All term we have been watching butterfly eggs hatch into teeny, tiny caterpillars and then observed how the caterpillars never stopped eating the swan plant leaves. They grew and grew and grew!! When a caterpillars was long and plump it stopped eating so much, attached itself to a branch or somewhere else it felt safe. We had three caterpillars climb all the way up to the ceiling. We were all on chrysalis duty waiting and watching for butterflies to emerge.
This caterpillar climbed all the way up to the heat pump duct. It took one whole day and a night to get there.
When the monarch first emerges its wings are crumpled and small.
The butterfly then takes time to pump its beautiful wings up and flaps them slowly to make them strong enough to fly away.
Check out our 'Very Hungry Caterpillar' writing and art work.
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