Happy Butterfly Day!

For those who may not know, today, June 19th, was butterfly day! 

 

In honor of such an occasion, I decided to make us a special breakfast of butterfly shaped biscuits.  While they baked, I used my Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die to cut butterflies out of recycled materials (the silver cardboard inserts from chocolate bars I bought, and the colored cardboard pieces from a few packs of baby cloths) for the kids to play with and color.  In the process, I ended up over baking our butterfly biscuits... ah well.  they were still edible!

 

Mmmm... butterflies! 

Tasty with jam! 

Bram believes butterfly biscuits are the bomb! 

 I had a little fun with mine... berries and bananas on butterfly biscuits (yeah yeah, enough with the 'b')

I ended up starting on a craft I've been longing to try... cut out 68 small cardstock butterflies, 62 small tissue butterflies, 18 larger cardstock butterflies, and 16 same sized tissue ones... I hope to complete the project over the next week.  I'll post it here when I do.

Today we also learned a little about butterflies.  Since we are also on Australia in our 'Around the World in 60 Days' tour, we looked at butterfly pics from that region.  We also learned that butterflies eat nectar from flowers (I called it flower juice) using their 'tongue' that acts like a really long straw which they can curl up when not in use.  Bram remembered that and was asking about it again later in the evening.  I started looking up butterfly gardens... but didn't get far on that.  I'd love to make one either way, but we'll see how much time I feel I can devote to that...

I was going to do a caterpillar craft using an egg carton... but never got to it.  :(

Well, that was our beautiful butterfly day in a nutshell!  I adore butterflies... every time I see them I am filled with awe over God and his creation... such tiny beauties (did you know that butterfly wings are covered in tiny scales that act as feathers?).  Lord, Thank you for revealing yourself in all your creation, and thank you for the butterflies.

Today's butterfly blog was brought to you by the letter 'B'... (snicker)