Butterfly Garden Home School Edition

Our Caterpillar Season has come to an end for 2024, but will resume again in March 2025.

Our Live Butterfly Kits with Caterpillar Vouchers are still available to buy Year-round!

Vouchers are redeemable for Caterpillar dispatches from March-September 2025.

Gift Giving made simple!

 

Butterfly Garden Home School Edition!

Item code: 11-035c (Live Kit) or 11-035 (Voucher Kit)

Please note when selecting option "Send Kit with Live" this is the date the complete kit is dispatched, not the delivery date.

If you don't know the date you would like your caterpillars sent (such as if giving as a gift) and would prefer a Caterpillar Voucher to redeem at a later date, please select "Send Kit with Voucher" 

 

Availability: In stock
SKU
11-035c
£27.49

Select when you would like your insects shipped.

"Send Kit with Live / Send Live Insects" is usually the best choice. You’ll save valuable time and you will receive everything you need in one convenient, exciting package. Please select a send out date from the calendar accessed by the blue button.

"Send Kit with Voucher / Send as a Voucher" is a good option only if you are not sure when you, or the recipient, will be ready to receive and raise the insects. Please note this option is not available for all products.

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Give every child the Gift of Metamorphosis with added learning opportunities with the Butterfly Garden Home School Edition!

Our Newly developed Butterfly Garden Home School Edition is a special four-sided Habitat with Ultra-Clear™ front viewing section.  A fold out learning panel also has interesting facts about each stage of the metamorphosis process.

Choose to receive the kit either with a voucher, or with live caterpillars immediately (by selecting a send out date).

Watch the Miracle of Metamorphosis Up Close.

This educational kit gives children, students and families an unforgettable opportunity to watch caterpillars change into chrysalides and then emerge as beautiful Painted Lady Butterflies. Raise and feed your very own butterflies and then release them into the wild! The entire transformation from caterpillar to adult butterfly takes about three to five weeks.

See An Amazing Transformation

3-5 caterpillars and food (a live butterfly culture) will arrive in a clear plastic cup with all of the nutritious food they need. Place the cup in a safe place away from direct sunlight. The caterpillars will remain in the cup and will eat, spin silk and grow to TEN times their original size! After seven to ten days they will hang upside down and harden into chrysalides (chrysalides are also known as pupae).

Raise Your Very Own Butterflies

Once the chrysalides have hardened, gently move them to the special four-sided Habitat with Ultra-Clear™ from viewing section. It will take about seven to ten more days for them to complete the transformation to adult butterflies.

The Butterfly Garden Habitat is reusable and perfect for up close butterfly viewing! When not in use it folds flat for easy storage. Then when you wish to raise more butterflies, just order a refill Cup of Caterpillars here.

The Butterfly Garden Home School Edition includes:

  • Voucher for 3-5 live caterpillars and food/Cup of 3-5 live caterpillars and food (caterpillars available March to Mid-September)
  • Special four-sided 30cm tall Habitat with Ultra-Clear™ front viewing section
  • Tuck away panel that teaches all four stages of metamorphosis
  • Insect Lore Sugar packet (arrives with caterpillars) to make your very own Butterfly nectar
  • Chrysalis Holding Log
  • Feeding Pipette
  • STEM Butterfly Diary
  • Instructions
  • Flower Butterfly Feeder

Ages 4+

If you choose to upgrade to the DPD delivery option at check out for an order that contains a Live Kit, please be aware that your order will still be dispatched on your chosen send-out date. This service does not include weekend deliveries.

Price: £32.99 incl VAT  (£27.49 ex VAT)

 

Need help with your Caterpillar to Butterfly Process? - Watch these informative videos

Setting up your Chrysalis Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Prw99oojY0

Caring for your Chrysalis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcwOzy72vcM

Feeding your Butterflies:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wup0WdPnDOc

Releasing your Butterflies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ImYSNCqBs