Learning & Growing Through Play: Eventually, if you do your job right, your dependents spread their wings and fly. This applies to parenting as much as it applies to nature; one of my favourite posts ever has to be Roots and Wings which pretty much sums up my approach to being a mother.
Thanks to the Natural History Museum Shop, we were sent the Live Butterfly Garden to review. It costs £20 and within that price you get 5 caterpillars and food to get you started but you have to mail off for these – they don’t come in the box!
It was a wonderful project to do together and helped show the cycle of life. My son wants to do it again immediately but we are holding off as you really need to be sure to have a clear schedule for this project. It takes approximately 4 weeks from start to finish and some of your chrysalides may transform before others – once they do, you become responsible for feeding them so you really need to be around and not away for a weekend break when they ‘hatch’!
Bugs and creatures are a bit of a theme lately as we also got some Buzzerks Bug Goggles from the Natural History Museum Shop to review too! With the ant goggles you can look like a bug, see like a bug! They have special hinged prismatic lenses that flip forward for true compound-eye vision just like real bugs! Here is my son modelling!
These goggles would make a nice gift for a child’s birthday party. At £8, they won’t break the bank, and the packaging is also a nice size to take wrapped up for a gift! They are suitable for ages 4+, but my boy enjoyed them at 7 years old!
