On your own at the Butterfly House

If your group was unable to schedule a visit to the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House through our education programs, the following activities have been designed to help make your group visit to the Butterfly House meaningful and enhance the educational opportunities for your group.

Scout Programs

Brownie Bugs badge:  Join a Butterfly House insect keeper to meet all the requirements for the Brownie Bugs badge.  Observe living insects and spiders in their habitats and complete crafts to learn the importance of insects in our lives.

Webelos Naturalist badge:  Bugs are committing capers and these mysteries need solving by Scout investigators. Join a Butterfly House detective to observe the crime scene, collect the clues and solve the case in the Case of the Dismembered Cricket.

The programs will be offered on weekends only. Pre-registration is required. Please call 636-530-0076, ext. 13 to register your den or troop.  The cost for the program is $7 per scout and 1 adult for every 5 children will be admitted free. Additional adults beyond the required number will pay the regular admission rate of $6.  

Patch program

Don't you want to be bugged? Are you crawling for something new? Try the Butterfly House's Patch Program. Whether you are a Junior Entomologist (ages 7 and up) or a Beginning Entomologist (6 and under), we have an activity for you.

Each child will receive a booklet to complete while visiting our facility. Find out what butterflies eat, or what would eat a tarantula. Use the colorful patch as a commemoration for your visit. This self-guided visit is a fun-filled hour. Please note that the booklet does not meet any Scout badge requirements.

The Patch Program costs $3.50 per child in

addition to the regular admission and includes the booklet and patch.  Group rates are available for ten or more paid admissions.  Each child should bring a pencil and crayons, markers, or colored pencils.

The Butterfly House is located at Faust Park in Chesterfield, Missouri.

Scavenger hunt

You can download this scavenger hunt (page 1 and page 2) and print it off for your students to take with them as they walk through The Butterfly House. Explanations for the butterfly behaviors can be found by clicking here.