With spring now in full force, it was time for a new addition to our ongoing play dough kit collection. Though my first thought was to put together a spring garden set, we’ve made several very similar kits in the past and our garden set got a ton of play last spring, so I figured we’d switch it up this time around.
This morning, after two months of outdoor meet-ups {gotta enjoy the cool weather while we have it!}, our play school co-op resumed its usual themed indoor play dates. Grae and I were lucky enough to be the first hosts, and with our focus being on favourite children’s books this month, we got to plan a morning around Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Though we won’t be able to raise butterflies this spring, we did get to learn all about them today in our butterfly-themed crafting class at Bright Minds. We kept things pretty simple since the class is for 2 and 3 year olds and focused on the four main stages of the butterfly’s life cycle, the parts of the butterfly’s body, and the fact that butterflies are insects. Here are the projects Grae worked on…
The 4 stages of the butterfly’s life cycle in pasta…
