Butterflies!

I love a good science experiment that kids can learn from, so when I saw this butterfly net with real caterpillars I knew we had to have it!  What fun it was! Above you see how the caterpillars arrived.  Actually they arrived crawling around the jar and eventually hung from the top and formed chrysalis.

The butterflies came out!!!

We took them out to let them go

"Who's left in there?"

Once we let them go we caught them again!

The poor butterflies wings did not work that well because they were not fully formed.  It was a great opportunity to talk about God's creation and the fact that not everything is made perfectly (including all of us).  Even though the butterfly couldn't fly God still created it and loved it and it is our job to help it and love it.  The boys totally got this and it was beautiful.