Folkmanis Monarch Life Cycle - Metamorphose Hand Puppet
Folkmanis hand puppet Metamorphose butterfly in three life stages: caterpillar, green cocoon with zipper and red Monarch butterfly
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Girl holding a Folkmanis monarch butterfly hand puppet with orange-and-black patterned wings high up in the air
Girl laughing while holding the Folkmanis metamorphosis butterfly hand puppet with black-and-yellow stripes and antennae
Three girls playing with the Folkmanis Monarch butterfly metamorphosis hand puppet set: chrysalis, caterpillar, and orange-and-black Monarch butterfly
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Caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly, in three turns of the hand: the Folkmanis monarch life cycle hand puppet changes from one stage to the next. Use the zips to tuck one form away and reveal the following one, then watch the sequence unfold in front of your audience. Once the change is complete, slip your hands into the monarch wings and take flight.
The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) lays its eggs on milkweed alone, the North American relatives of our spurge family. Caterpillars take in bitter compounds with every leaf, and those compounds stay in the body, leaving the adult butterfly unpalatable to birds. The orange and black pattern is therefore a warning rather than decoration. Each autumn the butterflies leave Canada and the northern states, travel several thousand kilometres south and settle by the thousand on the same oyamel firs in the mountain forests of Michoacán. Spring sends them north again.
Did you know that one migration takes four generations to complete? Summer butterflies live only a few weeks, yet the final brood of the year survives eight months, flies south and starts the return journey in spring. Not one of them has travelled the route before.
| Typ: | hand puppet, reversible puppet |
|---|---|
| Height approx.: | 31 cm |
| Span approx.: | 56 cm |
| Weight approx.: | 154 g |
| Publication year: | January 2016 |
| Care Instructions: | Care and Cleaning Guide |
Caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly, in three turns of the hand: the Folkmanis monarch life cycle hand puppet changes from one stage to the next. Use the zips to tuck one form away and reveal the following one, then watch the sequence unfold in front of your audience. Once the change is complete, slip your hands into the monarch wings and take flight.
The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) lays its eggs on milkweed alone, the North American relatives of our spurge family. Caterpillars take in bitter compounds with every leaf, and those compounds stay in the body, leaving the adult butterfly unpalatable to birds. The orange and black pattern is therefore a warning rather than decoration. Each autumn the butterflies leave Canada and the northern states, travel several thousand kilometres south and settle by the thousand on the same oyamel firs in the mountain forests of Michoacán. Spring sends them north again.
Did you know that one migration takes four generations to complete? Summer butterflies live only a few weeks, yet the final brood of the year survives eight months, flies south and starts the return journey in spring. Not one of them has travelled the route before.
| Typ: | hand puppet, reversible puppet |
|---|---|
| Height approx.: | 31 cm |
| Span approx.: | 56 cm |
| Weight approx.: | 154 g |
| Publication year: | January 2016 |
| Care Instructions: | Care and Cleaning Guide |