SEPTEMBER IDIOMS: “Ants in your pants” on Day 272 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids

Here on 365 Days of Literacy for Kids, your kids will be “dressed” with IDIOMS during the month of September.

IDIOMS are phrases that reveal “secrets” from the past. IDIOMS come from many sources, many languages, many authors, many cultures. The “hidden” meanings in IDIOMS are great fun for kids, but also teach important, interesting and intriguing lessons in how language has developed and evolved over time.

Each SEPTEMBER IDIOM on 365 Days of Literacy for Kids will address something to do with clothing… such as teaching kids the meaning of the very active ants in your pants idiom.

The idiom ants in your pants means to be very restless; active; unable to sit still.

- Origin of ants in your pants Idiom:  Ants in your pants comes from the habit of ants being busy, constantly in motion, living together in colonies and scattering about.

For someone to have ants in your pants is indicative of all of this activity going on inside your pants!  This would certainly cause extreme restlessness, activity and an inability to sit still!

Ants in your pants is a funny, very visual image that kids understand well.

Dress your kids for back-to-school success with knowledge and attention to ants in your pants.

Take a few minutes each day in SEPTEMBER to teach the secrets of IDIOMS to your kids & grandkids.  Understanding IDIOMS is a wonderful way to enrich reading and language development.

And I’m not just talking through my hat!