The Butterfly Experiment!

This past Christmas Christian received a butterfly kit. It is one of those kits were you can watch life change right before your eyes! It is really fun to show kids how living creatures evolve to what they are today. Since butterflies are primarily seen in spring and summer we waited to do this experiment! This company is cool and you can order all kinds of insects. They have frogs, ladybugs and butterflies to name few. Our friends the Copeland’s have done the Ladybug’s and the Frog’s. Christian was so fascinated with it that we decided to pull his out and order our insects.

Before we headed to the beach in June, we sent off our request for our caterpillars. The Tuesday we were back in town they arrived in the mail. Christian was so excited and showed everyone who walked through the door his caterpillars. We had two jars with 5 caterpillars each inside them. We were to put them in a place that was out of direct sunlight and did not get too cold or hot. It took about 10 days for all the caterpillars to turn into cocoons or crystallides as they call them.

Once they were formed, I had to transfer them over to the butterfly cage. At this point, I think Christian was very antsy because everyday he would check to see if the butterflies had arrived. Another week or so went by and finally our first butterfly made its debut.

We have about 8 of them right now and they are beautiful. Everyday Christian feeds them and blows and taps on their cage! I have threatened him numerous times that we are going to let them go early if he continues that behavior. They are so fun to watch and you can see them eat when you put the food in their cage. We have to put flowers in the cage with sugar water on them, like morning dew. What a great way to teach children how precious and beautiful life can be. I recommend this for all little ones!