With the transformation of our butterflies we wanted to do an art project to celebrate. These coffee filter butterflies turned out to be a great example of process art…and totally whimsically cute finished. Buga loved spraying the spray bottle and watching the ink drip drop and slide. Simply beautiful. Here she is….intense…working on her creations. […]

Our caterpillars formed Chrysalides in their Pupal stage of development. They stay in this stage for 7-10 days, growing wings, before they emerge as butterflies.

We got our caterpillars in the mail. We are hoping to watch them turn into butterflies. Here is a picture of them a few days after they arrived (and they had already GROWN in these pictures. They were so tiny when they arrived).