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Paper Plate Life Cycle Spinners

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This spring, as usual, we’ve been reading and talking about plant and animal life cycles. Here’s a fun project we did last spring – and we’re planning to revisit it again this month! {Originally posted at Early Bird Homeschool, May 2010} The girls had fun making life cycle spinners using two paper plates and a [...]

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Metamorphosis

What fun it was to watch our tiny caterpillars grow and grow and make their debuts as butterflies.  The girls were enthralled with the whole process – it is quite magical, isn’t it? The timing was just right – we were able to release three of the butterflies at our old house, on our last [...]

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