Butterflies

=BUTTERFLIES=

The very first thing that needs to happen for a butterfly's life cycle to begin is that a mother butterfly needs to lay an egg. Click on the first link to help a mother butterfly find a leaf to lay her egg on:

http://www.billybear4kids.com/butterfly/online-maze/monarch-maze.htm

What can you remember what the very first stage of a butterfly's life is? Let's learn more about the first stage by clicking on the link below:

http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Egg.htm

After the baby caterpillar is born, it needs to eat //a lot// of food. Can you help feed the caterpillar? First, we need to find out what they eat. Click on the next link to learn what caterpillars like to eat:

http://familyfun.go.com/decorating-ideas/gardening/feature/famf0502_proj_butgar/

When the caterpillar is full, it starts to make its chrysalis. Let's find out more about the chrysalis by clicking on the next link:

http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Caterpillar.htm#Cat1

Then, we wait... and wait... and wait... and we watch to see the way the chrysalis changes. Let's look at the next link to see what will happen while the butterfly rests in its chrysalis:

http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Chrysalis.htm

Now, can you put the stages of the butterfly's life in the right order? Click on the next link to put the four main stages EGG, CATERPILLAR, CHRYSALIS, BUTTERFLY in the right order:

http://funschool.kaboose.com/formula-fusion/games/game_fun_science.html?g=sq1_ds3