Butterfly Project

One of my blog friends is collecting 51 butterflies to be donated to the Holocaust Museum Butterfly Project. See her blog here  http://paperturtle.blogspot.com/2012/02/butterfly-project.html 
See Museum Project here http://hmh.org/ed_butterfly1.shtml
This week I finished three small stained glass butterflies and delivered them to the Museum here in Houston.  

 While I was at the Museum, I purchased the paperback book titled ...I never saw another butterfly...  It is a collection of children's drawings and poems who were in a concentration camp.   The employees at the Museum were so thankful for the butterflies that they gave me a discount on the book.  As of last week they have collected around 950,000 butterflies.

I have toured the museum before with my children on school educational trips.  It is hard to see the film and pictures of what Jews had to endure while in the camp.  I left the Museum with a heavy heart saddened by the reminder of how cruel people were treated.

Other butterflies are in the works.  Two of my instructors are working on lesson plans for next week to include the Butterfly Project. I am making a few origami butterflies using scrapbook paper.   How about you?  Can you donate a butterfly or two?  If so, visit the Holocaust Museum website for more information.  Together we can help the Museum reach the goal of 1.5 million butterflies to represent the number of children who lost their lives in the Holocaust.