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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Butterfly Garden Review: Reviews of the Butterfly Garden

Butterfly Garden - a butterfly habitat Raise 5 Painted Lady butterflies in the Butterfly Garden while learning all about metamorphosis with this Oppenheim Best Toy Award-winning butterfly raising kit! Watch them grow then let them go! See each caterpillar's transition as it matures, changes into a chrysalis, and finally emerges as a Painted Lady butterfly! After observing your butterflies, experience the joy of releasing them into your backyard! Absolutely safe to release into the environment. Includes colorful pop-up habitat suitable for hanging or free-standing on a countertop, pre-paid certificate for 5 butterfly larvae with special food, feeding kit and complete instructions. Please Note: This kit doesn't contain any live insects; it includes a mail-in certificate for the live critters. Three butterflies are guaranteed to be perfect specimens. Please allow approximately 3 weeks for your larvae to develop. During extremely hot or cold weather, delivery of live larvae may be delayed. Available only in the Continental U.S. and Alaska. Butterfly Garden is recommended for kids ages 4 and up. butterfly Garden Review #1 i gave this kit to two of my friends' children (two different families) for christmas and both girls (5 year olds) absolutely loved it! each of them took it to school so that their classes could enjoy it too, and the girls couldn't wait to call me when the butterflies finally came out of the cocoons. one of their teachers even ordered a kit herself so that the class could see the entire developmental process. one thing that i would suggest though... if you get this as a gift and you are organized enough to get it ahead of time, go ahead and send in the catepiller coupon for the child. that way, they only wait a few days for their catepillers, rather than two weeks.


Butterfly Garden Review #2 As a child, I caught caterpillars, fed them milkweed and watched as they turned into Monarch butterflies. I wanted my child to experience the same magic, however, it has been difficult to find caterpillars. I found three Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillars, only to find they had been eaten by a praying matis a few days later. At first, I had a hard time spending $20.00 for "a few bugs", however, this turned into more than 2 weeks of entertainment for the entire family and a few neighbors - pretty cost-effective, and educational, too! The kit gives you everything you need. Fool-proof if you follow the simple directions. You can plan the timing of the caterpillar's arrival, so your butterflies won't need to be released in a blizzard. The caterpillars are well-contained - not to worry if anybody is squeemish. The butterflies in the kit are found in so many locations around the world, you don't need to worry about un-balancing your ecosystem. We are planning to give a butterfly garden to every birthday child for the coming year!
Butterfly Garden Review #3 My son received the butterfly garden as a birthday gift. We were going out of town, so asked to have the caterpillars delivered at a later date. They came on the exact date requested! The caterpillars were very small the first day, but grew so quickly that I wondered if we could actually watch them grow before our eyes (it certainly seemed that way)! It took only one week for the chrysalides to form, and only one more week for the butterflies to hatch. There is no feeding required for the caterpillars (they arrive in a container with their entire food supply)--all the kids need to do is watch them! My son and daughter both woke up each morning and would come running to tell me how big the caterpillars were. Then they watched them form into chrysalides, and still watched them each day until they hatched. The day we released the butterflies, my son looked at me and said "I sure am going to miss my beautiful butterflies!...Mom, can we get some more?" You can buy your butterfly garden at http://www.sillyasstoys.com

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