Fill in the blanks in the story using the words from the box: flowers, brown, inside, leaves, yummy, beautiful, do, snake, teacher, delicious.

“What do you have under that cloth?” asked the children.

“A very beautiful creature,” said the teacher. “Can you guess?”

“Is it a bird?”

“No.”

“Is it a fish?”

“No.”

“Is it a snake?”

“A snake? No, it isn’t.”

Once upon a time this creature was a little, round, brown egg. The egg was on a leaf and the leaf was on a beautiful flower in a big field. Can you guess? No? Inside the egg was a caterpillar. It was green and black and gold. It liked the delicious flowers in the big field. Mmmm! They were yummy! The caterpillar got bigger and bigger, fatter and fatter. Then one day the caterpillar wasn’t there. Where was it? On one leaf there was a small green cocoon. The caterpillar was inside the cocoon. One day, two days, three days, four days... The caterpillar was still inside the cocoon. Then one beautiful day the cocoon opened. What was inside? Can you guess?

“A beautiful butterfly.”