If you're looking for a God-honoring, creation-based, hands-on experience (for all ages) that teach children about the amazing Monarch butterfly, even giving them the opportunity to raise their very own Monarch caterpillars, then we think you'll enjoy our new Your Backyard Live Monarch Butterfly Kit!  Designed by our family so that your children might learn about the "king of all butterflies" while continually marveling at the creative work of the "King of all Kings," this kit includes the following:

• Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly DVD
• a companion, 100+ page e-Study Guide (The study guide will be added to your cart automatically at the time of purchase when you add the Your Backyard Live Monarch Kit to your cart.)
• a "Monarch voucher" to redeem 3 caterpillars*

Whether you want to supplement your current nature study by watching the DVD and making a simple lapbook or if you want to use the Kit as an entire stand-alone 6-week curriculum, our hope is that your children will be in awe of the creative ability of our Sovereign God.

Are you ready for a Monarch butterfly creation adventure? Within our Your Backyard Live Monarch Butterfly Kit, your children will:

• Learn to raise their own Monarch butterfly, noting changes on "observation sheets"
• Understand how to find Monarch eggs on milkweed.
• Identify male and female Monarch butterflies.
• Know how to look at a Monarch chyrsalis and tell whether the butterfly will be a male or a female.
• Explain the four stages of the Monarch life-cycle.
• Learn about the amazing migration pattern of the North American Monarch butterfly.
• Know how to carefully capture and tag Monarch butterflies and how to report the information to researchers.
• Meet creation scientist Mr. Jules Poirier, a Monarch researcher who designed navigational technology involved in the Apollo 11 moon landing.
• Learn about the Transvolcanic Mountains in Mexico, the overwintering area of Monarch butterflies East of the Rocky Mountains.  
• And, much more!

The downloadable, companion e-Study Guide includes more than 60 pages of resources to expand your learning, including:

• Section review and video discussion questions.
• Vocabulary words, fill-in-the-blank, true & false questions, circle the answer
• Coloring pages and Venn diagrams
• Copywork selections
• Further study opportunity for older students
• Nature study
• Observation worksheets
• Notebooking pages
• Lapbook printables
• Instructions and items to create a mini "Monarch Book" keepsake.
• And, more!

May this kit be a blessing to your family, teaching them of the creative power of our Designer God!

*You will receive your three (3) Monarch caterpillars after you mail-in your "Monarch voucher".  At that time, one of the butterfly farms will contact you via email to make arrangements for the shipping of your caterpillars.  You will be responsible for the caterpillar shipping as the shipping cost is not included in this kit.  Due to the fact that the caterpillar is a live creature, you will need to select either Next Day or 2nd Day UPS shipping.  How excited the children are to see the caterpillars arrive in the mail!  (Please note, you must make sure you have "SAFE, herbicide-free" milkweed to feed your caterpillars BEFORE arranging for shipping, as the caterpillars are ready to start munching the moment they arrive!)