Butterflies By: Stella Age: 10

Hello! This is Stella. I am going to tell you about a little experiment that our family tried.
Mater ordered a butterfly farm. After a couple of days, we received a cardboard box. We opened up the cardboard box. In a little cup, filled with some food, were the caterpillars. We were very excited. We watched them for ten days. They got bigger and bigger. Finally, one day, much to our delight, one of the caterpillars got in its cocoon. Day by day, they all got into their cocoons. When they were all into their cocoons we moved them into the butterfly farm that we got from the box. (The butterfly farm is a little mesh cage with a see through top. We pinned them to the mesh. Ten more days passed. Soon, one day, we were surprised to see a couple of butterflies! We immediately sprang into action and made sugar water. (That is the butterflies' food.) We wet tissues to put on the bottom of the cage. We went to the store and bought some oranges and flowers to put on the bottom of the cage. We dipped the flowers in the sugar water and we sliced the oranges and put them on the bottom of the cage too. We were really excited by the outcome of our butterflies!


By: Stella
Age: 10
Grade: 5