Friday, May 11, 2012

Butterfly

This week we have been studying Butterflies.  We've had some pretty cool crafts this week and a very neat caterpillar experiment :-)

 We made caterpillars our of egg cartons, paint, googly eyes, and pipe cleaners.  We also painted egg cartons to make the chrysalis that you can see in the last pictures below.



 This is our caterpillar experiment.  We ordered our caterpillar larva and when they came they were tiny but in a short amount of time grew bigger and then grew into chrysalises.  Now we've pinned them to our butterfly habitat so hopefully in 7-10 days we will have butterflies!

 You can see that we glued paper eggs on a leaf to signify the first stage of a butterfly's life, then we used our painted caterpillar for the second stage or larva stage, the painted chrysalis was used for the third stage or pupa stage, and we water colored our butterflies for the last stage or adult stage of the butterfly.
We really enjoyed this unit!!

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