Chicken Little

Sometimes I get these brilliant ideas for enhancing our home school journey. I had one of these flashes a few weeks ago while I was boiling down a chicken carcass to make stock. As I took the last of the meat off the bones I thought, “Wow. I bet we could use these and rebuild a chicken out of all these bones!” So I diligently stripped and collected all the bones and the following week I sat down with my eager children for a little bit of spontaneous biology.

Do any of you realize how hard it is to build a chicken skeleton from a diagram downloaded from the internet?

It is nearly impossible. The youngest Pages wandered off shortly after I realized the complexity of the task. The older Pages took pity on me, watching my brilliant idea crumble around me and they stayed by my side encouraging me to persevere. And persevere we did.

I eventually had to thaw a chicken carcass that was in the freezer waiting to be made into stock, so we could try and figure out what bones went where.

LittlePage1 hot-gluing the spine.

“Help! I’ve fallen and can’t get up!”

LittlePage2 helps our friend to his feet.

The final pieces fall into place.

Four hours, and only a few leftover bones and I think we have a chicken!