Insect Lore Butterfly Learning Toy - 4 Piece Set Shows Metamorphasis Of A Butterfly

I teach preschool. I have done the live butterfly kits but that is not so great when the kids can't keep their hands off of the habitat. This is a great way to show the lifecycle that is inexpensive and did not result in deformed butterflies.

I really debated buying these models. I was teaching my 2 year old about the butterfly life cycle and thought these would help me explain it, but honestly wasn't sure if she'd get it or even care about it.Let me say, this was the greatest couple bucks I've ever spent on a teaching tool. My daughter (26 month old) is FASCINATED with these figurines. I used them to explain caterpillars and butterflies to her and she totally understood it right away. All week she has been using the models to explain the butterfly cycle TO US. Her new favorite phrase is, "caterpillar... make a chrysalis!" She loves them. She even insisted we bring them out to dinner with us one night.The only unfortunate thing is she played with them so much this week, somehow the egg has gone missing. We spent 2 hours tearing apart the house the other night looking for that darn egg. No dice. Such a bummer. But it's such a nice set I have actually considered buying it all over again just to get another egg for her.I also want to add, I grabbed these models at the same time that I placed an order for live caterpillars from the same company. I highly recommend getting them both together. It's one thing to see the models, but another to actually watch the caterpillars transform in front of your eyes.

I work at a school and I got this for the science teacher, who loves teaching life cycles and animal life to our kindergarteners. She loved them, they are realistic but not creepy, they are great for educational purposes, their size is also pretty nice, fitting in your palm but big enough to have detail.

This book was well received by preschoolers through second grade; and I am sure it could be used in even higher grades. I used it along with the Insect Lore Butterfly Life Cycle Stages "toy" also sold by Amazon. Used together they made an excellent tool for teaching metamorphosis to the age group I had. I liked it so much I ordered more books and "Life Cycle Stages" bugs for additional lessons.

I added this to our week learning about butterflies (which really was two weeks, one week as caterpillars the other as butterflies). These tangible representations really helped the kids learn the life cycle. By the end of the first week all three kids (4, 2, & 2 yr old) knew the life cycle of the butterfly! They could put it in order and knew the names of each stage.I also ordered the live butterfly kit from Insect Lore, and a book on here about the life cycle (plus books from the library). Last week we learned about Frogs, and since they also make the life cycle of the frog similar to this I ordered it. The tangible objects really help reinforce the names and stages.

Great learning tool to reinforce Life Cycles. They are small for little hands to handle. They are a tough plastic that can withstand a lot of handling. Would be great for a kids who likes animals. Would also be great in a classroom setting.

We got this at our house for our homeschool units on butterflies and life cycles. The pieces are sturdy and durable! My children are 5, 3 and 1 and they all enjoyed playing with the toys. The older kids enjoyed putting them in order of stages and my 1 year old had fun just playing with the pieces. I strongly recommend these for educational use as well as just something fun for a kid to play with!!

Love it!!! Hesitated at first but figured it wouldn't be a huge disappointment if the set wasn't great (since it's not very expensive). These are nice and big!! And my daughter and her friends love looking at them. We purchased to go along with the caterpillar to butterfly habitat we purchased. This is for Painted Lady Butterflies and the live Caterpillars we have in our set are Painted Ladies as well. Great!

Sono soddisfatta dell'acquisto. Mi sarà molto utile per insegnare scienze in inglese!

J'ai acheté ce support en vue de travailler dessus avec ma fille de 3 ans.Nous avons en effet observé le développement en temps réel de chenilles. De l'éclosion a la métamorphose.Quand les papillons sont sortis de leur cocon, elle a du mal a comprendre où étaient passées les chenilles.Il.a juste fallu ressortir ces figurines pour qu'elle fasse le lien.

A great product that clearly shows the different life cycle stages of a monarch butterfly (or any other butterfly/moth) a well made product with large pieces, Perfect for my 2 year old who is fascinated by crawly/slimy sometimes delicious things.

Arrived in a timely manner. Exactly as advertised. Since hatching butterflies a very look, but don't touch learning experience, my kids loved having objects that they could touch this year to learn about all the stages as we watched our own caterpillars progress to butterflies.

Genial copia y muy bien realizada de las diferentes fases del ciclo de vida del animal. Genial para que los niños aprendan sin necesidad de tener el animal vivo en casa.