A science craft resource for exploring the stages of the life cycle of a butterfly or caterpillar! This fun alternative to a worksheet provides options for sequencing and can be used as an introduction or review of the butterfly life cycle.
Ideal for a science center, interactive science notebooks, or to support learning about life cycles, insects/bugs, butterflies, or symmetry.
Benefits of this activity:
🦋Low prep
🦋Children learn about the butterfly life cycle in a fun and hands-on way, that’s a bit different from a standard science worksheet.
🦋Can be used to introduce the life cycle, or as a review/assessment to check understanding.
🦋Encourages fine motor/scissor skills, hand-eye coordination (folding), and sequencing.
🦋Differentiated options allow for multiple age ranges or abilities to do the same activity.
🦋Finished foldouts can be inserted into an interactive notebook where they can be referenced by children.
The templates
This resource has 5 similar designs so that you can choose which best suit your students.
🦋Template 1: Children color the butterfly and life cycle stages, sequence the stages, glue, cut, and fold.
🦋Template 2: As above but with a rectangle around the butterfly for easier cutting.
🦋Template 3: Children design a pattern for the butterfly, color the life cycle stages, sequence the stages, glue, cut, and fold.
🦋Template 4: As above but with a rectangle around the butterfly for easier cutting.
🦋Template 5: Large template over 2 pages. Option to sequence the stages with their names or with short descriptions.
Designs 3-5 could also be decorated with stickers, sequins, pompoms, or other embellishments!
Also included:
🦋Color poster showing life cycle stages
🦋Label a butterfly cut and paste sheet
Instructions outlining how to fold are also included. There are 2 versions of this file – one with US paper size and spelling, the other for the UK/AUS. This 12-page PDF resource is not editable.
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