When this stage is complete and the antlers are fully grown, the blood supply is cut off. Without a blood supply, the velvet dies and dries out. It’s at this point that you might see antlered ...

For a fun alternative, have your child trace around their hands and use the hand shapes as the antlers. Cut out the antlers (or traced hands). You will want a little bit of length on the antlers ...

“We were out walking one day, we were a quarter-mile from the house and he found this fresh shed that had blood on it. And ever since then, him and I started walking fields and doing stuff,” she said.