ICE-BREAKER
Butterfly
Aim: To enhance the concept of growth and nature's cycles
Time: ± 5 minutes
Materials needed: Pictures of butterfly cycle
Activity
First discuss with the group the cycle of the caterpillar. Ask the group what a caterpillar and a butterfly looks like. If they
don't know, explain to them the life cycle of a butterfly. First the caterpillar (like a worm) lives in a tree and eats leaves.
Then the caterpillar makes a cocoon (small house of threads that it spins) and lives in this cocoon for a few days. Then after
a while the caterpillar changes and gets beautiful coloured wings. He then leaves his cocoon to fly in the open air and to
lay eggs from which caterpillars are born. The cycle starts all over again.
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Close your eyes and imagine that you are a caterpillar crawling on the branches of trees. You begin to form your
cocoon and slowly you surround yourself with silken threads until you are totally hidden. You are nice and warm
at first and you sleep for a while.
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Then it begins to get really hot and small inside there, so you start to push against the cocoon until you break it
open.
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You see the warm light and breathe in the clean air deep inside.
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You are now freer than you ever dreamed that you could be; you realise that you have now changed into a beautiful,
colourful butterfly. You soon realise that you can fly anywhere you want to and that you don't have to stay in the
cocoon.
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You find that you are flying through the air. Flying up and up and watching the flowers below you, you decide they
are so pretty that you fly down and land gently on one so that you don't break the petals. You smell and taste the
sweet flowers.
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You take your time to feel the many lovely things that you can now do as a butterfly.
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When you are ready you can open your eyes and come back into the room.
Discuss:
-How did it feel to become a butterfly?
-How did it feel to fly?
-Where did you fly to?
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