Top 10 Animal Habitats For Kids

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A Great Way For Kids To Learn About Nature!

A great way to teach kids about nature and science are through animal and insect habitats! Observing the life cycle of an animal or insect through a habitat is not only educational, it helps children gain a respect and love for nature, as well as teaching them the responsibility that goes along with raising a living creature. This page will cover my Top 10 picks for animal and insect habitats for kids!

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1) Live Butterfly Garden

One of the most popular nature habitats available for kids is the butterfly garden! Your child will get to observe the life cycle of a butterfly beginning from a caterpillar. This popular habitat comes with the butterfly habitat, a feeding dropper, food, activity guide, complete instructions, and a voucher to mail in for your five live caterpillars.


Insect Lore Live Butterfly Garden

2) Frog Habitat

Let your child watch a tadpole transform into a frog with this fun habitat! This habitat comes with a break resistant and escape proof living environment, a built in magnifier/feeding cap, a guide to feeding and caring for your tadpoles and frogs, and a mail in voucher to redeem for your tadpoles.


Uncle Milton Uncle Milton Planet Frog

3) Ant Farm

One of the oldest known live habitats for kids is the ant farm! Kids will be amazed as they watch ants dig tunnels, construct highways and subways, erect bridges, and form chambers. This is a great way for kids to learn and observe the life of ants! This habitat comes with the ant habitat, a year's supply of ant food, a complete instruction manual, and a voucher to mail in to redeem your live ants!


Uncle Milton Uncle Milton Giant Ant Farm

4) Ladybug Land

Give your kids the opportunity to observe ladybugs through every stage of their life cycle, starting from larvae! This kit includes the ladybug land habitat with magnifier dome cap, food, pipette, and mail in voucher to redeem for 15 to 20 ladybug larvae.


Insect Lore Ladybug Land

5) Praying Mantis Habitat

Kids will enjoy this fun praying mantis habitat as they watch a complete mantis life cycle, starting from the hatching of the mantis egg case! Includes habitat and a redeemable voucher for your own mantis egg case. Please be aware that the mantis egg cases are only available for redemption from January-April!


Praying Mantis Pagoda(R)

6) Eathworm Nursery

Your kids will enjoy this wonderful Earthworm Nursery that lets your child experience hatching, raising, and observing the life cycle of an earthworm! Kit includes the earthworm habitat, 50 earthworm cocoons, and special growth soil!


Insect Lore Earthworm Nursery

7) My Best Fish Friend

This is a fun and unique kit that lets your child hatch, raise, and grow their own fish in 24 hours! This simple kit does not need an air pump or a filter. Just drop the miracle pouch in the water and within 24 hours you will see your fish hatch and grow. Includes miracle fish egg pouch, a one month supply of fish food, food measuring spoon, instructions, and a magnifying glass!


My Best Fish Friend BFF As Seen On TV

8) Quail Eggs

Here's a great starter incubator system for kids to hatch quail eggs! I would recommend parent supervision and guidance with this one for younger children. This kit will include the incubator and four fertile quail eggs. Eggs are available year round but may take longer to receive in colder months.


Mini Incubator w/ 4 Fertile Quail Eggs

9) Sea Monkeys

Another fun habitat for kids that has stood the test of time is Sea Monkeys! This specific kit enables you to see your Sea Monkeys in the dark with the mystery light that glows up to 6 hours! Kit includes the Sea Monkey habitat, water purifier, instant eggs, and growth food!


Schylling Sea Monkeys Magicquarium

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10) Your Child's Choice!

The last spot I have reserved for a habitat that is open for ideas! This special wet/dry habitat has a built in pool for amphibious creatures and a dry terrain for land critters. Let your child add their own creature to view and raise with this kit!


Summit Backyard Safari Deluxe Wet And Dry Habitat

When choosing the perfect kind of live habitat for your child, take care to consider the time that will need to be invested, as well as the future environment the insect/animal will need.

I Adore Comments!

  • SereneSea Mar 9, 2012 @ 2:50 am | delete
    Perhaps this is a great idea of educating the kids with live animal habitats provided the kids take care of the newly born babies with parent's supervision.
  • TamaraKajari Feb 28, 2012 @ 1:00 pm | delete
    Got some really good ideas to do this summer down in our beach house with my girls. Thanks!
  • Frankster Sep 29, 2011 @ 12:56 pm | delete
    What a wonderful lens full of great ideas. I never knew they had all of these things. I remember as a kid making our own ant farm. Beautifully done. Blessed. Bear hugs, Frankster
  • JohannTheDog Aug 10, 2011 @ 2:33 pm | delete
    Wow live habitats, kinda cool! I think Mum and I would like the lady bug one, then maybe we could release them into the wild and take care of the tasty bugs!
  • Tolovaj Jun 25, 2011 @ 9:09 am | delete
    Great list of ideas, goes into my bookmarksfor one of my future projects. Thanks!
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