We decided to participate in
Journey North's Symbolic Migration. The girls have worked very hard to create butterflies to send. Essentially, as I understand the process, we send our paper monarchs to Journey North in Minnesota. They then send them to children in Mexico who live near the monarch's overwintering sites. These children then care for the paper monarchs over the winter and send them back to Minnesota in the spring. Then Journey North will migrate paper butterflies (although not necessarily the ones we sent) back to us. We can also track the symbolic migration online and see exactly where our monarchs end up.
It sounds like a fabulous project, and the girls are very excited about it. We have a little bit to finish up. Our butterflies still need the information that goes on the back, such as our address and a message in Spanish to the child who cares for our monarchs. We will get them finished up soon to have them out to Journey North by the October 13 deadline.
Here is a picture of the monarch Madeline created. She used water soluble crayons to create it.
