Does anyone elses child collect bones?
Wendy
My 12 year old likes to collect bones. Every time he sees a dead snake he wants to bring it home and let it decompose outside and keep the bones. A few days ago he wanted to bring home an armadillo he saw. I allowed the snakes, but not the armadillo.
Does anyone elses child collect bones, and is there somewhere he can just buy them?
Blessings,
Wendy
Does anyone elses child collect bones, and is there somewhere he can just buy them?
Blessings,
Wendy
Malinda Mills
Wendy, my son Tristan also collects bones and is the same age as your son. We macerated a moose mandible that we found hiking one summer. He also has a small but growing collection of skulls that he was either given (deer with antlers) or purchased (coyote, bobcat, and a few others). The ones he purchased we found at a gift shop in a small Montana town.
A neat way to get a skeleton of a very small animal (shrew, etc) is to purchase owl pellets. You son can dig through the pellet and collect the bones. Tristan was big into owl pellet dissection for a while. :o) We found them at educational/teaching stores, and you can also find them online.
Malinda
Columbia Falls, MT
A neat way to get a skeleton of a very small animal (shrew, etc) is to purchase owl pellets. You son can dig through the pellet and collect the bones. Tristan was big into owl pellet dissection for a while. :o) We found them at educational/teaching stores, and you can also find them online.
Malinda
Columbia Falls, MT
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From: Wendy <islandwitch@...>
Subject: [unschoolingbasics] Does anyone elses child collect bones?
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Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 9:21 AM
My 12 year old likes to collect bones. Every time he sees a dead snake he wants to bring it home and let it decompose outside and keep the bones. A few days ago he wanted to bring home an armadillo he saw. I allowed the snakes, but not the armadillo.
Does anyone elses child collect bones, and is there somewhere he can just buy them?
Blessings,
Wendy
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Meredith
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Here's a site called The Bone Room that has instructions on how to clean your own bones (maceration), as well as selling bones and animal skeletons:
http://www.boneroom.com/faqs/faqintro.html
Its also possible to use dermestid beetles to clean bones:
http://www.d91.k12.id.us/skyline/teachers/robertsd/derm.htm
You can buy some here:
http://www.skulltaxidermy.com/
Small single bones you can often find through sources for beads (snake bones make great beads!) and other jewelry making supplies.
---Meredith (Mo 7, Ray 15)
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> My 12 year old likes to collect bones. Every time he sees a dead snake he wants to bring it home and let it decompose outside and keep the bones.
Here's a site called The Bone Room that has instructions on how to clean your own bones (maceration), as well as selling bones and animal skeletons:
http://www.boneroom.com/faqs/faqintro.html
Its also possible to use dermestid beetles to clean bones:
http://www.d91.k12.id.us/skyline/teachers/robertsd/derm.htm
You can buy some here:
http://www.skulltaxidermy.com/
Small single bones you can often find through sources for beads (snake bones make great beads!) and other jewelry making supplies.
---Meredith (Mo 7, Ray 15)
Schuyler
I bet you can buy them, but it's so cool to collect them. You can bury them and mark the spot and then dig them up later so that you can look at the bones. That way the rotting can occur behind closed soil and you don't get the smell. A friend of mine's dad used to collect road kill and freeze it so that they could disect it from frozen. http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-bone-clean-road-kill-166876/ is a cool video on how to bone clean road kill, as the url implies.
What a cool thing. I was just thinking the other day of picking up the corpse of a mole that I found while walking the dog. It's pretty well rotted away now, maybe I'll check for it tomorrow.
Schuyler
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From: Wendy <islandwitch@...>
My 12 year old likes to collect bones. Every time he sees a dead snake he wants to bring it home and let it decompose outside and keep the bones. A few days ago he wanted to bring home an armadillo he saw. I allowed the snakes, but not the armadillo.
Does anyone elses child collect bones, and is there somewhere he can just buy them?
Blessings,
Wendy
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What a cool thing. I was just thinking the other day of picking up the corpse of a mole that I found while walking the dog. It's pretty well rotted away now, maybe I'll check for it tomorrow.
Schuyler
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From: Wendy <islandwitch@...>
My 12 year old likes to collect bones. Every time he sees a dead snake he wants to bring it home and let it decompose outside and keep the bones. A few days ago he wanted to bring home an armadillo he saw. I allowed the snakes, but not the armadillo.
Does anyone elses child collect bones, and is there somewhere he can just buy them?
Blessings,
Wendy
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DJ250
Why didn't you allow the armadillo?! I'll take it!
Yes, we collect dead animals and watch them decompose. Once we had the good
fortune (for us, not the bird) to actually watch a bird die in our hands.
He was a robin and was being quite slow on the ground. We picked him up (I
held the beak so he wouldn't peck) and looked at him closely and then he
began to go limp and close his eyes. Amazing!
Find a place in your backyard where the smell won't bother anyone and you
can just leave the animals and/or bones out in the open to decompose and
bleach in the sun. Wash your hands with soap and water after handling!
Another cool thing to do is to order owl pellets from Carolina Biological
Supply and dissect them. Or just be lucky enough to find a pellet under a
large tree (often a pine)!
Have fun,
~Melissa
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To: [email protected]
Subject: [unschoolingbasics] Does anyone elses child collect bones?
My 12 year old likes to collect bones. Every time he sees a dead snake he
wants to bring it home and let it decompose outside and keep the bones. A
few days ago he wanted to bring home an armadillo he saw. I allowed the
snakes, but not the armadillo.
Does anyone elses child collect bones, and is there somewhere he can just
buy them?
Blessings,
Wendy
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Yes, we collect dead animals and watch them decompose. Once we had the good
fortune (for us, not the bird) to actually watch a bird die in our hands.
He was a robin and was being quite slow on the ground. We picked him up (I
held the beak so he wouldn't peck) and looked at him closely and then he
began to go limp and close his eyes. Amazing!
Find a place in your backyard where the smell won't bother anyone and you
can just leave the animals and/or bones out in the open to decompose and
bleach in the sun. Wash your hands with soap and water after handling!
Another cool thing to do is to order owl pellets from Carolina Biological
Supply and dissect them. Or just be lucky enough to find a pellet under a
large tree (often a pine)!
Have fun,
~Melissa
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Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:21 AM
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Subject: [unschoolingbasics] Does anyone elses child collect bones?
My 12 year old likes to collect bones. Every time he sees a dead snake he
wants to bring it home and let it decompose outside and keep the bones. A
few days ago he wanted to bring home an armadillo he saw. I allowed the
snakes, but not the armadillo.
Does anyone elses child collect bones, and is there somewhere he can just
buy them?
Blessings,
Wendy
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BRIAN POLIKOWSKY
I am laughing at you all collecting bones and dead animals..
I live in a farm and my dog Bloxie ( because of Roblox) collects them too!
My backyard is littered with bones and dad animals. EVERYWHERE!
She is a carzy dog I tell you. Maybe you all can come colletct some here!
Alex Polikowsky
http://polykow.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unschoolingmn/
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I live in a farm and my dog Bloxie ( because of Roblox) collects them too!
My backyard is littered with bones and dad animals. EVERYWHERE!
She is a carzy dog I tell you. Maybe you all can come colletct some here!
Alex Polikowsky
http://polykow.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unschoolingmn/
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