Patrick Friedrichsen loves the clever rain-forest bugs shaped like a stick or leaf.

Daniella Smith is hung up on the sausage tree’s jungle fruit.

Alexa Gaumer can’t stop gushing about the bizarre behavior of the pitcher plant.

“A pitcher plant can hold a half gallon of water!” said Alexa, a second-grader at the Corpus Christi campus of Lawrence Catholic School, 6001 W. 15th.

The three students joined classmates at school Thursday to create a Rain Forest Museum. Each studied plant, animal and insect life in rain forests to create critter cards, displays and dinner mats full of information about the mysterious environments.

Parents toured the colorful museum, moving station to station holding a “passport to adventure.”

Teresa Hupfauf, second-grade teacher at the Catholic elementary school, said the class project was designed to raise students’ awareness about the importance of rain forests.

Her daughter, Tianna, helped with the decorations and took words right out of her mother’s mouth.

“There are not many left,” she said. “It’s important to learn about it because … we get food and medicine from rain forests.”

Lori Arnold, left, listens to her daughter Emily, 8, explain part of the rain forest museum that the second- graders created in their classroom. Thursday the class members invited their parents to the Corpus Christi campus of Lawrence Catholic School to view their work. The students researched plants and animals that live in rain forests.

Patrick, 7, said there were many shrewdly developed insects in rain forests of the world.

“Some bugs can protect themselves from enemies by pretending to be a leaf or a stick,” he said.

Daniella said the sausage tree’s offering feeds bats.

“It looks like sausage but it really is fruit,” she said. “I wouldn’t eat it. Yuck.”

Student Ben Sloan said rain-forest sloths won’t win any races.

“It takes more than an hour to get across an average-sized room,” he said.

Hannah Weise’s favorite: Ants.

“There are over 300 ants in an army in the rain forest,” she said. “That’s more than I thought.”