One of my favorite things that I used to do with my students was watch caterpillars turn into butterflies in the spring. I thought that Ellie was old enough to appreciate it this year, so I ordered a set of caterpillars for us to watch at home.
We received five caterpillars in the mail and Ellie named them: Ellie, Georgia, Lola, Leah and Harper (all friends from her school in Cincinnati)
The container comes complete with food for the caterpillars, so all we have to do is watch them grow and form their cocoons.
All five have made their cocoons!
We pinned the top of the container into our butterfly garden and waited....
until we had butterflies!
After watching the butterflies for several days, we took them to a park to release them.
This one didn't want to fly out, so we gave it a little help.
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