We have had a fun week.
On Tuesday morning we released our butterflies! The kids were so excited to let them fly into the trees, flowers & clouds. This was a great kit I bought for them. We got 12 itsy bitsy caterpillars that the kids watched rapidly change into big "fluffy" caterpillars. During the metamorphosis stage the kids got anxious waiting for the butterflies to appear. The butterflies emerged over a 3 day time span. We were lucky that all 12 caterpillars survived and became butterflies. The kids enjoyed watching them and feeding them fruit slices. They really enjoyed learning about the life cycle of butterflies. We have a great chart we hung up to refer to, read a whole bunch of books about butterflies, and made lots of art projects that centered on butterflies. I think the kids favorite ones were using the egg cartons to make caterpillars and paining coffee filters to make butterflies. I did make one mistake though. I let the kids use their glitter paint for the butterflies so we have had lots of glitter all over the house. All in all it was a fun learning experience for us and we plan on getting another batch of caterpillars before the weather turns ugly here.
painted lady butterfly
He finally gets one to land on his hand!
D'Angelo is up close with a butterfly
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