Jake and the Migration
of the Monarch

* In Your Tummy *

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You can enjoy butterflies in your tummy by making some delicious treats.

Materials needed:

Paper plates
Plastic knives
Brownies or crispy rice cookies, cut into squares
Yellow/orange frosting
Thin licorice ropes 
White and black small jelly beans cut in half (You can purchase specific colors at candy stores.)

1. Cut brownies or crispy rice cookies into squares. Then cut the squares diagonally to make two triangles and place them in the center of the paper plate. Place the vertices of the two triangles together to form the shape of a butterfly. 
   Look at a picture of a monarch butterfly in the book.
   What color frosting do you need?
   What other colors do you need?
2. Frost the cookies with yellow/orange frosting.
3. Add thin rope licorice to form the antennae. 
4. On either side of the antennae, add short licorice pieces in symmetrical lines (What is done on one side is done on the other.). 
5. Now add some black and white jelly bean dots.

Other optional ideas:

• Make an open-faced peanut butter sandwich using a square piece of bread. Continue as above, but use pretzel sticks for the antenna and raisins for decorative markings.
• Make another kind of butterfly — Use multi-colored tiny jelly beans cut in half (no frosting needed — Just put the sticky side against the cookie). The color you add to one side should be added to the other side.