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I would like for you to meet RockBand.
RockBand is Grants fuzzy little friend or more commonly known as a Woolly Bear Caterpillar.
We found him shimmying across our driveway one sunny afternoon earlier this fall. Grant asked if he could keep him so I did some online research to find out some specifics about the little critter.
As it turns out, Woolly Bear Caterpillar's are fairly easy to care for. They spend their entire summer eating away (apparently they eat almost any green type of green leaf) and then when most people spot them in the fall, they are out in search of a dark cool place to call their home for the winter. In cold conditions, they basically hibernate all winter long and then they come back to life in the spring when it warms up.
The caterpillars then gorge themselves for a few weeks and then spin themselves a cocoon. They remain in the cocoon for about 2 weeks and when they emerge they have become the Isabella Tiger Moth.
A few weeks back, and about a week after we found RockBand, Grant had the opportunity to bring a "sign of fall" to preschool for a sort of show-n-tell. I figured everyone would bring leaves, gourds and Indian corn so I thought we'd change it up a bit and Grant could bring his caterpillar.
We had transformed Grants bug/frog house into a rockin' caterpillar habitat (you know, since his name was RockBand he needed a "rockin" place to call home) so he had a nice place to live out the winter. Grant strutted into his classroom with his furry little buddy and was so proud. The teacher even told me that he recited the whole spiel about how he hibernates during the winter and then turns into the Isabella Tiger Moth in the spring. She said it was super cute. Oh how I wish I could have been a fly on the wall!
And to make the story even better, about a week after show-n-tell, we found this friendly little guy who Grant decided to name 'Luke'.
I had no idea if two caterpillars would 'get along' in close quarters but apparently they don't mind it a bit, or at least they have never complained to me!
Luke and RockBand now live happily ever after (or at least until spring) in their rockin' little habitat and I have two kiddos who are having a blast with them and learning valuable lessons about nature along the way.
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RockBand is Grants fuzzy little friend or more commonly known as a Woolly Bear Caterpillar.
We found him shimmying across our driveway one sunny afternoon earlier this fall. Grant asked if he could keep him so I did some online research to find out some specifics about the little critter.
As it turns out, Woolly Bear Caterpillar's are fairly easy to care for. They spend their entire summer eating away (apparently they eat almost any green type of green leaf) and then when most people spot them in the fall, they are out in search of a dark cool place to call their home for the winter. In cold conditions, they basically hibernate all winter long and then they come back to life in the spring when it warms up.
The caterpillars then gorge themselves for a few weeks and then spin themselves a cocoon. They remain in the cocoon for about 2 weeks and when they emerge they have become the Isabella Tiger Moth.
A few weeks back, and about a week after we found RockBand, Grant had the opportunity to bring a "sign of fall" to preschool for a sort of show-n-tell. I figured everyone would bring leaves, gourds and Indian corn so I thought we'd change it up a bit and Grant could bring his caterpillar.
We had transformed Grants bug/frog house into a rockin' caterpillar habitat (you know, since his name was RockBand he needed a "rockin" place to call home) so he had a nice place to live out the winter. Grant strutted into his classroom with his furry little buddy and was so proud. The teacher even told me that he recited the whole spiel about how he hibernates during the winter and then turns into the Isabella Tiger Moth in the spring. She said it was super cute. Oh how I wish I could have been a fly on the wall!
And to make the story even better, about a week after show-n-tell, we found this friendly little guy who Grant decided to name 'Luke'.
I had no idea if two caterpillars would 'get along' in close quarters but apparently they don't mind it a bit, or at least they have never complained to me!
Luke and RockBand now live happily ever after (or at least until spring) in their rockin' little habitat and I have two kiddos who are having a blast with them and learning valuable lessons about nature along the way.
haha how cute! Luke is a name we are really considering for our next baby!
ReplyDeleteThat is so cute! And i love Tootie's hat!
ReplyDeleteWe kept a caterpillar once, but it never emerged from the cocoon :( But the kids had lots of fun with it! What a great 'pet'! How neat to watch it transform!
That is so cute, how fun for them! I saw you were in MN so I thought I would stop in and say HI...finally starting to get cold here, huh? :) Your children are so adorable!
ReplyDeleteThis is adorable! plus I'm impressed you thought to research them online - I'd just be all like SURE and then they'd probably die :-) haha
ReplyDeleteanyways, i love your pictures too -- and your girlys hat is adorable! I love it!
Well, I bet your kids both are having fun with that! I know Cambree would love to have a pet catapillar.
ReplyDeleteCute picture's of your kiddo's! I hope they have fun with their new pets.