The Story About the Butterflies

by William

We ordered some caterpillars. There were six of them, and they were half an inch to an inch long. They came in a tiny container with yucky stuff on the bottom, paper on the top and pictures of butterflies on the lid. We had a butterfly house as well. They grew bigger in the container because they ate a lot of the yucky looking stuff. It was a week before they started spinning cocoons. When they became cocoons, we had to drive somewhere in a car for about five hours. One of the cocoons was vibrating while we were driving up there, but it didn't hatch while we were driving up there. We stayed at the place where we were going for three days. The cocoons hatched on the second day and we released them all on the fourth day.