Hi. I’m Sara
Lily. I’m helping Grandma with this blog. Grandma waited until this summer to
write my six-year-old song. It’s not a birthday song. It’s a song about my butterflies.
Daddy thinks it’s a rap.
God gave us
milkweed plants and Grandma and I prayed for butterflies. Then Mommy and I found
Monarch butterfly eggs! Grandma went to the Dollar Store and bought containers
big enough for milkweed leaves. Grandpa found netting and rubber bands and we made
a Flutterby Farm.
Mommy turned
my old fish tank into a big Flutterby Farm and I decorated it with stickers.
Now Mommy and
I look for butterfly eggs on the bottom of milkweed leaves. We pick the leaves
and put them on wet paper towels and put them in my Flutterby Farm.
A few days
later the eggs hatch. You need a magnifying glass to see baby caterpillars. They
eat and eat and grow.
Milkweed
leaves get dry, so we pick new ones for them to eat. Mommy wraps the stem of
each leaf in a wet paper towel. The caterpillars eat and eat and get too big
for their skin. They wiggle out of it five times. They grow pretty big. And
they make an awful mess!
Finally the
caterpillars crawl to the top of the Flutterby Farm and make a silk button. Sometimes
they attach it to the wall, sometimes to the netting. They hang from the button
and wiggle out of their skin again. Now they are a green blob.
A couple weeks
later a butterfly pops out! We take butterflies outside and carefully put them
on a milkweed plant. We carry them on a stick so they can hang upside down. We
don’t want to hurt their wings.
After their
wings dry out and they fix their tongue, they fly away. But they love the
milkweed plants God gave us and come back and lay eggs. Last summer we raised 23
Monarch butterflies.
Sara Lily
From the album
“Silly or Celebratory – Songs for Sara Lily” this video is scrolling playback
of the song.
You can
get print (PDF) and/or digital (MusicXML™) sheet music for Flutterby Farm.
Click here for print sheet music. |
Click here for digital sheet music.
(MusicXML™ is
the standard open format for sharing digital sheet music.
Check the help files in your music notation app for directions on importing MusicXML™ files.) |
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