Insect Lore Butterfly Garden Kit – 10 Live Caterpillars, Habitat, STEM Journal, 2 Chrys-a-lid Holding Logs & Feeder – Grow & Release Painted Lady Butterflies – Educational Science Toy

This is a unique gift. I need to warn you to time the purchase to the exact time you want it to begin. It has everything included with a really spacious tent house. It starts with a cup of food already made for the tiny worms to eat. They grow fast and go through several growth stages. Then you set up the place for them to hang upside down at the top of the tent. You watch until a butterfly emerges. Then you make the sugar water, including. They last quite a while. I ended up letting them go in my bedroom, which has several plants I keep inside. I just moved their food outside of the tent for them to find. It is sort of sad when they die. Wish they could figure out how to include the next step of laying eggs. I loved this!!!

I did this kit as a young child and was so excited to get to experience it with my own daughter a few decades later!!We bought it for her third birthday, and I think this was the youngest age I would do it, but she was definitely old enough to understand and enjoy.Early into starting one of our caterpillars seemed like it died, it wasn’t growing at the same pace as the others and wasn’t moving. Then days later it caught up and they all went into chrysalis. All five turned into butterflies!! The last one to emerge was especially friendly (maybe just less antsy to fly) and hung around our flowers and would let my daughter hold it.Totally magical experience for her.

Cool everything came everything alive just missing two caterpillars. Was told I’d get 10 and only received 8. Other than that no complaints

This was wonderful! I used it with my class. The instructions and supplies made it possible for me to do this experiment without killing the caterpillars/butterflies. (I wasn't so sure I could do that). We thought the caterpillars had not made it because the cocoons looked dry/withered for days. We left them alone, though, and were all excited when we arrived at school one day to find two butterflies in the net. Then within an hour or two, another one came out. Four of the five became butterflies. I imagine the other one would have, also, but may have been harmed accidentally by students trying to observe it and mishandling the jar or net. I highly recommend this product!

If you want to teach your kids about butterflies this is the best way! This kit includes educational activities along with 10 ready to go larva. The painted ladies that metamorphosis are beautiful! I love that you don’t have to send in a certificate they come live when you receive everything. Kids loved the toys that came with as well. We will be ordering this every year!

Amazing experience for the grandkids from the beginning until the butterflies hatch from cocoons. Everything was point on and all my cocoons hatched with BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLIES. I had 6 completed transformations. I was able to allow the grandkids to keep a day to day notes and pictures with videosThis was so well worth the price. I highly recommend this project for elementary schoolers. I’m just a grandma not a teacher but this was fun for my grandkids.

Last time I got them I got one cup of caterpillars and they all survived and turned into butterflies. This time I got two cups which are supposed to be 5 caterpillars each. Unfortunately the looked frail and one cup has 3 and the other 4 with one being the smallest thing I've ever seen and will probably not make it. The kids are still excited to look for butterflies tho so that's why I gave 3 stars. I suppose we will see how far they grow. I included a picture of the one container with just 3 in one the other has 4 in it. Still a cool project.

Edit: they are going to send a replacement and they were easy to work with so I am editing my reviewAll of the caterpillars went into chrysalis but none came to be a butterfly. I followed all the directions my son was so upset …