BUTTERFLIES and LADYBUGS

The Butterflies...........................

Today my grandson Matthew and I made our butterflies

to send to The Holocaust Museum in Houston.

If you haven't heard of it, The Butterfly Project is  an

effort underway by the museum to collect 1,500,000

 handmade  butterflies

for a special exhibit to represent and honor the 1,500,000 

innocent children that perished in the Holocaust.

Matthews .......

Mine.....

Although we had fun cutting and pasting , and we are looking forward 

to sending our butterflies and being a part of this project,

we also had some very important conversation. 

Some of it was very hard. How do you tell this history to a child?

But more importantly.......how can you not?

If you would like to send a butterfly, and want more information,

you can get it here

or, if you want to click on the butterfly button on the right 

sidebar, you can read about another way you can send your butterfly and take

part in some extra fun doing it. 

The Project is named after a poem written by Pavel Friedman.

Pavel was born in Prague Jan. 7,1921....

deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26,1942

died in Aushchwitz on Sept 29, 1944.

He was 23.

(please read the poem)

  

                                                            
 The Ladybugs...............................

Then it was out to the garden ........................

                                                                            

We had gone to the garden center earlier in the day

and Matt saw the LADYBUGS!!

I couldn't say no, ......

 I wanted them too!!

I wish these ladies could eat whatever is nibbling on my beans!!!

Ladybug...............Ladybug............................