Egg...

Butterflies lay eggs on and under leaves to keep them safe and hidden. Our first activity, I explained we were going to make our eggs white.  They took turns dipping one finger into white paint, then pressing onto the leaf and then we counted the number of eggs on the leaf.  For literacy, they took turns opening an egg, identifying the letter written on the paper inside the egg, making the sound and writing the letter on our poster. For math, we sorted eggs by size.  Their final project was to create eggs on a leaf. A butterfly's life cycle starts with an egg on a leaf, then in time, a caterpillar hatches. The leaf helps protect the eggs and will also be eaten by the caterpillar as its first meal. During this Invitation to Create, the children used their creativity ideas to lay their butterfly eggs on a leaf. Through this open-ended process, the children planned, designed and created based on their own ideas. It is important for children to engage in positive art experiences and understand there is not a right or wrong way to be creative! 
And of course, they did some work in their fine motor journals!