A papier-mâché spider hanging from the ceiling glows blue and green in the school library.
The Glow Show. A Papier-mâché spider illuminated in black light. In the background, you'll see lots of butterflies and other creatures.

Butterfly project updates

Highlights a few projects. Stay tuned for more.

There has been a lot of progress happening with the monarch butterfly book and all the related projects. Of course, the biggest project besides the making of the book are all the butterfly gardens the students are planting at home. Here are a few more highlights, including the mosaic wall by PTO co-president and artist, Kate Demske, called “Faces of Parker Woods Montessori Self-Portrait Mural,” with drawings by kids made into 4×4″ tiles. This isn’t about the book project, but Kate was kind enough to donate a few drawings of butterflies and an inspirational quote that didn’t get included in the book. Also, another favorite project: art teacher Suzanne Nall’s Glow Show. This fantastic black light, bigger than life, butterfly garden. An amazing art show by Suzanne Nall and the students, which looked like an alien world. You truly had to be there to believe it. And there was so much more. I’ve been so busy making the book that I didn’t have time to document all the amazing projects. But stay tuned, I’ll post more updates soon.

A child's drawing of a butterfly glowing in a black lit room.
A corner of the room at the Glow Show showing a fun butterfly.
Glow show butterfly
Another butterfly paper mâché sculpture — or is it a dragonfly?

Butterfly life cycle at the science fair

Science Fair Monarch Biology
A display about the biology of the monarch butterfly, its migration path, and microscopes showing butterfly wings with scales that look like teeth.
Science Fair Monarch Butterfly Study
One of several science fair displays about monarch butterflies.

Student Mosaic

Butterfly tile mosiac 4-panel story
Here is a close-up of the butterfly section of a giant mosaic tile wall. It’s a 4-panel story using drawings that didn’t fit in the book, plus a variation of the cover with my favorite inspirational quote, “If you could do anything, what would you do?” In this case, a caterpillar dreams of becoming a butterfly.
Hundreds of unsorted mosaic ceramic tiles wrapped in bubble wrap.
Here is what all the tiles looked like when they just arrived and are still in the bubble wrap.

March Madness Reading Tournament

A wall with books in tournament brackets.
March Reading Madness. Pictured here is the tournament, but not pictured is the Around the World by Book Reading Passport that I helped create. I didn’t have time to track it down and take a picture.
Picture of Scott Stoll

Scott Stoll

My claim to fame is that I rode a bicycle around the world and wrote some books. More about me.

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