Butterflies
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How to Make Butterfly Gardens
Monarch Butterfly USA
Read about the stages of the Monarch Butterfly.
Butterfly Exhibit
See an animation depicting the stages in the life of a monarch butterfly. You can also click on the pictures in the left hand frame for useful butterfly questions and answers.
Montessori Cards – Coming Soon!
Fun
Milkweed Cafe
Solve puzzles called Scrambled Wings because the butterfly’s wings, among other parts, are all mixed up! Can you unscramble the pieces?
Foremost’s Butterfly Activities for Kids
Have a little fun and learn about butterflies at the same time! Choose from coloring pages, crafts, word games, memory games and more.
Our Journal
We received the caterpillars in the mail from Insect Lore on February 10, 2006. They arrived in 2 plastic cups that had yellow stuff (food disc) on the bottom and a paper disc on the top. The caterpillars, which are also called larva, were very small when they arrived. They were only about 1/2” long. They grew fast. It only took a few days for them to get large and begin making their cocoons. It was cool. The larvae attached themselves to the top of the cup and wiggled and spun until they were covered completely, except for one small piece which was left out of the cocoon and eventually fell off.. In a cocoon, they are called pupae. They were all pupae on February 20, 2006. The change from egg to beautiful butterfly is called metamorphosis – or we’re calling it, morphing.
Projects
Butterfly Baggies
Butterfly Flier
Butterfly Footprints
Caterpillar Cupcakes and Cookies
Videos
Bug City:Butterflies & Moths [VHS]
The Magic School Bus – Butterflies! [VHS]
Shop
Monarch Watch
Educational Science