Junior Entomologist STEM Journal Praying Mantis

Our praying mantis hatched too quickly; but as with all Insect Lore products we’ve ordered, it’s a fantastic learning experience that we enjoy as a family. We highly recommend all bug projects!!

Nice stem information

Not used this time

I bought this as a gift. This is the second purchase (first was the butterfly kit they loved). This one requires more patience as it can take quite some time to hatch. Hopefully their interest will remain high until hatching.

My little 4 year old girl was totally amazed by these creatures! She still talks about this activity a year later. We loved it!

Awesome as usual

We do homeschooling and I love these kits so my kids and learn and witnesses in person the life cycles! My 6 year old is doing great with the book!

A great experience for our 9 and 6 year old boys. They witnessed the entire process and were happy to send the butterflies off into the world when they were ready. I would do it again!

7 and 10 year old grandsons amazed by the results!

The waiting process was a little boring for my little. Butterflies are constantly changing but mantises are an egg. This journal gave us something to do while we waited!
Our egg just hatched today!! It was worth the wait. We watched them come out of the egg and observed them as they were released into our garden.

Helped with learning about life cycle

My son is OBSESSED with mantids, ever since we found one in our backyard. We didnt have an ootheca to observe but it didn't matter, the activities are less about observing an egg case and more just about learning about praying mantises.