Butterflies

We have done alot of this today-it is really cool to watch!

Thursday, May 21: We have butterflies! The first 2 chrysalids have turned into butterflies! We put sugar water on toilet paper for them to eat.

Watching and waiting for our Butterflies!

Yeah! We have 4 chrysalids!

Bella in her Very Hungry Caterpillar T-shirt

Almost a week later-Look how big our caterpillars are!

We've enjoyed watching them grow and talking about their "frass" (Ask Max what that is!)

They should start making their chrysalids soon!

The caterpillar larvae the day of arrival-May 2

Max and I are hatching butterflies! We started this unit over his spring break. We read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", painted egg carton caterpillars, talked and read about the life cycle of a butterfly, and now we are watching our very own caterpillars as they turn into Painted Lady butterflies. We have a butterfly cage that they will hatch in and then we will release them into our yard. Stay tuned here for pictures of our project!