Butterflies

For the past few weeks I have been teaching kindergarten.  I have just loved it.  The theme we were working on was bugs, specifically butterflies and ladybugs.

During the first week we learned the life cycle of the butterfly using Eric Carle's book The Hungry Caterpillar.  We cut and coloured our own life cycles and put them up for every one to see.  Then we made butterflies to decorate the classroom.

After searching pinterest for different ways of making butterflies I decided on this method.

 Using coffee filters we folded them into quarters.

 Then we dipped them into bowls of water with food colouring.

The rule was dip into the bowl for a count of 3 and then use your fingers

to pull and excess water out of the filter and back into the bowl.

Once the filter was completely wet, or as wet as the student wanted

we opened the filters up and let them dry.

Then we used a pipe cleaner to pinch the middle of the coffee filter

and curled or bent the ends to create the antennae.