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Butterfly Garden Gift Set with 3-5 Caterpillars

SKU: 11-300 SKU: 11-300x
£23.75
£28.50
£23.75
£28.50
Exciting butterfly-themed bonus items make this butterfly-raising kit the perfect gift!

The Butterfly Garden Gift Set is perfect for children, students and families. An unforgettable opportunity to watch caterpillars change into chrysalides and then emerge as beautiful Painted Lady Butterflies. Raise and feed your very own butterflies and then release them into the wild! The entire transformation from caterpillar to adult butterfly takes about three to five weeks.

See an Amazing Transformation

Firstly, 3-5 caterpillars will arrive in a clear plastic cup with all of the nutritious food they need. Place the cup in a safe place away from direct sunlight. The caterpillars will remain in the cup and will eat, spin silk and grow to TEN times their original size! After seven to ten days they will hang upside down and harden into chrysalides (chrysalides are also known as pupae).

Raise Your Very Own Butterflies

Once the chrysalides have hardened, gently move them to the pop-up butterfly habitat. It will take about seven to ten more days for them to complete the transformation to adult butterflies.

The Butterfly Garden Habitat is a reusable, cylindrical mesh container perfect for up-close butterfly viewing! When not in use it folds flat for easy storage. Then when you wish to raise more butterflies, just order a refill Cup of Caterpillars here.

Butterfly Garden Gift Set With Live Cup of Caterpillars includes:
  • Pop-up, reusable 30cm tall super clear mesh habitat
  • Cup of 3-5 LIVE caterpillars with food or a VOUCHER to redeem later
  • Flower-shaped butterfly feeder
  • 3D Butterfly Stickers
  • Butterfly Wind Up
  • Temporary Bug Tattoos
  • STEM My Butterfly Diary Ages 4-6 (additional copies available here)
  • Feeding pipette
  • Complete instruction guide
  • Chrys-A-Lid™ Holding Log
  • Insect Lore sugar packet to make your very own butterfly nectar

More information:

The STEM Butterfly Diary is a complementary tool designed to enhance your child’s learning, offering a range of fun and engaging activities to complete along the way.

Next, the 3D Butterfly Stickers add an extra touch of magic. These beautiful two-layer stickers bring glittery butterfly fun to almost any crafty project and are perfect for decorating notebooks, greeting cards, or scrapbooks.

In addition, the colourful flower-shaped feeder is ideal for quenching your newly emerged butterflies’ thirst—simply soak the sponge with nectar and place it inside the habitat.

Meanwhile, kids can enjoy hands-on play as they watch how high the wind-up butterfly can fly. Powered by a rubber band, this easy-to-use flying toy is simple to wind and release and will keep children entertained for hours.

Finally, bug tattoos offer a temporary and playful way to wear your favourite insects and complete the experience.

Please note: Butterfly Wind-Up and 3D Butterfly Stickers — colours and styles may vary.

Ages 4+

Price: £28.50 incl VAT (£23.75 ex VAT)

Next Day DHL Delivery (UK addresses only) – If your order includes a LIVE kit, it will be dispatched on your selected send-out date. Please note that this service does not include weekend deliveries.

Need help with your Caterpillar to Butterfly Process? - Watch these informative videos

Click here to watch how to set up your Chrysalis Station

Click here for hints and tips on how to care for your Chrysalis

Click here for hints and tips on feeding your Butterflies

Click here for hints and tips on releasing your Butterflies

All non-live orders leave our offices within 1-3 working days unless the item(s) are out of stock, or if your order includes a Live product with a chosen send-out date of 3 weeks or less away (in which case we will dispatch all goods, live and non-live, on the requested send out date).

Once your order is dispatched, standard delivery time for the UK is approximately 1- 4 working days, depending on your location.  Please allow 10 days for orders outside of the UK.  A Next Working Day option is available for UK delivery only (excludes weekends).

Butterfly Garden Gift Set with 3-5 Caterpillars
Gift Set includes: Butterfly Garden to grow and release your own butterflies, Bug tattoos, 3D Butterfly Stickers, Wind Up Flying Butterfly, Butterfly Diary, Butterfly Feeder and 3-5 LIVE Caterpillars. Young Boy holding a Cup of Caterpillars. Includes 3-5 LIVE caterpillars and food to watch grow and release as Painted Lady butterflies. Three packs of 3D Butterfly Stickers showing the different colour variations; 1. Blue, Red and Black, 2. Orange and Yellow, 3. Blue and Black Three Wind Up Butterfly Flying Toy colour variations; 1. Blue and Black, 2. Orange and Black, 3. Yellow and Black Butterfly observation diary for ages 4-6 with Insect Lore branding.

Overall rating: 4.9733334 / 5 from 75 reviews.

AI Generated Review Summary

The Butterfly Garden Gift Set offers a delightful experience of watching caterpillars grow, though some caterpillars did not develop properly. Customers appreciate the educational value and clear instructions, making it a beautiful and colorful gift, especially for children.

Summary topics

  • Experience: 19%
  • Gift Value: 19%
  • Butterflies: 23%
  • Instructions Clarity: 12%

Review topics: [butterflies, experience, gift, set, instructions, caterpillars, buy, idea, process, updates, kit, emails, lesson, grandson, learning, arrived].

Review highlights

  • "The instructions are very clear and easy for her parents to be able to explain to her what was going on."Jane K.
  • "Instructions were great and materials were good quality."Irene B.
  • "It was such a lovely experience watching nature so close up."J D.

Reviews

My granddaughter loved it. Have

"My granddaughter loved it. Have bought the caterpillars lots of times now and never get tired of seeing the wonder on my grandchildren’s faces when we let the butterflies fly away."

Yvonne H. (5/5)

Amazing

"We had butterflies in our class at school, and after seeing how amazing it was for the children I decided to buy my daughter the gift set for her birthday. The instructions were very clear and we followed them step by step. Luckily all 5 of our caterpillars made it into strong healthy Butterflies that we released on a sunny day. My daughter was sad to let them go but we explained that they were like wild animals and we'd looked after them so well that now they were like grown ups leaving home, ready to start their new lives. We will definitely buy her a set next year too"

Hayley M. (5/5)

A perfect present for nature lovers

"This as a great present, our four-year-old granddaughter absolutely loved it. The instructions are very clear and easy for her parents to be able to explain to her what was going on. The caterpillars all became butterflies, she was very excited to see them in the morning when she got out of bed. She was a little hesitant about having to let go of them but understood that they needed to be out in the wild and so at two days they released them and watched them flying about in their garden. The order was easy to do on line and the parcel arrived on the right date."

Jane K. (5/5)

Arrived on time, as described.

"Arrived on time, as described. This was a birthday gift for our 4 year old granddaughter, she really enjoyed watching the caterpillars develop into butterflies, they all hatched. I would highly recommend."

Jill B. (5/5)

Amazing butterflies

"Absolutely brilliant company. I had 10 caterpillars and all 10 of them turned into beautiful butterflies, my neighbour has a butterfly bush so I released them there. I will definitely do this again."

Suzanne W. (5/5)

Beautiful butterfly experience

"We've loved growing our butterflies and we're very excited to let them out into the world. Instructions were great and materials were good quality. Looking forward to getting a new cup of caterpillars next year."

Irene B. (5/5)

I have given this set

"I have given this set to all 3 of my grandchildren ( 3 different families) who range in age from 3 and 12 and they all loved them. As did I ,as I got regular updates from them, with explanations so I could understand what was happening, so they learnt a lot! This was an unexpected bonus. Easy instructions the butterflies all ""hatched"", total success will be back"

Hilary L. (5/5)

My grandchildren enjoyed seeing the

"My grandchildren enjoyed seeing the development of the caterpillars into butterflies."

Jocelyn L. (5/5)

Amazing experience

"What a joy to watch this life cycle with my Grandchildren. It was such a lovely experience watching nature so close up. We had a lovely moment releasing the butterflies. Very special."

J D. (5/5)

Great

"Great"

Julie D. (5/5)

Q&A

Hello How long does it take from receiving your caterpillars to releasing them ?
Hello, The whole process takes between 3 and 5 weeks!
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