Butterfly Week at Our House!
Butterfly Week with a Toddler This week was so fun (and tiring!) for a couple of reasons; we had our 10 year old niece visiting, J, which was so helpful and G had the time of her life playing with her AND it was Butterfly Week in our household! One of our good friends put together a monarch habitat for us. We are growing a monarch from egg to butterfly, so we thought it would be fun for G to learn all about them this week, with the help of her cousin. I put together five activities that I thought were sure to be home runs. I'm going to be very honest! Instead of talking about how well they went (because they weren't all slam dunks this week!), I'm going to talk about something I humbly learned with each activity. Here are "Just a few Gems": DAY 1: Counting Butterfly Spots This activity was designed to have J help G to count out spots for each butterfly, keeping in mind that the butterflies' wings are symmetrical. They could use any colours, but the wings need...