Ant Rolling

Since my closest in age siblings and I spent most of our time outside, we had to find ways to entertain ourselves throughout the day. One of our games was Ant Rolling. We would split into our task forces first. My little brother and I usually got stuck with the worst job, picking up ants. We tried to find the biggest and the best ants. The problem was that bigger ants tend to bite when picked up. When we had enough, we'd bring them back to the driveway where the rest of my siblings were doing their jobs. Their jobs included grinding up different colored chalk into little piles, rolling the ants in the chalk, and then naming them. I know...clearly we were disturbed children. But anyway, the goal was to roll your ant in multiple different colors so that the head was blue while the butt was yellow. You can see why we needed the bigger ants for this. If we used smaller ones, they usually died in the harsh rolling process. And lastly came naming. I can not for the life of me remember any of the names we chose. I'm sure they were everything our 4-10 year old vocabularies could muster and more. Fred, Jim, Tom, Tim, Anne, Jane. Amazing stuff like that.