Our butterfly garden and caterpillars arrived in the mail and our journey begins as we watch these caterpillars turn into butterflies! I'm not sure who's more excited me or the girls!
The girls have been loving the caterpillars!! Every morning they wake up and want to see the caterpillars.
They are obviously very curious about the caterpillars and the process of them turning into butterflies. To learn more about the process we read this book
From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heiligman
To pick up on their growing interest we also found some pictures of caterpillars online and printed them out for the girls to observe.
We talked about the different characteristics we saw and I encouraged the girls to describe the various caterpillars.
After observing the real caterpillars and the pictures the girls created their own representations of caterpillars using mixed media of oil pastels and water colors. When I taught with the Reggio Emilia Philosophy we did many projects that included mixed media, observational drawings and creating representations of what was being studied.
First they used the oil pastels to draw a caterpillar.
My 2 year old wanted to draw a caterpillar too and in her mind it was indeed a caterpillar!
Next they used watercolors to paint over the oil pastels. Mixing these two types of media creates a cool effect and texture when dried.
Mallory's completed caterpillar! She loved this project and I think we will do it again with butterfly pictures once our caterpillars turn into butterflies.
Be sure to check back as we document the growth of our caterpillars turning into butterflies!
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