Monarch Butterfly

1 = First a monarch butterfly comes along and lays a very, very tiny egg on a leaf. It is so small you can only see a white dot.

2 = It takes a week to hatch. Out comes a tiny caterpillar!

3 = Then, for a week, the caterpillar eats all of the leaves and gets fatter, fatter and fatter.

4 = Then the caterpillar makes a chrysalis and hangs off a branch.

5 = It has to wait a week to come out of its chrysalis and it has to wait again. It has to dry its wings.

6 = Then it can fly away.