Mini Piwi is 34.5 months old |
Miss K used pom poms and squinkies to dot these pictures. See end of the post for the material links |
However, it is kind of hard to have Caterpillars without butterflies so we used the left over activities from the letter B week. This worked out well since we were planning on seeing visiting the Cockrell butterfly house.
Mini Piwi played memory with her Caterpillar cards a lot! sometimes you were even allowed to take a turn too |
On rainy Wednesday we visited the butterfly house, with Mini Piwi insisting on being out guide...
We even got to see the chrysalis and cocoons in the special hatching room. Mini Piwi shouted a hi to the caterpillars busy at their metamorphoses (not too sure at the plural of this one)
On Friday we finished up the week with a hungry little caterpillar craft from Reading confetti. It is such a cute idea. You make the caterpillar from egg cartons....we used oil pastels to color ours as our paints are 300 miles away.
Reading confetti has a printable of all the food the hungry little caterpillar ate (an apple, two pairs, etc). Mini Piwi cut one out and then delegated the rest Miss K. We then retold the story -I did
n't even need to grab the book cause Miss K know it by heart. Mini Piwi counted out each food.
This went really well until we came to the part where he goes into a cocoon (spoiler alert). This led us to rummage through the recycling bin to find a suitable cocoon, and then make a 'costume' for a toy caterpillar we have so he could be the butterfly. Miss K decided they could turn it into a puppet show if we also made a scene where the egg is first is laying on the leaf. This is what we ended up with...
Making the first scene |
The puppet show ready to go |
Putting on the show...'scuse the recycling and sandals |
Butterfly unit from Two teaching mommies
Feed the Hungry Caterpillar craft from reading confetti
Preschool Pack Pretty Bugs from 1+1+1=1
Cockrell Butterfly Center @ Houston Museum of Nature and Science