I wanted to catch all of our friends up on what has been growing at The Teachers' Lounge these last two weeks! Caterpillars!

They arrived at the store on Thursday, April 30th. They were so tiny! I set up our Butterfly Pavilion and put the two cups that held 5 caterpillars each inside. It didn't take long for those caterpillars to grow! Every morning I would check on them and they would double in size! We had a hard time catching them actually moving but we know when we weren't looking they were all over the jars! Wouldn't you know, by Mother's Day, they had all crawled to the top of the jar and were busy spinning their cocoons. By Tuesday (May 12th) I was able to open the jars and put the paper they had attached themselves to in the Butterfly Pavilion and they have been snug as a bug (actually caterpillars) in their new homes. It is going to happen any day...the miraculous transformation from caterpillar to butterfly and we want you to be the first to know!
We have been celebrating Butterfly week at our story hours and have set up an awesome display in our seasonal area of all of our butterfly products. Our story hour friends and all of The Teachers' Lounge visitors, keep checking the blog so you can come up to the store when our butterflies start emerging from their cocoons to see them and so you can join in the celebration.

I will update you on the process PLUS once all of our butterflies have emerged, I will let you know and then all of our butterfly items will be 20% off! Keep checking the blog because you will be the only ones to know!
This has been a fun process to observe and very affordable to set up at home. The mini Butterfly bungalows we carry in the store are a great deal at $14.99. Keep checking the blog and hopefully you can get one at 20% off!