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

Our 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.


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 habitat using the holding log. It will take about seven to ten more days for them to complete the transformation to adult butterflies.


The Butterfly Garden Home School Edition includes:

• Special four-sided 30cm tall Habitat with Ultra-Clear™ front viewing section

• Voucher to redeem for caterpillars (caterpillars available March to mid-September)

• STEM Butterfly Diary

• Chrysalis Holding Log

• Flower Butterfly Feeder

• Feeding Pipette

• Instruction booklet

• Insect Lore sugar packet to make your very own Butterfly nectar (arrives with the caterpillars)

Ages 4

Caterpillars can be ordered from now through to mid-September.

At the start of the season in March and April, the cycle is generally around 5 weeks, this time reduces as the weather improves, at the height of summer the cycle can be as little as 3 weeks to complete.  As the weather cools in September the cycle will go back to 4-5 weeks.