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Nature · The activity desk
Butterfly and moth changes
Draw how a caterpillar becomes an adult insect.
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A little plan for play
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Paper and large child-appropriate crayons.
Age: 3–5 years; choose for the individual child.
Let's make it happen
- Draw an egg and a caterpillar, then draw a chrysalis and a butterfly.
- Tell the story in order: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly.
- Draw a silk cocoon beside the chrysalis; explain that many moth caterpillars spin cocoons around themselves before becoming adults.
Stay beside your child and put supplies away afterward; observe living insects without touching them.