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Butterfly Printables

Butterfly Unit Study

As Spring starts to pop up everywhere we think of fresh new beginnings! Butterflies are an essential and often the first visitor of spring.  Diving into a unit about Butterflies is a great theme for students of all ages. Use our free Butterfly unit study to create hands-on learning opportunities in your homeschool and classroom.

Learning About Butterflies:

The following questions and ideas can be worked on independently with older children or worked on together if need be. This is just a start, and we have tons of resources below to help your students answer these questions!

  • What is it called when a caterpillar sheds its skin?
  • What is a chrysalis?
  • How many stages are there in metamorphosis?
  •  What do caterpillars eat?
  • What do butterflies eat?
  • How far can a butterfly travel?
  • How long is a butterfly life cycle?
  • Name 10 Butterfly Species

Butterfly Life Cycle with LEGO

While we have a Safari Butterfly Life Cycle Set it can be more fun and helps the information stick even better when your child can use their hands and imagination to create their own version. Sometimes we use playdough, sometimes we draw it, and sometimes like today we use LEGO (TM) to create a fun and easy butterfly life cycle.

You will need:

  • A LEGO (TM) baseplate
  • Various sizes of individual LEGO (TM)Bricks
  • Photo of life cycle for Reference

Use small single studs to represent a few eggs for the start of your life cycle. Two or three 4×2 bricks in a row make a great caterpillar.

Repeat the last step but run them vertically and add a long single  for a stem for your chrysalis. Finally, let your child make a spectacular butterfly, you can use whatever colors you wish for your model, we chose to go with the colors of a Monarch, one of our favorite

Butterfly Preschool & Kindergarten Printables

Your little learners will love these free Buttefly Life Cycle Printables from KindergartenMom.com This beautiful full-color illustration shows the life cycle of a butterfly, from egg to adult. This chart looks beautiful hanging in your classroom and is a great reference for the butterfly worksheets and activities below. There are multiple follow up activity pages, sequencing stories, a life cycle spinner and more.

Butterfly Life Cycle Printables:

Free Butterfly Life Cycle Printables from SuperStarWorksheets.com

If you’re looking for butterfly life cycle worksheets that are simple, yet effective for teaching all about butterflies, we’ve got you covered! You’ll find these butterfly worksheets free to use and easy to print with an instant download. These are great for designing your own Butterfly Science Notebooks as students can add color to them as needed.

Butterfly Mimicry Printables

Learn about mimicry with this free printable research guide. Students identify the visual differences between a monarch butterfly and a viceroy butterfly. Older kiddos can research and report interesting facts they learn along the way. Print this free science worksheet from SuperStarWorksheets.com

Raise Your Own Butterflies!

Probably the most hands-on fun that you can have during your Butterfly Unit Study, is to raise your own butterflies.

You can purchase a butterfly habitat and raise butterflies indoors. The habitats come with a certificate for free caterpillars and you can watch them grow and turn into butterflies right in your own living room! We have done this year after year with painted lady butterflies and we get return visitors from subsequent generations every spring!

Plant Your Own Butterfly Garden:

Did you know that you can order FREE Milkweed seeds to start your own butterfly garden! Have your child write out a SASE to send away for free milkweed seeds to help feed the butterflies in your area. This is a great way to learn about butterflies year after year!

Besides milkweed, there are a variety of plants and bushes that butterflies love! Try cultivating these specific varieties in your own backyard. You can even find Butterfly Garden Seed Mixes to get started quickly! Look for Asters, Goldenrod, Butterfly Bush, Hyssop, Liatris, Flox, Black Eyed Susan, Lavendar, Cosmos, Sunflowers, Bowles Mauve, Sedum, and Zinnea.

Butterfly Art Project for Kids

Students of all ages are thrilled to create this stunning butterfly art project. This is a simple Butterfly art project as is only uses a piece of black construction paper, our free butterfly template, and some chalk pastels. You’ll find that your students will want to create a classroom full of butterflies with this technique! Click Here for a full photo and video tutorial.

Butterfly Sensory Bin Ideas

Grab some plastic or silk butterflies and turn a simple bin into a magical butterfly sensory bin that helps your child understand a little more about butterflies by examining replicas,  looking at books, hearing your explanation about how they and caterpillars feed on flowers and more.

You will need:

  • A shallow plastic bin
  • Plastic butterflies
  • Flowers, sticks, etc…
  • First have a fun scavenger hunt in the yard looking for flowers, grass, sticks, and other items to use as a base in  your bin. Give your child a basket and collect things they think butterflies might use for eating, resting, laying eggs, etc..
  • Let them arrange their findings in the sensory bin.
  • Add plastic butterflies and caterpillars and you are done!
  • Talk about what else butterflies need? Maybe water? Mist your flowers with water from a spray bottle so they can drink from the “dew”
  • While your child is playing you can discuss the life cycle, read a book on butterflies, and just enjoy them, trust me busy hands listen well!

Butterfly Art Project for Preschoolers

This craft is not just for preschoolers, older children really enjoy this one as well, let them do as much of the project as they can on their own so they can truly make it their own.

You will need:

  • Thick white paper (Optional Template)
  • Black construction paper
  • Craft Paint
  • Craft glue
  • Scissors

Directions:

  • Fold a piece of thick paper in half then open it back up,lay flat on table on top of newspaper to catch any mess.
  • Dribble several different colors of craft paint on one half of the paper, stay a few inches from the edge of the paper.
  • Close the paper and let your child press, squeeze, and rub on top of the closed paper to spread the paint around on the inside.
  • Open and allow to dry completely.
  • Close the paper back and draw a simple butterfly shape, cut it out leaving the folded edge uncut.
  • Cut a long body for your butterfly out of black paper and secure it to the center with glue

Butterfly Books for Preschoolers

Wondering what the best thematic books are for your preschoolers? I’ll share with you one of my favorites — butterflies! Butterflies are such fun insects to explore with your little one. Here are the 10 best butterfly books for preschoolers that include counting, nature’s miracles, and beautiful images!

Free Butterfly Preschool Printables

Butterfly Life Cycle Stamps

ButterflyPinThis set of life cycle stamps can be used over and over again!  Make a set for each bug you’re learning about!  Older children can make their own very easily, and use them to decorate research paper and to make visual examples on presentations.

Materials:

  • Craft Foam, Scrap Wood, Glue, Scissors, Pencil, Ink

 


Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

ButterflyScience   butterflygarden    butterfly2 stamppad


Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

Start by designing your stamp on the craft foam. Use your pencil and press hard

Step 2

Make sure that your pressing into the foam so that it stays indented.

Step 3

Once drawn, cut out all of your life cycle shapes

Step 4

Glue your shapes onto the backs of a piece of scrap wood. You can also use a wooden cube, an empty milk carton, yogurt cup or anything that has a flat surface and can take a bit of pressure.

Step 5

Allow your stamps to dry before using. Ink your stamp well by applying pressure

Step 6

Stamp your image onto paper too see how it turned out!

Step 7

Align your stamps in a circle for your life cycle and draw arrows showing which step is next!

All Done!

Now you've got a great set of Life Cycle Stampers! Hint: Use a diaper wipe to wash off the stamp in between colors.

Making a Classroom Quilt: Printables!

April 21, 2013 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

 

Yup, just for you!

QuiltPin

We’ve got ABC’s, 123’s, and everything in between!

You can print it all FREE!

Wondering how to use the printables?

It couldn’t be eaiser!

 


Print up a set of Classroom Quilt Printables.  You can use regular paper, if children are coloring with markers or watercoloring you might use cardstock instead.


Print up a set of Classroom Quilt Printables. You can use regular paper, if children are coloring with markers or watercoloring you might use cardstock instead.

NOTE:  Some of our Classroom Quilt printables even come with optional handwriting practice on the side.  You can instruct children to cut this part off first, write their name on it and turn it in.


NOTE: Some of our Classroom Quilt printables even come with optional handwriting practice on the side. You can instruct children to cut this part off first, write their name on it and turn it in.

Have each child color in their own quilt square.  Have them write their names on the back.


Have each child color in their own quilt square. Have them write their names on the back.

Have each child cut out their own quilt square.  There are easy cut dotted lines around the square.


Have each child cut out their own quilt square. There are easy cut dotted lines around the square.

Show children how to slide their square into the correct pocket.


Show children how to slide their square into the correct pocket.


This is the Quilt Pocket Chart we use, however any bulletin board or blank wall space works too!

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Stand back and enjoy your classroom quilt!  These look amazing when they are filled up with children's artwork!


Stand back and enjoy your classroom quilt!
These look amazing when they are filled up with children’s artwork!

 

Like our Classroom Quilt Pocket Chart?
Here’s where we got it!

Ready to make your own?

Click Here for ALL of our Classroom Quilt Printables

ABC Quilt

123 Quilt

Alphabet Animals Quilt

Butterfly Quilt

Christmas Quilt

Community Helpers Quilt

Earth Day

Easter Quilt

Farm Animal Quilt

Seasons Quilt

 

Want to suggest a theme?

Have an idea for using these in the classroom?

Leave us a comment below!


Filed Under: Animal Crafts, Butterfly Printables, Christmas Printables, Classroom Projects, Coral Reef Crafts, Creation Crafts, Earth Day Crafts, homeschool printables, Preschool Printables Tagged With: alphabet, classroom quilt, coloring, free, handwriting, homeschool, numbers, pocket chart, printables, teacher resources

Butterfly Lapbook & Notebooking Pages

April 15, 2013 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

It’s Spring!!

Around here that means butterflies!
I’ve just compiled an easy “pinable” list of our most popular butterfly printables.
We’ve also added some NEW butterfly notebooking pages so be sure to check those out too.

Preschool Butterfly Printables on Preschool Mom
Lifecycle Sequencing Cards
Lifecycle Classroom Charts
Butterfly Wordwall Cards
Butterfly Matching Game
Butterfly Counting Game
Butterfly Coloring Pages/Handwriting Worksheets
2 Butterfly File Folder Games

Butterfly Notebooking Pages on The Crafty Classroom
8 Notebooking pages featuring stunning full color photographs of different butterflies.

Butterfly Lifecycle Craft on The Crafty Classroom
This easy DIY craft will become your favorite go-to project for all your buggy themes this year!

Butterfly Lapbook on Lapbook Lessons
Printable Life Cycle Wheel
Label the Parts Worksheet
Butterfly Coloring Page
Butterfly Bible Verse
Bug Counters
and more!

Butterfly Bible Lesson on Preschool Post
-Morning Circle Time
-Preschool Theme
-Letter of the Week
-Music & Movement
-Center Time Activities
-Snack Suggestion
-Thematic Craft
-Bible Theme
-Bible Verse
-Bible Song
-Optional Resources

Hope that helps you get started on those Spring Lapbooks!

Blessings,

Valerie

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