"You are like a butterfly.
A catapillar's dream to fly.
So,bust out of this old own cocoon.
And dry your wings off.
Butterfly.
Go ahead, and fly"
-Dave Matthews
Lauren is a butterfly mama! She saw this commercial for a Butterfly Garden while watching cartoons and decided she wanted it. She marched up to her room, took $19.99 out of her piggy bank and gave it to me and asked me to get the Butterfly Garden for her. I did and in a few days, a package arrived that contained live catapillars! We read the instructions and within a few days of watching the catapillars, they had made their way up to the top of the jar and formed a "J". There was one that fell onto the bottom of the jar and we thought that one might not make it. After all the catapillars made their chrysallis', we transferred them over to the butterfly garden net. We watched them as one by one, they turned into butterflies - even the one that fell turned into a butterfly! There was one that did not hatch. It had a hole in its chrysallis. It was a ton of fun! Lauren fed them sugar water and picked flower petals for them. We kept the butterflies for about a week before releasing them. As Lauren said, "You watch them grow, then let them go." Gotta love catchy advertising!!
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