The season for bugs and all things crawlie

Kids are odd; C is not a huge fan of bugs at all in the least, in fact he is often terrified by them but he could not have been happier to receive the Bug Book and Bottle and Bugs Fandex by Workman Publishing. Paired together these two products make way for a great afternoon of bug finding, gathering and identifying. I had planned on making a day for the two boys together to go out and have some bug finding fun together but before I could C showed up with a friend begging to take the products out and go on their own bug hunt. Their bug hunting went fantastically and the two boys were solidly into it for close to a week which is an eternity in tween boy time.

The Bug Book and Bottle comes with a plastic container with holes in the lid to gather and keep your bugs in, a magnifier, bug identification chart, bug journal (to record all of your finds) and the bug book. The Bug Book is filled with with 47 fascinating bugs inside, how to catch, identify and care for insects and other creepy crawlies. The only flaw that C noted with the Bug Bottle was that he wished the lid would stay on more tightly so he taped it shut.

The Bugs Fandex consists of 50 die-cut cards on a fan-deck. The top of each card is a giant creepy picture of each bug and below and on the reverse are interesting facts about each bug. Overall these are two fabulous products to keep your bored kids busy this summer.


The Bug Book and Bottle retails for $13.68 CAD and the Bugs Fandex retails for $10.79 CAD they can both be purchased at Chapters.Indigo.ca in Canada and Barnes and Noble in the US.