Wild Creative Co.

12/15/2025

Ladies! My daughter was a part of a craft market! She prepared a lot of paint your own salt dough ornament kits and prepainted ornaments. She has a lot left over, I thought I would post to see if anyone is interested! They are $10 or two for $15.00 - it includes 4 ornaments, paint, brush, gems and string! 🎨 Christmas 🎄 🧑‍🎄 ⛄️

12/15/2025

Ladies, my daughter had a craft market today and has some kits left! She worked hard so I thought I would post for her - she has both paint your own salt dough ornament kits and already painted kits. Price is $10.00 or two for $15.00!!

06/23/2024

We found the baby Monarch caterpillar likely from the eggs Lily found last week.

06/19/2024

American Lady Butterfly Caterpillar on a Pearly Everlasting leaf

As I've mentioned in the past we no longer sell the Butterfly Raising Kits as we have learned they are not beneficial to to the species. Although it was a wonderful project I dreamed up quite a few years ago that became a beautiful reality, once learning that we were not helping the butterflies and other pollinators I knew I had to stop. I am here to help share ways to help the pollinators and show you how you can raise your own butterflies. A great way to learn about the species is catching one from the wild and feed and watch it grow and release it when it comes out of its chrysalis. This is what we have done with this one from our garden (and probably hundreds over the past 8 years). we had many caterpillars in our Pearly Everlasting, I kept this one on a potted plant right inside my habitat. that's the simplest way to do it.
If you are thinking of doing this here are a couple of rules for this,
🦋 Make sure you have enough food supply for the caterpillars you keep. Some ways this can be done are harvesting fresh leaves daily from the host plant, or just having a potted host plant in your habitat. The Hungry Caterpillar wasn't lying, they eat and eat and eat! so make sure you have enough.
🦋Make sure you have the correct plant for the caterpillars you have. Each butterfly has its own host plant, this means the adult will only lay eggs on these plants and the caterpillars will only eat this plant as food. So make sure you have the correct plant and butterfly. I love using the iNaturalist app to help ID plants and bugs.
🦋Making sure you are cleaning the habitats between caterpillars, Caterpillars can carry diseases which can be shared amongst each other. Having too many caterpillars in one habitat can also be bad as 1 sick caterpillar can infect any other in your habitat.

I hope this helps you on your journey. If you have questions on this process, please ask!

04/10/2024

hey Ontario friends look outside, the red Red Admiral Butterfly has arrived! The Red Admiral butterfly is found in most warmer climates throughout the world
They migrate to Ontario during the spring. We saw so many in the past 2 days. Each species of butterflies has a host plant that they only lay thier eggs on, for the Red Admiral it's the Nettle family of plants. Their favorite foods are nectar from native plants,sap from trees, muddy puddle, even bird droppings and rotting fruit, yum!! 🤪 Hopefully I can track some local Nettle and find some eggs and caterpillar!

PLEASE NOTE: we will not be sell butterfly kits this year. It was a very hard decision but we now know that the farming process is not beneficial to the species so in efforts to actually help pollinators. If you would like to follow along I am hoping to shares the process to raising and releasing wild caught eggs/caterpillars. (We just keep them safe and fed until they emerge and then release them back into the wild).

06/13/2023

If you have recently purchased have boxwood shrubs please be on the lookout for these invasive caterpillars.

🚨 Attention! We have confirmed the presence of box tree moth at several retail locations in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. We're actively tracing the movement of product originating from Ontario to other retail locations.

If you have recently purchased boxwood shrubs in these areas, check them for this invasive pest. If detected early, the pest can be stopped. 🛑

For more information: https://bit.ly/3p5LzzC

05/02/2023

🦋Did you know $1 from each butterfly kit sold is donated to the Huron Women’s Shelter? 🦋
The Huron Women’s Shelter, Second Stage Housing, and Counselling Services have been a part of the Huron community since 1985. We are committed to a rural community that uplifts and supports one another, and being a safe place for all of our community members to call home. We provide critical services to women and their families experiencing gender-based violence through intake, risk assessment, safety planning, system navigation and advocacy. Where risk is low, we will help a woman plan her next steps accessing safe supports, supports, appropriate referrals and provision of available resources. If a woman is considered high risk and in need of residential support, we are committed to doing all we can to support her safely in a sheltered space.
🦋We are happy to support such a wonderful organization!🦋Huron Women's Shelter, Second Stage Housing and Counselling Services

05/01/2023

🦋Raise your own Butterfly kits are back for pre-order for pick-up mid-May!
🦋We are taking orders until Monday, May 9th at 10pm!
🦋Each kit is $15 it comes with 1 caterpillar, enough food for the caterpillar to get to the chrysalis stage, and instructions.
🦋Please note the kits do not include an enclosure, but we highly recommend making your own out of items found around your house.
We have lots of resources and videos on our Instagram highlights for making enclosures!
🦋This is our favorite family activity, and I am sure it will be yours also!

🦋TO RESERVE YOUR KIT, private message us letting us know:
🌻Your name (if your email money transfer is coming under a separate name please provide both names)
🌻Your phone number (where we can text when we have more info on pick up dates)
🌻number of kits($15/caterpillar)
🌻pick up location (only options are Goderich, Brampton, and Toronto)
Once we receive this information we will let you know where to send the money. Once we receive the funds your Caterpillar is reserved for you, and we will contact you with pick-up information once we know the exact pick-up dates and times.
⭐⭐Pick up locations are:⭐⭐
⭐Toronto (Junction)
⭐Brampton (Chingcousy and Sandalwood)
⭐Goderich

12/08/2022

Check out our holiday photo for this year!
It came out perfect and guess what?? I did it at home all by my self with a small light and a book. I had the kids dress up in their holiday outfits, got everything organized and set up before including the kids. I followed the instructions from Courtney Slazinik - Photography Mentor] and took as many pics as these kids would sit for!

I know that holidays get expensive, here is a great way to get those insta worthy shots without the price tag of a whole photo shoot. Bonus we never had to leave the house!

I will not take credit for this I got the idea and the instructions from Courtney Slazinik - Photography Mentor], go check her insta for the info.

09/06/2022

Three chances to win a kit to raise your own painted lady butterfly!!

These kits make a great classroom gift and what a great way for the kids to bond at the beginning of a school year!!

Kit includes on caterpillar, food and instructions - habitat not included!

It is easy save, follow and tag a friend to be entered in the draw to win one of three kits! Extra entry if you share our contest to your stories

Contest will end Thursday, September 8th at 11:59pm!