Butterfly Week, Day 1

Summer vacation has begun!! I decided to schedule out a combination of crafts and learning to keep these crazy K girls busy (and hopefully learning too). The first week I decided we'd just be doing crafts, as an easy transition. They love craft time so I knew that would be easy enough to get them to do. I also chose a theme for each week, the first week is butterflies.

Here's today's craft:

It was pretty simple. We started with a cardboard circle (the original idea was a paper plate- copying an idea I saw just a picture of, but I had cardboard and thought it would work just fine).
I drew black lines to divide it into the four sections.

Then I gave the K girls a piece of green scrap paper to draw and cut out their leaf.

Then they glued it on to their circle.

Then I used a hole punch to make eggs out of plain white paper. They glued them on and then labeled that section of their life cycle.

Next is the caterpillar- we took a green pipe cleaner and twirled it around our finger.

(This is actually KK helping KL get hers twirled- it's so sweet when they help each other.)

And KK had the great idea to just push the pipe cleaner through the cardboard instead of trying to glue it (which isn't always easy). 

Next we move to the chrysalis (of which I apparently forgot the "h" after the "c" in spelling it- oops!) 

We took a yellow piece of tissue paper and just crumbled it into a ball. 

Then we glued is hanging off a stick that we drew on. (I originally planned to find a small, thin twig, but I forgot and KK was still in her PJs anyway, so I wouldn't let her outside.) 

For the butterfly we grabbed a small square of tissue paper, squeezed it in the middle and used half of a black pipe cleaner and folded it in half. Tucked the tissue paper in and twisted it closed, leaving antennae open at the top.

(KL thought the antennae were too long so she cut hers shorter.)

Then we glued them on, KL was smart enough to put the glue on the wings instead of the pipe cleaner. Which made it easier to apply. Make sure you have all your labels, here's a cute picture of KL (my just out of Kindergarten-er concentrating super hard on her writing- I gave her a spelling cheat sheet): 

Then it's all done. :) 

That's all for now,
Jo!