We’ve been busy around here watching, observing, and of course waiting for our science experiment to reveal herself. We have answered LOTS of times, how many days might be left, as well as why it won’t be able to continue living here once it has transformed into a butterfly.
Saturday morning we noticed some color showing in the chrysalis so we knew it wouldn’t be long.
Abigail wanted to examine it closely to see if she could see her caterpillar friend.
Honestly, looking minutes later, this is what we found. A very fragile looking butterfly with small crumpled wings and big eyes.
Each of them couldn’t believe what a beautiful butterfly was in our jar.
Abigail can’t decide if she is happy or sad. Her caterpillar friend is gone and now we have to release the new butterfly!
Isabela couldn’t decide if she was happy or scared. Lots of sounds and emotions from this girl.
The tiny details of this creature were amazing!
After being silly on the back porch, we decided to take the butterfly to Nana and Papaw’s house to release.
Once out of the jar it immediately took hold of Jackson’s finger! He was amazed by this.
Jackson placed the butterfly on Isabela and it never offered to fly away. She wasn’t too sure about it but didn’t cry.
I love this picture! A happy boy proud to have learned and witnessed this amazing life cycle. Finally the butterfly lifted off of his finger and took flight. We watched it disappear into the trees and were thankful our cat or a bird didn’t capture this new fragile life.
By Abigail, she wrote her name, drew her picture, and copied my word BUTTERFLY.
By Jackson, he summarized his thoughts with some help on the spelling and then illustrated his butterfly.
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