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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Finger Butterfly Activity
Activity Introduction An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about animals in different countries. Finger Butterfly Do you like animals?
Reading & vocabulary
Life Cycle of a Butterfly word search, scramble and crossword puzzles
Vocabulary practice on the life cycle of a butterfly through a crossword puzzle, word scramble, and word search.
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Life cycles & migration
Lesson Plan on Butterfly Life Cycle
Teach elementary students the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle (egg, larva, pupa, adult) and the concept of metamorphosis.
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Crafts & drawing
Roll and Draw A Shape Butterfly Game Sheet | Insect Drawing Activity
A shape-based roll-and-draw dice game in which students build a drawing of a butterfly by rolling for each column of body parts on the game sheet and combining the resulting shapes into a finished picture.
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.
Life cycles & migration
NGSS Third Grade Life Cycle and Migration Project - Activities for 3-LS1-1
An art-integrated science project teaching the monarch butterfly life cycle and seasonal migration, aligned to NGSS 3-LS1-1 (life cycles).
Life cycles & migration
Butterfly Life Cycle – Hands-On Activity Pack
A single-page activity asking students to sequence and label the stages of the butterfly life cycle.
Counting & math
Buggy Addition for beginners PreSchool Kindergarten 1st Grade Homeschool Charts
A simple addition-practice worksheet set using dot-counting on bug/butterfly wings, paired with number tracing and a counting chart, for beginning learners.
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.
Counting & math
Counting Butterly Spots Worksheet
Practice tracing and writing the numbers 1-10 while counting butterfly spots.
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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Reading & vocabulary
Butterflies: Full Day Substitute Plans
A full-day, butterfly-themed substitute-teacher lesson packet for 2nd grade, providing a complete Common Core-aligned schedule of reading, writing, math, and science activities so a substitute can run the whole school day.
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.
Life cycles & migration
Butterflies: Kindergarten Science Projects
A cross-curricular teacher pack (lesson notes, worksheets, displays and activities) for teaching young children about the butterfly life cycle across science, art and English.
Counting & math
Buggy Addition Worksheet
A set of printable number-recognition and addition practice pages using bug-themed dot counters, plus a related counting/tracing page.
Movement & sensory
Physical Education Game: The Jumping Jack
A physical education tag/movement game teaching correct jumping jack sequencing and cross-lateral (right brain/left brain) coordination for early-grade students.
Crafts & drawing
Butterfly Art Lesson for Kids
An art lesson combining a dice-based drawing game with writing tasks to help students create and reflect on butterfly artwork.
Life cycles & migration
Migrating Monarchs: A Cross-Curricular Unit on Butterflies
A cross-curricular reading passage and activity set about monarch butterfly migration, framed as a classroom story, for grades 3-4 social studies/science.
Reading & vocabulary
Word Games with Puzzles Crossword Wordsearch Anagram : AIR ANIMALS
Themed ESL/vocabulary puzzle packet using anagram, copy-words crossword, word-matching, a picture 'wheel' word-connection page, and a word-search puzzle to teach and practice English vocabulary for the topic of air animals.
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Life cycles & migrationReading & vocabulary
KS1 Science: Butterfly Lifecycle Activity Pack (Home-learning)
A home-learning activity pack teaching the four-stage butterfly (and moth) lifecycle, caterpillar anatomy/identification, and related craft, reading, and writing activities, aligned to the UK KS1/Year 2 'Living things and their habitats' / 'Animals' National Curriculum sections.
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Reading & vocabulary
What is the Main Topic? Activity
A reading comprehension activity teaching students to identify the main topic of individual paragraphs and of an entire multi-paragraph text, using a passage about butterflies.
Counting & math
Position Words Butterfly Activity
A hands-on activity teaching positional/spatial vocabulary (above, below, beside, in front of, behind, next to) using butterfly picture cards.
Reading & vocabulary
Letter B Printables
A multi-activity packet for practicing letter B recognition, handwriting, and early literacy skills.