Butterfly Garden
Specification
Butterfly Garden
Description
The life cycle of the butterfly is a truly wonderful thing. The butterfly Garden from Prezzybox is the best way to introduce this miracle of nature to your children. It also fits into your child’s minibeast study like a charm. Whether you’re at home or in the classroom, there’s no better way to get up close and personal with these astonishingly beautiful and fascinating insects.
The Butterfly Garden kit contains:
- Certificate for five live Painted Lady caterpillars (no live specimens are in the kit).
- Reusable Habitat Net (30 cubic cm).
- Feeding kit and full instructions.
So how does the Butterfly Garden work?
1) Send off your voucher for live caterpillars. They’ll arrive in the post within a few days.
2) When they arrive, put them in the tub and watch as they grow. You won’t believe how big they get! You don’t need to feed them anything as the material inside the tub feeds them as they grow.
3) When they’re really big, they’ll start spinning silky webs and eventually they’ll form a chrysalis. When that happens, take the paper disc out and pin it to the side of the net.
4) After a short while, you’ll be able to watch the fully-grown butterflies emerge from their chrysalis. They can survive in the netting if you provide some fresh flowers from the garden. But don’t hold on to them for too long – they may be beautiful but they belong outside. Set them free in the garden and watch as they go off to create more butterflies.
It takes about 3-5 weeks for the entire cycle to take place, so this is a great project for the kids. They can monitor their progress and take photos every day until they are released.
Dimensions:
- Height - 30cm.
- Width - 31cm.
Please note: The Butterfly Garden does not contain live caterpillars but a certificate to redeem for the live creatures in Spring, Summer or early Autumn. There is a £2 postage & packing charge payable for the caterpillars to be sent to you.
Butterfly Garden
Reviews
Average Rating: 
Ken Massey on
25 September 2011
Bought this for our 5 year old grandaughter, she absoloutely loved it & is so excited about seeing the catterpillars developing & growing into butterflies. I would highly recommend this as a gift for children aged 5 & over.
Ken
sally on
15 January 2011
bought as christmas presents for nephews and goddaughter (all 5 yrs old) and apparently they are all very excited about sending off for the caterpillars its a bit of a wait till spring but they are just about old enough I think to manage this. All the mums siad what a great idea. Waiting for news on how it goes!
Pennie on
27 August 2010
I bought this kit for my son's Birthday.
Ordering the caterpillars was simple and they arrived really quickly with easy-to-follow instructions.
The whole family got involved (from age 4 to 64) as the caterpillars grew in size then developed into chrysalises before hatching into beautiful butterflies.
This is a great kit that is interesting for everyone.
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