The cicadas have been so noisy here and every time I go outside, without even looking, I see at least a dozen shells. They’re on the house (rock), they’re on the sides of trees, they’re on the side of the wellhouse. I smile when I see them, remembering when I was a little girl, at my grandparents’ in the summer, I’d “collect” the shells. My grandma would give me a Mason jar and I’d spend the day looking for cicada shells.
Nicole called last night and she said “You’re not going to believe what Addie is doing!” Yep . . she’s gathering cidada shells and putting them on the barnwood wall in their dining room. I can’t imagine sitting down to have a meal and looking at cicada shells in a nice row up the wall.
It made me smile. So much has changed in this world in the almost 60 years since I was Addie’s age, but a child’s interest in collecting cicada shells has not changed. A barnwood wall in the dining room is a heck of a lot better place to display them than in a Mason jar!
JEAN says
Haha! Memories! Happy 4th of July!
-Jean
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Carolyn says
scared my mom once by putting them all over the small basement screen window above the washing machine. LOL
Claudia Duke says
I used to collect enough for each of my kindergarten kids to have one. Then they had to draw a picture of it and try to write a sentence or some words about it. Most of them loved it. A few would be scared to touch them, but they got over it really quick when they saw their friends holding them. Retired for 8 years, but I still like to find them.
Bev says
My eight-year-old grandson was fascinated with them he enjoyed playing with them, great idea teacher!
Joyce says
I also picked up cicada shells when I was a kid. Bugs freaked me out, but I wasn’t afraid of the shells. Now, every time is see the shells clinging to something, I remember being a kid and the fascination! Your post had not finish loading when I saw the row of shells. I was thinking I had never seen line of them before. Then I saw the rest of the post that Addie was lining them up! LOL Good times!
Nelle Coursey says
Evidently she is just like you! I love this story! We went for a ride today and went to Riverside Park and the cicadas were making their music there!!
dezertsuz says
I guess there really are things that never change. =)
Amy in PA says
We used to call them June Bugs when I was a little girl collecting them in OK 🙂