As soon as I walked in the door from work yesterday my 4 year old son ran in to give me a hug and ask me if he can take one of my coyote skins to preschool for his show and tell!!! I was thrilled that he would come up with that idea on his own. I can't wait to get home tonight to hear what he has to say about his day. (And what the teacher says haha). Proud daddy here!

Hope the teacher handles it correctly as I know some that would flip out. Lol

Good Job on raising Him!

That's awesome!

Well I think she will be ok lol. Her husband is a hunter so hopefully she won't mind.

I took the mount of my sons first buck into
"show and tell" when he was +-9 years old. Lots of interesting questions. Also gave his teacher a tanned coon skin because she taught Where the Red Fern Grows every year. Used to take him out of school for hunting season with a note saying I was taking him on a Field Trip.

The kids will love it. I did a fur/trapping presentation for my senior project in high school, and even then my fellow classmates loved it.

Awesome!!

Heck yeah buddy

That's what I like to hear!
Let us know how it went

WTG!

A loooong time ago, I took one of my dad's fresh beaver tails in for a show and tell in second grade.
As a kid, I always thought they were one of the coolest things. Still do!

I knew none of my class mates probably ever got to feel the texture of one much less see one up close.
I remember picking out a nice big one that morning, cleaning it up so it had no blood on it, stuffing it in a paper sack and taking it on the bus with me.
At school, when it was my turn, I walked up front and proudly pulled the tail out of the sack for everyone to see. I thought i would talk about it a minute or two and then pass it around for all to get a closer look.
Well.... My teacher "Mr Pautz" (little did I know) was a bunny hugger. Went from zero to 90 in 2.2 seconds!
He screamed at me to put "that thing away and get it outta here", as he shot out of his chair from behind his desk and stormed over to me, grabbed me by the shoulder and halled my butt to the principals office where he convinced the principal to call my parents to come and pick me up.
Good God!!!!
I remember my mom was called out of work and came to pick me up because pa was out on the line checking traps and this was 1969 so no cell phones'
I remember my dad being extremely PO'd about the situation but with the farm and a trap line to manage he let the whole thing slide.

I, however, can remember it like it was yesterday.
Left quite the notch in me I'll tell you!!

Matt, I hope you and your boy have much better luck than I had!

When my girls were in elementary school, they would have Show & Tell and each week the category would be the next letter of the alphabet. They would be on the letter M during trapping season, so I would bring a morning caught muskrat by the school. I would dry it and limber it up and place it in a brown lunch bag for them. My older daughter was in 4th grade and had passed and shown the dead rat to her class Some had held it and/or petted it. The teacher asked to hold it and asked my daughter Julie what it was stuffed with that made it so limber and soft. My daughter said "Stuffed? That's not stuffed, that's guts."
Some years they wouldn't have Show & Tell but the girls would ask the teacher if I could come to their room and show what I had caught that morning. I would come in wearing my packbasket and waders and show them a muskrat and explain and show the features that helped the muskrat survive underwater. I never had a bad incident and the kids were usually fairly interested. I always enjoyed doing this and have wondered if I sparked an interest in trapping in a few of those kids.

This also shows you're doin something right

When I was in the 8th grade (I'm now 61) I brought in the intestines of a beaver for a class biology presentation so we could study the various internal organs. It was a big hit! I'm sure that wouldn't be allowed these days. Grew up in a good era, not so much political bs.