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Butterfly and Caterpillar Preschool and Kindergarten Crafts, Activities, Lessons, and Printables
Crawl and Fly into springtime with this theme on caterpillars and butterflies. These two forms of the same creature provide opportunities for children to learn about insect life cycles and develop compare and contrast skills. In addition, they are introduced to the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and many fun rhymes and games that encourage language development, movement, nutrition, math ability, and respect for the natural world. Butterflies are not only beautiful creatures, they are important to the earth's ecosystem. Your children will have fun learning about caterpilllars and butterflies with our more than 80 NEW preschool and kindergarten crafts, activities, games, lessons, printables, and other resources.
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Free Butterfly and Caterpillar Crafts, Activities, and Printables
Butterfly Art Project
With brush paint generous amount of water on a coffee filter. Shortly after, use colored paint to decorate wings. Set aside to dry. Print and cut butterfly body out of craft paper and decorate. Glue coffee filter wings to the back of the butterfly body. Glue butterfly on craft paper. Cut two small pipe cleaner strips and glue onto the head of the butterfly. Hang butterflies from ceiling.
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Butterfly Match
Have children create several different colored butterflies. Cut them in half. Let children match the butterfly halves.
Clothespin Butterfly
Make a pattern for the body out of card stock or construction paper. Let children cut out and decorate. Then fold the body and clamp it into a clothespin.
Butterfly and Caterpillar Rhymes:
The Fuzzy Caterpillar
The fuzzy caterpillar curled up on a leaf.
Spun her little chrysalis and then fell fast asleep.
While she was sleeping, she dreamed that she could fly.
And later when she woke up, she was a butterfly.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Animated Story Video
Butterfy, Butterfly
Butterfly, butterfly, flutter around.
Butterfly, butterfly, touch the ground.
Butterfly, butterfly, fly so free.
Butterfly, butterfly, land on me!
Butterfly, butterfly, reach the sky,
Butterfly, butterfly, say good-bye
(Author unknown)
Butterfly and Caterpillar Books:
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Where Butterflies Grow (Picture Puffins) |
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Charlie the Caterpillar |
Clara Caterpillar |
Gotta Go! Gotta Go! (Sunburst Book)
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
Ladybug, Ladybug
Ladybug, ladybug, (Move fingers.)
Let me see you crawl, (Crawl slowly on all fours.)
Hurry after those harmful bugs (Move quickly on all fours.)
But be careful, do not fall! (Fall over.)
Ladybug Rhyme Printables
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Other Great Preschool and Kindergarten Butterfly and Ladybug Activities and Links:
Pictures of the Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Eric Carle's Official Site