B is for Butterflies!

B is for Butterflies!

Today, B is for Butterflies! We started today by making a butterfly crown. We got the butterfly crown idea and pattern from First Palette. I let her color them how she wanted. She used markers and her dinosaur stamps.

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Then we read two books. The first was Waiting For Wings by Lois Ehlert. It goes through the Butterflies life, first as a caterpillar, then a cocoon then finally a butterfly. Then it shows butterflies getting nectar. The back of the book has all the different butterflies you can find in the book and their names. So you can identify them. It also does the same for the flowers. The pictures are very bright and colorful. Perfect for little children.

The second book we read was Dinosaurs ROAR, Butterflies SOAR! By Bob Barner. I could not turn down a book about dinosaurs since Little Bear loves Dinosaurs! This book is neat that it talks about butterflies and dinosaurs co existing together. It has very nice colorful pictures. Little Bear liked looking for the butterflies on each page.

After reading, we did our letter craft. Turing the Little B into a butterfly. We got the idea from Totally Tots. However, our "little b" is very different from Totally Tots. Little Bear had fun sticking on the stickers and gluing the beads, though so it was worth it.

After the letter craft, we worked on our handwriting. As you can see, Little Bear really liked her butterfly crown!

After our handwriting, we worked on our art project! Today, we made a butterfly out of a paper plate! We got the idea for this craft from TLC. Little Bear loved this craft, because she loves to paint!

Our finished project does look a lot differently then TLC's. We used the materials we had, plus I liked letting Little Bear paint, instead of using pink plates.