Butterfly Op Art

You can get a printable and directions from:

Danielle's Place of Crafts and Activities

On one side the students can see a caterpillar, they fold it for the chrysalis and then on the other side they can see the butterfly.

 

 

 

Butterfly Life Cycle Snazzy Snack

 

 

The students made an edible version of the butterfly life cycle. We used the Educreations app to label it. I found the butterfly at our local party store. I used candy pieces so they could put the head, thorax and abdomen on and then the wings.

 

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/kennedy/27306545/?s=NEMLd9&ref=appemail

 

 

 

 

Warm and Cool Butterflies

 

This is my sample:

 

The students traced a butterfly 4 times and then went over it with a sharpie. They designed the inside with the sharpie and then made vertical lines with a ruler. They water colored every other  line with warm and cool colors. Click  HERE to see this wonderful idea on Clippings from the Studio Floor.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Pop Up Book

Here is the outside of the card. The green side is the front. The brown side is the chrysalis in the back.

It opens and the butterfly pops out on the inside.

You can leave the inside white and add a poem or note or you can paint a background.

My sister found this cute butterfly saying:

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.

Start by folding a piece of construction paper in half. Add pieces of green tissue paper to the right side. and brown strips of paper to the left side. Fold it back in half and cut out the leaf shape. Add the caterpillar...it's just 1x3 inch strips, of paper made into circle.

Trace one side of the butterfly on a piece of folded white construction paper.

When it's opened it should look like this from the inside.

Put a piece of paper under the butterfly and paint it, color it or whatever you want to do to the butterfly. I added small pieces of tissue paper, but that adds another step of trimming the edges.

When it's dry push the butterfly to the inside and glue the butterfly paper to the inside of the leaf shape.

Trim the edges and you're done.

Leaf Pattern

Here they are in our hall with our Eric Carle Display.

Butterfly Pattern

Butterfly Life Cycle

We went outside and rubbed our leaf on different things to create texture (mine was on the playground equipment). We used pasta and rice to represent the different stages of the butterfly life cycle.

Click HERE for a Life Cycle printable from Making Learning Fun.

The Butterfly song

(to the tune of "Up on the Housetop")

First comes a butterfly and lays an egg,

Out comes a caterpillar with many legs,

Oh see the caterpillar spin and spin,

A little chrysalis to sleep in.

Oh, oh ,oh wait and see

oh oh oh wait and see

Out of the chrysalis,my oh my

out comes a pretty butterfly.

Butterfly Life Cycle Cards

3D Butterfly from DLTK

Butterfly Symmetry