Sea Stars

Leaving from swim lessons, we decided to do "car school" today!

As we drove to the Butterfly Pavilion (which has sea stars),

the girls worked on seastar coloring pages, writing, reading, etc.

Charlotte lasted the whole time.

Adelyn lasted - about 20 minutes :)

We got to see this giant hermit crab there!  

His shell had baby crabs, barnacles, etc living on it JUST LIKE THE STORY 

so that was pretty awesome!

…but the coolest thing?  We came back to visit him 2 hours later 

and he had dropped that shell and was wearing this one that was obviously 

newer and had less life on it.

I didn't realize this but we researched it and found out that some hermit crabs change shells all the time.

Weird, huh?

Here's Adelyn petting the sea stars.

The 2 varieties are so different!  It was fun to feel the difference :)

We had other fun papers, etc.

The most fun was the field trip, though.

Petting sea stars was definitely nicer than just learning about them in a book!