Uncle Milton | Giant Ant Farm | Extra Large Viewing Area with Ant Picnic Scene, Classroom Toy, Classic Kids Educational Toy for Boys and Girls Aged 6+ | Basic Fun 00056

My grandson loves this Good for little nature lovers exploring outdoors Good size Easy to use

Nice ant farm. Wider than most

5 year old Granddaughter loved this for her birthday present . She is really interested in wildlife and creepy crawlies in particular . She couldn’t wait to set it up . I bought her a book to go with it about starting off an ant farm . Thrilled five year old . Just need to purchase the queen to get started .

Lovely exciting protected kids. Well it was until my wife thought it would be a good ideas to feed the ants a banana which smeared the screen forever.

Was easy to set up. Ants lasted a while! Great for small children to watch how ants work!

Brought for my son’s birthday. The air holes are too big for UK ants and unfortunately he tore the box opening it so I can’t return it. The sand material is also not suitable for keeping ants long term.

The holes at the top are top big, just caught an ant outside of the farm!

Bought as a birthday present and when we came to order the ants it says that they can only be ordered if you live in the USA. Went online to see if you could buy the ants elsewhere separately and they were over £50! Not sure if you can use normal garden ants but the information says you need harvester ants. Had to return will order the cheaper one that’s UK based

Buena calidad. Pero las hormigas no han llegado. ¿Si enviarán las hormigas?

This classic ant farm does everything it's supposed to do--allows you to set it up, add ants, and observe their habits. I learned a lot about ants in the week or so I had it up and running. But, there are things you must do correctly and you must have realistic expectations about how long these ants can keep it up in their artificial habitat. It is a very interesting science project for kids from preschool thru elementary. They really enjoy watching the ants. I used it with my kindergarten class and found equally enthusiastic students in grades 2-3. After your farm has run its course, you can sift the sand and put it away for another time. Reuse is easy. You just need a fresh batch of ants. When you first set it up, make sure all the ports are firmly closed and put a bit of masking tape over them, to ensure no escapees. Same for any cracks at the top. I had no escapees by doing this. Also, very important--use big ants. You can get your harvester ants from Uncle Milton with a coupon inside the kit, or try your own local ants. As long as they are too big to get through any air holes or cracks, they will stay inside and dig. The bigger the ants, the bigger and more visible the tunnels. Expect the ants to last about a week. They don't come with a queen, so their ability to keep going will be limited. Not to fear, however. In a week's time, you will have learned plenty about the ants. Since there is no queen, there will be no eggs and no rearing of young for the worker ants to contend with. After you add the ants, the first 48 hours are the most exciting. They are actively building tunnels, and every few hours you will see progress and new tunnels. This kit makes it very easy to observe this. You may see them trying to take food items down into the tunnels if the items are small enough. After they have thoroughly tunneled the ant farm, they stop building new tunnels and spend their time trying to build hills with the loose sand on top. They seem quite determined to reach the top of the ant farm and will rebuild hills over and over if they are knocked down. There will be steady die-off of ants as the days go by. The ants will try to bring the dead up to the top, and will move them around if they don't seem to disappear. If you can reach in through the feeding hole with something and remove the dead, I think it's a good idea. Don't overfeed them or make it too soggy in there, you will only make them sick. It's a great kit and a very suitable science activity for young kids and elementary students. I fully recommend it.

The product was well made and included the sand which was a bonus. It also has holes which allows you to add more farms to it as the colony grows. My daughter loves it as it gives you a great view of the colony as it expands.

Très petit gadget

Bought this for my kids for Christmas. Thankfully we live in a warm country were there are ants outside in the winter. We went into the garden and got ants and followed the directions. Within hours we had tunnels. Super cool! You can order your ants from the company too though..