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READ-ALOUD: The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies

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READ-ALOUD: The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies

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This book, The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies by Kay Barnham, is a great resource to use for a read-aloud with your students! This book is about the journey of a young boy & girl as they find out about butterflies life cycle. This amazingly illustrated picture book explores each part of the life cycle process while explaining each stage in detail.

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Follow the journey of a young boy and girl as they find out about insect life cycles. This beautifully illustrated picture book explores the life cycle process and explains each stage in detail.

'Look and Wonder' is a fresh, bold and bright, narrative non-fiction picture book series, for children aged 4 and up, introducing children to life cycles and the natural world. The eye-poppingly colourful digital illustration style will explain the scientific concepts while the light and fun text-style will make these books real home and classroom favourites.

Perfect for the EYFS and KS1 primary curriculum study of life cycles.

Other titles in the series:
A Stroll Through the Seasons
A Wonderful World of Weather
Incredible Rainforests
The Amazing Butterfly Life Cycle Story
The Amazing Plant Life Cycle Story
The Awesome Night Sky
The Great Big Water Cycle Adventure

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The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies (Look and Wonder)

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The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies (Look and Wonder) [Barnham, Kay] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies (Look and Wonder)

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This is an amazing education video! It is engaging and provided great visuals and description of all the parts of a Butterfly's life cycle!

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Life Cycle of a Butterfly | #aumsum #kids #science #education #whatif

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This quiz is great for visual learners! When choosing an answer students can visibly see what part of the life cycle they are choosing. If you did not want to use this exact quiz, I do think this is a good template to refer back to when creating your own!

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Life Cycle of the Butterfly Formative Assessment

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This formative assessment is the perfect way to find out if your students understand the life cycle of a butterfly. This can also be used for a pre-assessment!

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CRAFT: Butterfly Life Cycle Paper Plate Craft

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CRAFT: Butterfly Life Cycle Paper Plate Craft

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This is a great hands-on craft for your students! Not only is pretty to hang up in your schools hallway but it also helps students get a real visual of all the parts of a Butterflies life cycle. Once your students are done creating their artwork they can use it to re-tell the stages of butterfly life cycle.

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In this fun spring craft for kids, children will illustrate the butterfly life cycle right onto a paper plate. This post also contains a free printable template to help get you started! (This post contains affiliate links.)
*This post was originally published on March 12, 2015 and has since been updated.
Spring is the perfect time of year to learn all about butterflies! We've seen quite a few fluttering around our backyard over the last couple weeks, and have encountered lots of cute, fuzzy caterpillars around town.

The kids have had lots of questions about caterpillars and butterflies, so we've been reading some books about the life cycle of butterflies to learn more. ( From Caterpillar to Butterfly is a good one to read!)

After learning all kinds of butterfly facts, I decided it was time to whip out my trusty, old paper plate butterfly life cycle craft from my teaching days to do with the kids!

See it in action here:
Be sure to check out these other caterpillar and butterfly activities on Buggy and Buddy:
Materials for Butterfly Life Cycle Craft

Directions for Butterfly Life Cycle Craft

1. Optional: Use tempera paint to paint your paper plate. Let it dry. (You can skip this step, we just wanted to add some color to our craft!)

2. Print out the free butterfly life cycle template. Cut out the circle and glue it in the center of your paper plate.

3. Egg Section

Cut out a small leaf from your green construction paper.

Draw lines on your leaf with your black marker or crayon. (These are our absolute favorite black pens to use for tracing and drawing.)

Glue some small, white pompoms onto your leaf to represent the eggs.

Glue the leaf and eggs onto the leaf section of your plate.

4. Caterpillar Section

Choose two different colored pipe cleaners to use for your caterpillar. Cut the pipe cleaners so they are each 6 inches long.

Twist the two pipe cleaners together.

Wrap the twisted pipe cleaners around a pencil.

Slide it off.

Glue your caterpillar onto the caterpillar section of your plate.

5. Chrysalis Section

Glue a small twig onto the chrysalis section of your plate.

To make the chrysalis, cut a piece of tissue paper so it's 2 inches x 3 inches.

Twist the top and bottom of the rectangle to form a chrysalis shape.

Glue it next to the twig on your paper plate.

6. Butterfly Section

Choose two colors of tissue paper to use for your butterfly wings. Cut them to 2 inches x 2.5 inches.

Stack the pieces of tissue paper together and round the corners with your scissors.

Cut a black pipe cleaner so it's 2.5 inches long. Scrunch up the center of both pieces of tissue paper and twist your black pipe cleaner around it.

Glue your cute, little butterfly onto the butterfly section of your paper plate.

You're all done! Once the craft is dry, your child can use it to retell the stages of the butterfly life cycle!

Be sure to check out STEAM Kids book and ebook for even more creative STEM and STEAM ideas!

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Butterfly Life Cycle Paper Plate Craft - Buggy and Buddy

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In this fun spring craft for kids, children will illustrate the butterfly life cycle right onto a paper plate. This post also contains a free printable template to help get you started! (This post contains affiliate links.) *This post was originally published on March 12, 2015 and has since been updated.

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This game is a great technology resource for your classroom! You can post it to your student's google classroom for students to play in class and even at home! This game reviews all the information about Butterfly metamorphosis.

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Key Science Facts

This science educational game for children, helps review lessons on the stages or life cycle of butterflies and moths - called metamorphosis.

A butterfly begins life as an egg.

The larva hatches from an egg.

Larva is also called caterpillar.

The plural of larva is larvae.

The caterpillar sheds its skin many times as it grows.

This process of losing its skin is called molting.

At a resting stage, the caterpillar turns into a pupa or chrysalis.

From the pupa, an adult butterfly emerges and flies around.

Game: The Kango Boomerang Game is a time-limited game of drag and drop activities.
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Children learn about the butterfly life cycle during primary grades. Key concepts of this learning include: The stages or life cycle of butterflies and moths is called metamorphosis. A butterfly begins life as an egg. The larva hatches from an egg. Larva is also called caterpillar. The plural of larva is larvae. The caterpillar sheds its skin many times as it grows. This process of losing its skin is called molting. At a resting stage, the caterpillar turns into a pupa or chrysalis. From the pupa, an adult butterfly emerges and flies around. In Butterfly Life Cycle - Science Spelling Game for Kids, students get a chance to spell familiar terms they have learned about the butterfly life cycle. Part of the letters are already in the blocks and part have to be dragged and dropped in for the answers to be complete. After answering each question, the following screen features a colorful Parrot chef baking fresh deserts. When the answer is correct, the baked desert comes out perfect, but when the answer is incorrect, the baked dish is burned! This game would be great for science partners to work on between other activities. Read Less

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Butterfly Life Cycle - Science Game for Kids

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This science game helps kids practice the life cycle of a butterfly. It is suitable for primary school first and second grade learners.

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This song is a great for auditory learners! Students can stand up and groove all while learning about the life cycle of butterflies! Get your students blood flowing and brain pumping!

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Life Cycle Of A Butterfly | Metamorphosis | Metamorphosis Song | Jack Hartmann

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FLIP-BOOK: Butterfly Life Cycle Flip Book

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FLIP-BOOK: Butterfly Life Cycle Flip Book

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This activity is great for getting your students hands on! Students can quiz themselves using this. For example they can say what think stage 1, then flip up the tap to check themselves. This link has it where you can have the names of the stages for students already, or where they can write the names. This can help you as a teacher if you need differentiation!

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This song is a great resource for students who are not big visual learners, but learn better with auditory. This song is not only catchy, but also can provide student's with a "brain break" where they are learning without even realizing it.

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Beautiful Butterfly | Butterfly Metamorphosis | Life Cycle of a Butterfly/Jack Hartmann

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This worksheet provides a great visual to students of the Butterfly Life Cycle. Students match the pictures to the appropriate circles on the worksheet. This arrows in this cycle show that students that life cycles do not have an ending point, that they are continuous.

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This butterfly life cycle worksheet helps children visualize the different stages of metamorphosis.

Read on to learn about the different stages, suggestions on using this printable activity and grab a copy to print out at home. It's a fantastic way to get kids interested in science!

You may also like this butterfly addition ten frame worksheet, these bat life cycle worksheets and find even more learning ideas in our 30 Days of Science Activities Plan.

Do you love butterflies? I do!

When I was little, I remember finding caterpillars and putting them in a jar. I would feed them and wait for them to make a chrysalis.

A couple years ago, I ordered a butterfly kit with live caterpillars so the kids could watch most of the butterfly life cycle right in our living room.

Getting the kit was much easier than searching for caterpillars ourselves.

It's important to find fun ways to engage kids in science and this is a fantastic way to teach kids about how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Printable

Our free butterfly life cycle worksheet is a great way for kids to visualize each stage of metamorphosis.

If you get a caterpillar kit, they can follow along with the life cycle of a butterfly printable by gluing each stage in order as they observe it.

This is a great science activity for kids of all ages to learn about butterflies.

Preschool and kindergarten children can also practice fine motor skills and scissor skills by cutting and gluing the eggs, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly.

Stages of Metamorphosis

Did you know there are about 17,500 species of butterflies in the world? Only about 750 types of butterflies live in the United States.

So what is metamorphosis? Metamorphosis is how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly during the pupa stage.

There are four stages of a butterfly's life and then it starts all over again. Depending on the type of butterfly, the life cycle can last one month up to an entire year!

Watch this great video by SciShow Kids about how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

Stage One: Egg

All butterflies begin their life as a very small egg. Butterflies lay eggs on leaves.

Since caterpillars only like to eat certain leaves, the mother butterfly will lay her egg on a leaf that her caterpillar will eat.

Stage Two: Larva

When the egg hatches, a butterfly larva emerges. We call them caterpillars.

Just like in The Very Hungry Caterpillar book, the main thing a caterpillar will do is eat.

Stage Three: Pupa

Once the caterpillar has eaten enough to grow as big as it will get, they find a place to hang and change themselves into a pupa, also known as a chrysalis.

On our butterfly life cycle printable activity, we have two pictures to represent this stage.

The green chrysalis is shortly after the caterpillar is done changing into a pupa.

While inside, the caterpillar's body goes through a lot of changes!

Once it is done turning into a butterfly, it will emerge from the chrysalis.

This is represented by the second chrysalis picture on our printable where the chrysalis changed color and a butterfly wing is starting to emerge.

Stage Four: Butterfly

If you have the live butterfly kit, you can watch as your butterflies emerge. You'll notice that they do not fly immediately.

Their wings are soft and folded up after being crammed inside the chrysalis. They need time to rest before flying.

This is why it's important to have some nectar or fruit available for them.

Then you may observe them flapping their wings (but not flying) as they get the blood pumping into their wings.

As they gain strength, they will be ready to fly away.

Adult butterflies look for opportunities to reproduce and the cycle starts over again when a female lays her eggs!

We hope you enjoy using this life cycle of a butterfly printable along with the butterfly kits with live caterpillars for a fun spring science unit.
Our free printable butterfly life cycle is for personal use at home or in your classroom. Share this post with anyone else who would like to use this too. Download the Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet
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This butterfly life cycle worksheet helps children visualize the different stages of metamorphosis. Read on to learn about the different stages, suggestions on using this printable activity and grab a copy to print out at home. It's a fantastic way to get kids interested in science!

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WHEEL ACTIVITY: Butterfly Life Cycle Activity!

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WHEEL ACTIVITY: Butterfly Life Cycle Activity!

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This activity is a great way to have an interactive learning tool for teaching students about insect life cycles.

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Carefully cut out the two circles and place one on top of the other.

Poke a paper fastener through the center and... Viola! You have an interactive learning tool for teaching students about insect life cycles.

This activity works best when the pages are copied onto thick card stock.

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Carefully cut out the two circles and place one on top of the other. Poke a paper fastener through the center and... Viola! You have an interactive learning tool for teaching students about insect life cycles. This activity works best when the pages are copied onto thick card stock.