Butterfly Life Cycle - Pasta Noodles

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs - Sensory Table

 The peaceful town of Chewandswallow........

Then the food storm began!

Chewandswallow after the food storm!

Flower Pot Snack

I used food coloring on a paper towel and colored the skewers.  There is chocolate pudding and graham cracker crumbs inside the pot for the "dirt".

Very Hungry Caterpillar

Flower Sensory Table

Handprint Rainbow

Makin' Mud Pies

Eating Mud Pies

I used the graham cracker mini ready crusts and the kids scooped chocolate pudding (mud) into the crust!

Ducks in the water

Playing with Ducks in the Water

Dirt Pudding

Dirt Pudding

You will need:

Clay Flowerpot (clean)

Chocolate Pudding

Graham Cracker Crumbs

Gummy Worms

Fill the pot with pudding.  Have the kids crush their own graham crackers and sprinkle on top.  Pick two gummy worms and poke in the top.

Bye, Bye, Butterflies!

We released our butterflies today! I sent home wings that I cut-out of posterboard and the kids and parents decorated them. They brought them back and they wore them today when we let the butterflies go!
 

They Are Finally Here!

Our butterflies are called Painted Ladies!

We are still waiting.....

We are still waiting for our butterflies! Usually before they come out, their chrysalis turns black and it is almost see through. You can see the color of their wings. The two on the right are almost ready, but the ones on the left are still brown. I'm predicting tomorrow will be the day for a couple of them! Hopefully I can get a picture of it!

This picture is very blurry, but you can see the color of their wings through their chrysalis!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

by Eric Carle

The caterpillar is a green sock and I glued wiggley eyes on it. The butterfly is a finger puppet. Before you start reading the book, put the butterfly on your finger and then slip it into the caterpillar sock puppet.

These are the foods that he ate through in the book. One apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, etc... I laminated all of them so they would last a long time. As you read it in the book have the caterpillar "eat" through each piece of food. I usually assign a piece of food to each child so they can feed the caterpillar.

This is the caterpillar eating the food!

I use the paper bag as his cocoon. While the caterpillar is in his cocoon I usually slip the sock off and.......

He's a beautiful butterfly!

The kids love this book. They think it's magic that the caterpillar turns into the butterfly inside his cocoon and they love to feed the caterpillar!

Our BIG butterfly book!

The kids love this book! I used it to teach them about the butterfly life cycle. It has great real life pictures!

Using our proboscis!

A butterfly's tongue is called a proboscis. Their tongue rolls in and out, just like a party blowout. Their tongue is like a straw and they suck up the nectar! So after we "planted" our flowers, they used their proboscis, just like a butterfly to get their nectar!

We "planted" flowers!

I filled our sensory table with potting soil. The kids wore gardening gloves and used garden tools to "plant" flowers. They were taking it very seriously. They would make a hole a put a flower in the hole and cover it up. So cute! I found the fake flowers at the dollar store. I searched high and low for boys gardening gloves. Either boys don't garden or they garden so much that there weren't any left! So poor Luke had to wear pink!

Finger Puppet Butterflies

I used a butterfly die to cut out white butterflies and then I cut a small slit in the middle. The kids colored them and made them fly around while we sang, "Flitter, Flutter Butterfly".