We got to go to a new to us pumpkin patch this year. Anna got a preview of it Saturday with Grandma and Grandpa, as it was one of the farms they stopped at on the farm tour.
One of the little extras this farm has is a butterfly house filled with all the flowers butterflies love. They mostly had monarch and swallowtail butterflies. We got a great hands-on lesson about the butterflies, what plants to look for to find eggs and teeny tiny baby caterpillars, where to find big fat caterpillars ready to go into their J formation and form a chrysalis and which caterpillar would turn into which butterfly. It was really cool for the kids to see butterflies in every stage of life. I posted a couple of my butterfly pictures here.
Here is Anna with her friend J. They are playing with a Woolly-bear caterpillar. Did you know they turn into moths?
Anna really really wanted to ride on the tricycles, she tried every bike they had, looking for one she could easily ride, and never did find one she could master. All the kids really miss having a paved driveway and street to ride their bikes on. I keep hoping they will get over it and just ride them anyway, but it hasn't happened yet.
The "pool" of corn kernels was where she spent most of her time, as did many of the other kids. They had so much fun covering limbs, digging down deep and "landing" in the kernels.
It took a little bit but she finally settled on a beautiful squatty pumpkin she is quite proud of. We're getting quite a nice assortment of pumpkins at the house. Alex's Kindergarten class went yesterday and he brought home a nice oval shaped pumpkin. I'm waiting to get some big carving pumpkins so they don't rot waiting to be carved. But we're looking forward to having friends over for an afternoon of carving.
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I love that corn pile idea. I've seen some implementations of this idea with rice, but corn has less of a chance of getting in ears and such =)
Hard to believe that Halloween is right around the corner.
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