CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are the benefits of raising silkworms for children?

1. The inspiration and significance of silkworm rearing to children

Every spring I would buy some silkworms for my children to raise. Raising silkworms was a great inspiration to my children.

On the one hand, it can enhance the child's observation ability and let her see with her own eyes how the silkworm grows bigger day by day and how it breaks out of the cocoon and becomes a butterfly.

Secondly, it can cultivate children's hands-on ability and sense of responsibility. Silkworms need to eat fresh mulberry leaves, and their living places need to be cleaned up in time. Only by doing it yourself can the silkworms grow up healthily. Without a strong sense of responsibility, it is impossible to raise silkworms until the day when they turn into moths.

Raising silkworms can stimulate children's creativity, interest, touch life, and scientific thinking, which is beneficial to children's hands-on ability and is also a good content for family activities. Raising silkworms can help children understand the natural laws of a small life's appearance changes, life transformation, aging, illness and death. Helping children use their brains and boldly experiment can have a good educational effect.

At the same time, the process of raising silkworms can also make children feel strongly the significance of "nurturing" to the growth of a life, and can generate associations of love and dedication from the nurturing of things and people, thus achieving the goal of guiding people to do good.

2. Is raising silkworms suitable for children?

Children are suitable for raising silkworms. However, when raising silkworms, children should pay attention to the temperature. Silkworms like warm environments. It is best to raise them in April and May, with a temperature between 20-25 degrees, which is more suitable for the roots of silkworms and convenient for management. They should be fed with fresh mulberry leaves and cleaned up, otherwise they will easily have diarrhea after eating. In addition, attention should be paid to hygiene, which should be cleaned up every day. If there is silkworm feces in the breeding room, it will cause diseases and hinder growth.

3. What are the benefits of raising silkworms for young children?

The benefits of silkworm rearing for young children are:

1. Raising silkworms can enhance children's observation ability, cultivate their patience and carefulness, and develop good habits of diligent and good observation.

2. Cultivate children's serious attitude towards everything and good habits of starting and ending well.

3. Children actively participate in the whole process of learning and exploration, which cultivates their innovative thinking ability.

4. Re-examine life, recognize the value of life, give him life education, and cultivate the love for nature.

5. Raising silkworms can also build a healthy parent-child relationship.

6. Cultivate children’s compassion to care for small animals and love small lives.

4. Why do children like to raise silkworms?

Silkworm breeding activities can cultivate children's observation and hands-on abilities and enhance parent-child interaction.

In fact, there are many benefits to raising silkworms for young children. First of all, it makes children interested. There are new changes every day. Recording the process of silkworms, from larvae to pupae, from pupae to moths, and the process of moths laying eggs, cultivates children's observation ability, makes children love life, and discovers and explores all things they have never seen. Everything is fresh, and it also cultivates children to use their brains more and broaden their horizons.