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By Sarah S.

We made some crafts with coffee filters... The kids colored them with markers, then sprayed them with water bottles and let the colors run together. When they were dry, which we helped along by patting them with paper towels,
we bunched them up in the middle and slid them into the space of an old style clothes pin. Then we attatched so pipe cleaners for antenna. Also, I have a pattern with 3 butterflies of different sizes, they colored and we decorated paper plates, cut them in a spiral and attatched the butterflies in graduated order. These were very decorative. We made life cycle charts using rice

(for an egg), spiral pasta (for caterpillar), shell pasta (for cocoon), and bowtie pasta (for butterfly) I had some patters of leaves and showed them how to make paper look like grass. These came out really neat. One craft that sticks in my mind, we used TP tube and painted them green to make a cocoon, and a butterfly from our handprints on a craft stick, you roll the butterfly inside the TP tube and when you pull it out..duh...the butterfly comes out of the cocoon. I saw the cutest bulletin board where, the teacher gave every child an oval shape to paint with green, yellow, orange, red..and then she staples them overlapping on the board to make the "Very Hungry Caterpillar" It's very eye catching!! Everything on it is painted with these colors, the eyes are cut outs, mouth too, and feet I think.....it's cute! I hope that helped a little...I also put the shell pasta in my sensory table for them to play with...you could put a different element from the life cycle chart in there each day. Good luck and have fun!!