After a week of learning about how caterpillars morph into butterflies, the preschool students worked on this project at the end of the week to show that they understand the life cycle process. This was sort of like their ‘final exam’ for the caterpillars to butterflies theme week.
Square 1 shows the caterpillar egg. They used an unpopped popcorn kernal.
Square 2 shows the caterpillar by using a small piece of yarn.
Square 3 shows the?chrysalis?or the?cocoon with the tip of a cotton swab Q-tip.
Finally, square 4 shows the butterfly with two pieces of elbow macaroni placed back to back for the wings.
So cute. We did the same think, but I like your q-tip swab better for the chrysalis – we just used a piece of a cotton ball. For the butterfly, we used bowtie pasta! Thanks for sharing, Renee
Last year we used a cotton ball but I thought the q-tip swab looked more like the chrysalis in our real caterpillars experiment. Such a great way for young children to see the process.
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What a neat idea! Definitely going to have to bookmark this one for a caterpillar/butterfly week!