The 10 to 13-year-old girls attending summer camp that the Carver Community Center step into the butterfly greenhouse tent featured outside The Maritime Aquarium.
Some of the girls quickly become comfortable with the butterflies, while other girls take a little longer to warm up to them and flinch when the butterflies narrowly miss their faces as they dart around.
The girls stand still and hold out an arm after they are told that doing so makes butterflies more likely to land on them. When they watch a butterfly settle on them, or another girl informs them of one, the girls have a wide range of reactions.
Some excitedly announce that a butterfly is on them and ask others to take a photo of them, while others stand extremely still and stare warily at the butterfly until their nerves settle, and a couple even screams when they are startled by one.
One of the girls attracts many butterflies, particularly to her hand, so when one lands on the back of her hand while she waits to leave, she offers a young girl in line behind her to transfer the butterfly to her. She asks the young girl to reach her hand out and gently places her own hand next to hers as they watch the butterfly gracefully make the shift. A smile comes across her face as the young girl admires the butterfly and looks up at her family with a big grin.
Through the butterfly exhibit, the girls demonstrate their growth in their ability to embrace and make the best of a new experience even when the unfamiliarity makes them uncomfortable.
