This summer I bought Big A a butterfly kit which I had got from Sainburys although you can buy them just as easily on the Internet.
With this kit you had to send off for the caterpillars and they arrived alive in a special container, it was amazing. We set it all up like the instructions said, waited patiently, or as patiently as a 5 year old can, and before we knew it we had butterflies hatching! It was amazing to see the whole process from start to finish, even for me, and I think it was our favourite activity of the summer. Big A even got to hold the butterflies when she released them, she loved it.
I also printed off some activity sheets about the butterfly life cycle where Big A could learn all the steps and how the caterpillar turned into a butterfly. This she was very keen to do as she had experienced it first hand and felt confident enough to draw each stage for herself. She had so much fun with this butterfly activity, we will definitely be doing this again next Summer. Maybe one year we will be able to find some frog spawn!
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