Ants in Your Pants, Worms in Your Plants (Gilbert Goes Green) Gilbert has trouble coming up with ideas. First he couldn´t think of a springtime poem, and now he needs an idea for an Earth Day project! Everyone else in Mrs. Byrd´s class is busy working on posters about recycling and saving water and electricity, but Gilbert wants to do something original. A distressing class picnic inspires him, and he comes up with an Earth Day project that even Mrs. Byrd thinks is the best idea yet