Butterfly lesson plans for kids

Giving Time - Teaching Skills for Life

• Try The Very Hungry Caterpillar Bookwhich is about a caterpillar who eats his way through
• the days of the week. On Monday he eats an apple, on Tuesday 2 pears.
• Then plums, strawberries, chocolate cake, icecream cone, pickle, and swiss cheese.
• Then salami, a lollipop, piece of cherry pie, a sausage link, a cupcake, and watermelon.
• We enjoyed this book which led to chats about what foods we enjoyed best.
• We made a graph.
• We decided to ask twenty family and friends which of the foods the caterpillar ate they liked best.
• We used graph paper and used numbers 0-20 up the side of the graph and the foods listed along the bottom.
• Then we looked at the graph to see the favorite food and the least favorite (in our case this was the pickle)

• Find pictures beginning with the letter C fom magazines or the internet, mix these with other pictures.
• Have your child draw a caterpillar (or you can)
• Next have your child find pictures beginning with C and stick them on sheet with the caterpillar.

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• Lesson Plan 3
• Buy this buterfly kit from Insect Lore.
• It comes with live caterpillars, a habitat you can hang or sit on a surface, a feeding kit and instructions.
• This is great for seeing the caterpillars become butterflies.
• It takes around tree weeks from delivery for the whole process which is great for kids.
• Your kids could keep a journal of the stages and what they see, get them to draw what they see.
• The kids can take photos and then place them in order in a scrapbook book then write a description.

• Design your own butterfly.
• Let kids look at lots of photos of butterflies.
• Provide egg cartons, colored tissue paper, beads, leaves, grass, dries pasta, paint or crayons, glue.
• Help kids to design a butterfly of their own using what they know about butterfly makeup, habitats, food etc.

• Create the butterfly life cycle with pasta and other bits.
• Provide shaped pasta, leaves, twigs, buttons and cotton wool, paper or cardboard to stick the bits to, glue.
• Have the kids create the life cycle stages on the paper or cardboard by using the pasta shapes and other bits.

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