now Grin

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Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 03/05/2016 23:48

Definitely send him in. They can feel him. Learn about textures. Learn about sea creatures ect, and I'm sure they love drawring pictures of crabs, fish ect.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 03/05/2016 23:50

Oh has he already been in. Glad it went well and both Mr Crabby and the children had fun

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FasterThanASnakeAndAMongoose · 03/05/2016 23:55

Apparently they all had a hold. Next time we get a crab I shall save his claws too. A new use for the rarely used fondu forks - extracting crab meat Grin

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pickledparsnip · 04/05/2016 00:08

You definitely should. We live by the sea and my boy is always taking in bits he's found. Most recently a mermaids purse, a crab claw and some seaweed seed pods.

bolleauxnouveau · 04/05/2016 00:22

My ds wanted to take the skeleton of our dead pet in when we unearthed it during a bit of re-landscaping. I'm already 'that' parent so I said no.

toots111 · 04/05/2016 02:41

At my daughters nursery they just all take in toys :) She's always chosen what she wants to take in herself. This week it was two plastic cakes.

SummerRosie321 · 04/05/2016 04:21

Wonder if they will be able to get the cast of sponge bob. Sponge, starfish, squirrel ect.

Chottie · 04/05/2016 05:42

Why not take it in?

My DC used to take in bird's nest and wasp's nests (empty of course) and everyone was very interested.

Gatekeeper · 04/05/2016 05:54

Amu moons ago I took in a cold Yorkshire pudding. My late mother made brilliant ones and I wanted to show it off 😁

Newjobwoes · 04/05/2016 06:00

We went to a reptile centre once, a huge snake was shedding its skin and the lovely man gave the old skin to my son.

He took that in, I think the whole school looked at parts of that under the microscope.

We had to put it in water to make it flexible again.

Now that did smell, when it was dried !

School loved it though.

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