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From Caterpillar to Butterfly – Painting Butterflies

Check out this fun activity of painting butterflies and our trip to see real a Butterfly Place mentioned in the book.

Painting Butterflies

We read the book From Caterpillar to Butterfly. Then we took a trip to The Butterfly Place. We also read the book again when we got home and reviewed what we saw while we were visiting.

The Butterfly Place

The Butterfly Place is a great indoor area to look and see butterflies flying around! You can learn a lot in a small amount of time. If you have one in your area I encourage you to take a look at it.

The Butterfly Place
The Butterfly Place
The Butterfly Place
The Butterfly Place

Painting Butterflies

One thing we noticed while we visited was that the butterflies have the same pattern on both wings. We did this fun painting activity to recreate that effect at home.

Painting Butterflies

What you need: papers with a butterfly pattern on them folded in half, paints, water bowl, paint tray, paint brush.

Painting Butterflies

The girls painted one side of the butterfly.

Painting Butterflies

Then they closed the butterfly to apply the paint to the other side.

Painting Butterflies

We opened up the butterflies to see what we created.

Painting Butterflies

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