Props: For this devotional, children can make a no-sew butterfly or the butterfly snack.  

Do you know what a butterfly is before it changes into a butterfly? (Listen for answers.)  Yes, a caterpillar.  The word for "change" in the Bible is the word "Metamorphosis," the same word we use to describe how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly.  The Bible says, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come" (2 Corinthians 5:17).  Becoming a new creation is a metamorphosis, or change, that God makes in our hearts. 

When a caterpillar is living as a caterpillar, can it fly?  Does it look like a butterfly?  Does it act like a butterfly?  No.  However, when the caterpillar's metamorphosis, or change, occurs, it becomes a butterfly.  So you see, the caterpillar can no longer look or act like a caterpillar, because it has become an entirely new creature!  Boys and girls, that's how it is when God saves us.  

Make the Butterfly Treat:

You will need: Celery sticks, cheese in a can, pretzels, shoe-lace licorice.  

What you do: To make the butterfly body, squeeze the cheese into the celery stick.  For the butterfly wings, place two pretzels into the cheese.  For the antennae, cut two pieces of the shoelace licorice, and place them on the tip of the butterfly.    

Eat your yummy treat!