Life cycles & migration
Butterfly Life Cycle Craft Foldable Science Cut and Paste Activity
A hands-on cut-and-paste foldable craft teaching the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle/metamorphosis (eggs, larva, pupa, butterfly).
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Crafts & drawing
Finger Butterfly Activity
Cut out the butterfly shape, color and decorate it, fold along the dotted line, wrap two pieces of pipe cleaner around a finger, glue them to the butterfly's body, and wear the butterfly on a finger.
Life cycles & migration
Lesson Plan on Butterfly Life Cycle
Students discuss butterflies, watch a video, participate in guided discussion, then complete a worksheet matching life-cycle stages to descriptions, sequencing the stages, filling in vocabulary blanks, coloring/drawing each stage, and naming another animal that undergoes metamorphosis.
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Crafts & drawing
Roll and Draw A Shape Butterfly Game Sheet | Insect Drawing Activity
Roll a die once for each roll column (shape (body parts), wings, antennae, movement marks), copy the shape/element shown for that roll onto their own paper to build a butterfly drawing, then add extra details and color the finished picture. A name/date page is provided for the student to fill in.
Life cycles & migration
NGSS Third Grade Life Cycle and Migration Project - Activities for 3-LS1-1
Read learning pages about monarch generations and migration, complete an exit-ticket comprehension check, handwrite life-cycle/season vocabulary onto butterfly wing cutouts, color the wings by generation using guided color instructions, then cut, fold and glue the butterflies together in seasonal order to build a…
Life cycles & migration
Butterfly Life Cycle – Hands-On Activity Pack
Arrange the butterfly life-cycle stages in order and write the name of each stage.
Counting & math
Butterfly Garden Roll + Cover/Bump Game
This is a Butterfly Garden Roll + Cover/Bump Game. Your little learners get to practice numbers and counting with this activity . There are 2 different ways these activities can be used - as a Roll and Cover or a Roll and Bump game. Directions are included for how to play.
Reading & vocabulary
Life Cycle of a Butterfly word search, scramble and crossword puzzles
Students solve crossword clues, unscramble words, and find words in a grid using butterfly life-cycle and anatomy vocabulary.
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Counting & math
Counting Butterly Spots Worksheet
count the spots on each butterfly, trace the printed number, and write the number in the box.
Reading & vocabulary
Butterflies: Full Day Substitute Plans
Students complete morning/afternoon class meeting message worksheets, independently read and fill out fiction/non-fiction reader-response forms, solve addition/subtraction problems to color a caterpillar and a symmetry butterfly-wings worksheet, review the butterfly life cycle and complete two life-cycle worksheets…
Counting & math
Butterfly Number Cards
Provide numeral cards and number-word cards (0-20) for numeral/word recognition and matching practice, in a butterfly theme.
Counting & math
Buggy Addition Worksheet
Use the dots on bug/butterfly illustrations to solve addition problems, trace numbers 1-10 and their number words, and cut out numbers 1-20 to use with a blank addition board.
Movement & sensory
Physical Education Game: The Jumping Jack
Students learn skill-cue posters (caterpillar/arms down-feet together, butterfly/arms up-feet apart, open scissors, closed scissors) that break down the jumping jack sequence, then play a tag game on poly-spots: taggers chase students, tagged students perform 3 jumping jacks in an exercise area, and periodically the…
Crafts & drawing
Coping Skills SEL Coloring Pages – 4 Strategy Sheets
Four shape-outline coloring pages — a teddy bear, a butterfly, an umbrella, and a beach ball — each spell out four coping strategies in words that trace the outline of the shape, and students color each section using the color assigned to that strategy (for example, the teddy bear's stress-ball section is colored dark brown, its breathing section pink). A fifth page, titled ‘16 Coping Skills Strategies,’ lists all sixteen strategies used across the four shapes as a single grid, functioning as a stand-alone reference chart independent of the coloring pages. Strategies range from physical actions like taking a walk or squeezing a stress ball to social ones like talking to an adult or asking for a hug, giving students a visual menu of self-regulation options rather than a single fixed routine. Each page opens with a blank name line, suggesting the set is meant to be completed and kept by an individual student.
Life cycles & migration
Migrating Monarchs: A Cross-Curricular Unit on Butterflies
Students read a narrative-style passage (a classroom dialogue about monarch butterfly facts), fill in a word web summarizing what they read, write a diary-style story imagining themselves as a migrating monarch, and complete a suffix-based vocabulary builder worksheet.
Reading & vocabulary
Word Games with Puzzles Crossword Wordsearch Anagram : AIR ANIMALS
Unscramble anagram clues, copy given words into a themed crossword grid, complete a word-matching page, trace/connect words on a picture 'wheel' page, and find themed words in a word-search letter grid, checking work against the included answer/reference pages. Vocabulary set: dove, sparrow, hawk, eagle, vulture…
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Reading & vocabulary
What is the Main Topic? Activity
Students read a multi-paragraph passage ('The Beautiful Butterfly'), then for each paragraph identify important words and choose the paragraph's topic from a set of options (lifecycle of a butterfly, parts of a butterfly, types of butterflies), building toward identifying the main topic of the whole article.
Counting & math
Position Words Butterfly Activity
Describe the shape of an object on each picture card, describe the butterfly's position relative to that object, then match picture cards to the correct relative-position word card (e.g. 'below').
Movement & sensory
Gross Motor Story Book: Nature Walk
Follow the simple narrative of things found on a nature walk (butterfly, frog, snail, tree, stick) and perform the matching gross motor movement for each (fly like a butterfly, jump like a frog, belly crawl like a snail, wave arms like tree branches, hold still like a stick).
Life cycles & migrationReading & vocabulary
Guided Reading Level K - The Life of a Butterfly (with Lesson Plan)
This Guided Reading Book - The Life of a Butterfly (Level K) with lesson plan includes: Guided Reading Color Label (front cover x1) This is a quick way to match the book’s demands to what students can generally handle.. The overall goal is to use the level/color to pick books for several smaller groups. To qualify for…
Counting & math
Buggy Addition for beginners PreSchool Kindergarten 1st Grade Homeschool Charts
Students count the dots on each side of a bug or butterfly's wings and add them to find the sum, trace the numbers 1-10 and their number words, and reference a 1-20 counting chart.
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SUPER FREE PACK | Dot Activities | 124 pages
Connect numbered dots to reveal a picture (butterfly, bee, and other images), trace numbers 1-9 by connecting dots labeled with the Spanish or English number word, and complete additional connect-the-dots exercises.
Reading & vocabulary
Butterfly Alphabet Cards
Match capital letters to their lowercase counterparts (e.g. matching game, letter fishing game) and use the cards to practice letter recognition.
Life cycles & migration
Butterfly Life Cycle Adapted Book / Google Slides
An adapted (simplified) book on butterfly life-cycle vocabulary and anatomy for early learners and special education students.
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