If I where taking my 5 & 9 yr old kids fishing this spring. I would get two tubes of live crickets. Forget the dried ones you will have some of them later in the day, you can try the dead ones. But they don't work good. Now to make life a lot easier I would NOT fish!!! All I would do is keep them two kids hooks baited up with crickets and when they caught a fish take it off and bait up there hook again. You may have to cast also for the 5 yr old. Fishing is something a kid will never forget. Good luck!!!