Snail race

Snail race

My kids loved to do this after all those rains. The yard was full of snails – small, big, and even bigger.

Snail race

29Take a chalk and draw a circle. Put the snails in the centre, in a smaller circle, and place some green leaves around the circle for a “bait”. The snail to reach first the bigger circle is pronounced the winner.1

You may put tags on them, or just mark them with chalk, to be sure which is which.

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Interesting fact – the shell may tell which snail is older. Each whorl or spiral means a new increase. The snail grows inside the shell, so the shell grows at the end and thus new whorls are formed.

 

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