The sound of summer evenings - and now the star of your next school play! Our printable cricket mask is a fantastic pick for minibeasts topics, and that distinctive chirping insect look makes it a genuinely memorable costume. Perfect for bugs and insects school projects, summer-themed classroom activities, World Book Day, birthday parties, and imaginative garden adventures.

Crickets are a brilliant subject for science topics - their chirping is temperature-dependent, which means you can actually estimate the temperature from how fast they sing. That kind of fact gets kids hooked. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Crickets!

Crickets don't make their chirping sound with their mouths - they rub a serrated vein on one wing against the edge of the other wing, a process called stridulation.
You can estimate the air temperature from a cricket's chirp rate - count the chirps in 14 seconds, add 40, and you'll get the approximate temperature in Fahrenheit. It actually works!
Crickets hear through their knees - they have tiny eardrums called tympanic membranes located on their front legs, just below the knee joint.
Only male crickets chirp - they do it to attract females and to warn off rival males. Each species has its own unique chirp pattern.
Crickets are eaten as a food source in many countries and are increasingly promoted as a sustainable protein - they require far less land, water and feed than traditional livestock to produce the same amount of protein.

Printable Cricket Mask

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