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During my son’s younger ages, he was fascinated with frogs. He read about frogs, watched shows about frogs and even did a school project on a red-eyed tree frog. We created a model out of clay, little red eyes and all, then anchored it to a tree branch. It came out awesome and I got he got an A on the project. This helped to heighten his interest in this amphibian.

One Spring we went down to the small creek and captured several tadpoles, this is not an easy task. But we were successful and came home with wet sneakers, muddy pants, 3 or 4 tadpoles and a bucket of creek water. He created a new home for the polliwogs. Over the next weeks, we watch them metamorphosizes into frogs. At which time they were promptly returned to the creek. It was incredible to watch. I don’t know who was more excited about it, me or him.