HAHa.
I only buy 4 at a time at 5 cents a piece. He is allowed to eat 4 every three days, but I accidentally bought big crickets this time.
I think a 7 and 9 year old could handle caring for them. I did at 8, had several cages out back with frogs and lizards-yet they died, because little did I know then sun coming through glass equals FURNACE.