Kyle and Emily received a butterfly garden kit from Aunt Chryssi and Uncle David for their birthday over the summer. Fast forward to this spring and we finally ordered the caterpillars for the kit since the weather and timing were finally right. Over the course of several weeks, Kyle and Emily watched their caterpillars arrive in a box in the mail, eat their way through the food in the little jar they were in, grow to epic proportions, suspend themselves upside down from the jars lid, turn into a cocoon / chrysalis, (then Jeff transferred them to their mesh hut), and then hatch into butterflies! It was quite the experience for Kyle and Emily. They watched them each day to see what changes they could observe. They were counting down the days for each milestone the caterpillars would reach.
Emily especially loved this project. She likes bugs (believe it or not for those of you who remember the ladybug incident at the pumpkin patch when she was 2) and especially loves butterflies. She often puts on her own butterfly wings and flaps around. The butterflies had just hatched when Grandma came to visit so we showed them to her and determined it was time to release the butterflies to the wild. Plus, Grandma, like Emily, is good with bugs.
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