Digging up bones

The kids had a whole morning of fun with nothing but a cheap bag of dog biscuits. I hid the biscuits in the sand and told the kids to pretend they were archaeologists and dig up the bones.

Then they assembled the bones into skeletons.  Sarah said she was making a "very ancient rat."  I asked her if she could tell how old it was, and she said, "It looks like it was born in...maybe the 1970's."  I suddenly felt very ancient myself.

Some of the bones were broken, so the archaeologists had to concentrate hard to match up the pieces.

One of the archaeologists ate several of the bones.  Maybe we should have done this after lunch when they weren't so hungry.