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Butterfly and Caterpillar Preschool and Kindergarten Crafts, Activities, Lessons, and Printables
Butterflies are not only beautiful creatures, they are important to the earth's ecosystem. Often unnoticed, they play an important role in maintaining the balance of nature and health of the living world. They pollinate wild plants and our crops, and they are a valuable source of food for songbirds. This month your children will have fun learning about caterpilllars and butterflies with the preschool and kindergarten crafts, activities, games, lessons, and resources that we have created and gathered together.
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Free Butterfly and Bugs 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.
Flower Garden Art Project
Paint a blue sky and some brown soil on white craft paper. Draw and cut a stem and leaves out of green craft paper. Draw and cut different sizes and shapes of flowers out of colored craft paper. Glue stem and leaves on paper. Add a small amount of glue to the center of the largest flower shape and glue it on top of the stem. Repeat with a smaller flower shape and glue on top of bigger flower shape. Add a small pompom or crumbled tissue paper roll to the center of the flower. After glue is dry shape the flower to look three dimensional.
Butterfly and Caterpillar Rhymes:
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 unknow)
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.
Butterfly Match
Have children create several different colored butterflies. Cut them in half. Let children match the butterfly halves.
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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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.
Other Great Preschool and Kindergarten Butterfly and Ladybug Activities and Links:
Pictures of the Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Eric Carle's Official Site