The Wacky Wild Story:

A young father and his wife were discussing what to do for their son's fifth birthday party. The thought of paying money for birthday clowns, bounce-houses, and cartoon characters were not appealing to them and there seemed to be few available educational venues that also offered entertainment for children's birthday parties. The couple's son loved animals, especially bugs. So the father decided to put together a “bug show” and be the creepy crawly entertainment for his son and all the guests. He did a great deal of bug research, caught many bugs (some caught him), and the birthday bug show was a hit!

After the bug theme birthday party, a teacher friend asked the father if he can do the creepy crawly bug show for her second grade class. Being that this was a friend, the father agreed. He took a personal day off from his job as a creative director and vice president of an advertising agency and did the bug show. In that classroom there was a behaviorist who was monitoring a child. The behaviorist loved the bug show and told her friend who was a principal at another elementary school. The principal called the father and…well, this continued for over one year until the father made the decision to educate children full-time about the wonders and importance of bugs. A business was born.

As this father went to schools, camps and birthday parties doing his Creepy Crawly Bug Adventure presentations, children would always ask where they can get cool bug catchers, bug houses, magnifying lenses, ladybug habitats, and the latest and greatest bug toys and games. Teachers were asking if he sold butterfly gardens for the classroom, ant farms, worm farms, bug books, insect posters, life-cycle units and science projects for having bugs in the classroom. Parents would stop him and inquire about bug t-shirts and clothing, nature gifts, science gifts, bug art, and even chocolate covered ants and edible insects and bugs for fear factor type birthday parties. BINGO! Another bug business was born www.CoolBugStuff.com.

Teachers soon starting asking the father to come up with even more presentations for the classroom. Since then, this father, along with some very smart and talented people, have developed over a dozen hands-on, interactive, and highly engaging Science, Nature and Nutrition programs.

What's next?
More Wacky Wild shows?
Franchising?
Children's books?
A Wacky Wild television series?

Stay tuned.