Are night vision images of nocturnal animals too scary for grade 1s?

I volunteer weekly at a community center virtually. It's a mixed age group from grades 1-5, and the first half hour we do group activities to warm up. E.g. Animal trivia, play spot the difference or have open discussion as a warm up. We are running out of presentations (calendar is pretty empty until May with major holidays like the recent Valentine's are over). So I'm figuring to explore more animal themed stuff, which they love.

I have a bunch of night vision photos from a trail cam of raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, deer, possom, coyotes and wolves native to suburban Ontario.

My idea is to showcase a zoomed in snippet of each creature and slowly zoom out until kids can guess what they are. There will be regular critters like frogs, doves, caterpillars, but I will try to highlight things that are commonly seen locally like the banded wooly bear caterpillar.

I'm wondering if photos like attached with a red eye glare of a unfamiliar raccoon may be too scary or risk giving nightmares to younger kids. I wanted to teach the concept of nocturnal animals which are more active at night, like owls and possums.

If this can cause too much anxiety for kids (as young as 6 to 10) then I'll defer to normal daylight photos.

Submitted February 16, 2022 at 04:09PM by hedgehogflamingo https://ift.tt/8RQxvN9