Taking Flight

Ahhh...Butterflies. They are so beautiful, fun to watch and great to learn about in school. My friend Georgia gave us this very cool butterfly kit from Insect Lore where you send the coupon off and they send you live caterpillars. The caterpillars eat the food in the bottom of their container and then soon after they arrive, they make their chrysalises. When they make their chrysalises, you carefully take out the little disk at the top of the container and gently safety pin it to the mesh butterfly habitat.

We got to watch them spin their chrysalises. (That was cool!) We watched them right after they emerged from their chrysalis when they were letting their wings dry. (We missed every one of them actually coming out!) And we watched them starting to fly. This morning, we let them go. It was such a wonderful study.

 Josh with one of butterflies (We had four that worked - one didn't make it out of its chrysalis.)

 Tim was so excited to watch them fly away!

 Sarah with a butterfly too

 Sammy and Anna holding the butterfly

This is a picture of the kiddos with the butterfly habitat (the caterpillars were in their chrysalises here. If you look closely in the bag, you might be able to see them.) They are also each holding a little ceramic butterfly that we made.

The poster to the right of Sarah is "Butterflies of Florida."

"If anyone is in Christ, He is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold the new has come!" 

2 Corinthians 5:17