1/6. A thread about bringing live sea creatures to your kids’ winter fair: The kids’ school hosted a winter fair tonight as a gr 7 trip fundraiser. Gr 7 parents were told to participate. So between the snowflake-making station and the cookie decorating table...

2/6 ...I plopped down my two bins of live sea creatures. 10 different species! Thank you @alyssamina @sandraemry and the #harleylab for making this happen. All the kids absolutely loved it. But! It wasn’t until I got home tonight that I realized that...

3/6 ...a table of sea creatures in the middle of a Christmas fair was probably not what the organizers had in mind, and that’s why one of them kept asking me last week if the sea stars were going to wear Santa hats and I kept responding with a deadpan ‘no’;

4/6 ...I learned a few things tonight. 1) I’m so far down the nature-loving rabbit-hole that it absolutely did not occur to me that sea creatures were not ‘proper’ winter fair material. 2) Point 1 actually worked out quite well because...

5/6 ...a whole bunch of kids who had never seen sea creatures up close got their chance tonight; and holy cow, that 4 y.o who played with hermit crabs for 60 min!! Sell the ipad lady and get that kid some hermit crabs.. and lastly,

6/6 ...3) given the looks of sheer wonder I got from all the kids, the world needs more random nature bins - even if you have to squeeze them between candle making and the bake sale. :)