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BBBBBButterflies and Caterpillars Round Up!

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We hit the mother load of monarch caterpillars tonight!

Between the first 2 plants we inspected, we found 9 teeny tiny caterpillars!

Typically, it is June before we start to find the monarch eggs around here....

So, you can imagine how excited we are!!!!

We have observed the life cycle of our monarch friends for quite a few years now. 
Here is a round up of some of our previous Butterfly and Caterpillar posts:



Caterpillars and Butterflies!



We Can't Find Fat Fred!


Farewell Fat Fred!

More Monarchs Emerge (Videos included)



Painted Pasta Butterflies and Caterpillars

Fingerprint/Handprints as Caterpillars and Butterflies

Hungry Caterpillar Shape Collage

Chenille Stem Sculpture Stories

Caterpillar and Butterfly Finger Puppets

Coffee Filter Butterflies (Slideshow of Photos in post)

Laundry Soap Butterflies

Easter Egg Caterpillars

Planting Caterpillars


Yummy Caterpillars and Butterflies


Butterfly Lunch

Another Butterfly Snack

Another Butterfly/Caterpillar Lunch

Aluminum Can Butterflies

Caterpillar/Butterfly Life Cycle Finger Play

Sing, Sing a Song! (Compilation of songs the children created!)


We sure love to spend time studying our caterpillars and butterflies!!

I hope you enjoy our journey, and as this is only the beginning this year, you can almost guarantee that we'll have some new caterpillar and butterfly posts soon!

Comments

Kids Creative Chaos said…
What fun activities for summer break :-) We love butterflies.
May 25, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Susan Case said…
What an amazing post! Pinned it and am following you from KBN Share Thread.
May 25, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Unknown said…
Wow, so many fun and educational butterfly ideas! Right now, we have a few caterpillars on our dill plant, and they are so much fun to watch.
May 25, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Unknown said…
What a great selection of posts!
May 26, 2012 at 7:04 AM
hanging letters for nursery said…
My daughter loves butterflies but she's really scared in caterpillar, haha! Anything that looks like a worm scared her away :( But anyway, this is another great post of you :)
June 13, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Unknown said…
This is a great collection of butterfly ideas. Thank you for linking up to Discover and Explore. Excited to see what you share for next week's Earth Day theme.
April 10, 2013 at 10:11 PM
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