A Merry Christmas Cricket?

So we are basically done for Christmas shopping. I have one more thing to pick up for S_ tomorrow and we are still thinking about something else to get J_. At least we have until he returns to the area after new Year's to exchange with him. Maybe I can pick him up something good in a post-Christmas sale! (half-off FTW!)

Went to I_'s second grade class the other day for her holiday party. Here's how the scam went. S_ is one of the room mothers and since the second graders are studying crickets in science, the teachers were all like "can you do a craft with crickets?"

O.o  wtf?

So S_ and the other room mothers freak out about it for a few weeks and finally they tell me about it. I had the misfortune of having a great idea immediately about using a clothespin and some pipecleaners to make a cricket. Flash forward a few weeks and now we have a few crickets on our tree.

Are they actually immaterial...

.... or is their mass just very small?

Plushie particles at The Particle Zoo.com. What's not to love?

Note to S_: You know how I've always said I wanted a stuffed Higgs Boson for my desk at work? Well... I smell Christmas present....