This week, I am ordering our butterfly garden and live caterpillars – we are so excited! I never get tired of watching the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly. I have been gathering up a basket of butterfly books, puzzles, and crafty things for my girls to explore – hope you enjoy this week’s collection of fluttery butterfly fun!
Quote of the Week
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fun Activities & Projects
We are planning to make these paper butterfly specimens in origami boxes this week – I can’t wait! (@Art Projects for Kids)
I’m a sucker for handprint crafts! Ramblings of a Crazy Woman has a great example of the classic handprint butterflies.
There’s a great selection of butterfly-themed art, literacy, and math activities at Making Learning Fun.
If you have a little one that loves cutting paper, try the Eric Carle-inspired collage butterflies at preschool daze.
What We’re Reading
There are so many wonderful fiction and nonfiction books about caterpillars and butterflies – I’m sure your library has a variety to choose from. Here are a couple of our favorites – do you have a favorite butterfly book to share?
Creative Products
Butterfly Life Cycle Puzzle
Wooden Butterfly Shapes
Butterfly Garden
Butterfly Ball
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We’ve done the butterfly gardens in the past, and just loved them. It’s such a great learning opportunity.
Awesome, my boys will love the butterfly collage! ;D
We are getting ready to order our butterflies too
Thanks to the link to add some extra butterfly fun in the process!
We are taking our butterfly life cycle jigsaw to Kinder this week as my daughter has been learning and crafting work on that recently and I thought they would be interested in it.
Thought you might like this link if you haven’t seen it already:
http://paintcutpaste.com/clothespin-butterfly/
I like the book, “Waiting for Wings” by Lois Elhert. I love most of her books…I really like her illustrations. Also, if you are interested, I know that there is a “teacher” book, “Teaching with Favorite Lois Elhert Books,” although I don’t know if this book is included.