We started the week off by making a caterpillar out of pompoms and googly eyes. Next we made a cocoon for him by wrapping wool around a cardboard tube. The next step was to make a set of colourful wings from a coffee filter to complete the transformation, but Eamon didn't want his caterpillar to change, so he's stuck as a fluffy caterpillar with a lovely cocoon, but no hope of becoming a butterfly! He was happy enough to make another butterfly though and joyfully flew it around the room.
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| Eamon's butterfly |
Another morning we worked hard making a butterfly life cycle book with beautiful drawings of leaves for the egg to sit on, a great caterpillar with lots of legs, another caterpillar in his cocoon, and a pretty butterfly carefully punched out of card.
On one of our outings searching for a playground we also happened across a butterfly house in one of the malls which fitted right in. There were eggs, a few caterpillars, lots of chrysalis's and plenty of butterflies hiding around if you looked carefully. Even some nice big stick insects!
A really fun set of activities. Next week is fishing, which Eamon loves, so should be good!
On one of our outings searching for a playground we also happened across a butterfly house in one of the malls which fitted right in. There were eggs, a few caterpillars, lots of chrysalis's and plenty of butterflies hiding around if you looked carefully. Even some nice big stick insects!
A really fun set of activities. Next week is fishing, which Eamon loves, so should be good!
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