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and Bugs More butterfly links
Birds,
Bees,
and Butterflies
(Lesson that includes crafts, coloring pages, songs, riddles
& games, and hand shadows)
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Butterfly Pasta
Cook bow tie (butterfly) noodles.
You can add some flavored gelatin to the boiling water or food
coloring.
Another option is to have some flavored gelatin prepared.
Place some cooked bow tie one a small plate. Have the
child paint with a pastry brush his/her butterflies.
Cook one of my noodle recipes located at: main dishes or
dairy-free main dishes recipes.
Butterfly Sandwich
Make a sandwich. Cut it into two or four triangles
(depending how old the child is or how much money you want to
spend if you are a teacher). Place the pointy ends facing
each other. Add one pretzel (or something else) for the
smaller sized sandwich and two pretzels (or something else) for
the larger sandwich.
Butterfly Biscuit
Use a circle cookie or biscuit cutter. Use one of these
recipes: Biscuits
or Dairy-free
Biscuits. Cut it into fourths and place on the
pan. Bake. After they are baked, place it on a plate,
place the pointy ends facing each other and a pretzel stick
(licorice, etc.) in the middle of the wings.
Hot Dog Butterfly Biscuit
Use a circle cookie or biscuit cutter. Use one of these
recipes: Biscuits
or Dairy-free
Biscuits. Cut it into fourths and place on the
pan. Place the pointy ends facing each other.
Place some water on the pointy ends and push them together.
Cut a hot dog (frank) in half. Place it in between the
butterfly wings. Bake according to the biscuit directions.
Sugar Cookie Butterfly #1
Sugar
Cookies or Dairy-free
Sugar Cookies
Use a butterfly cookie cutter and bake according to the
directions. When they are cool, frost
them. Decorate how you would like using chocolate chips,
colored candy or cereal, etc.
Sugar Cookie Butterfly #2
Use a circle cookie. Use the sugar cookie recipe for the
butterfly. Cut it into fourths and place on the pan.
Bake. When they are cool, frost
them (or place colored sugar sprinkles on the cookie dough).
Decorate your butterfly how you would like using chocolate chips,
colored candy or cereal, etc. Place the pointy ends facing
each other. Place licorice, etc. in the middle of the wings.
Butterfly Pasta Craft
Have some uncooked colored bow ties. (Use my colored
pasta craft recipe.) Have the child make a pattern by
gluing them onto a piece of paper. (The child does not have
to make a pattern, just glue it on.)
Rhymes
Butterfly,
butterfly Rhyme
Art
Fun
Twists Butterfly
Butterflies of
the Pine Barrens Pictures of butterflies Monarch Butterfly,
Black Swallow tail butterfly, & others at the different
stages.
Christine's
Wacky
Art Ideas for Insects
Disney.com
- Playhouse - Out Of The Box (Caterpillar) Sing Along
Miss
Curtis and Miss Janssen's Butterfly Web Page
Teachers.Net:
Butterfly Search Results Mother's
Day Butterfly & a Poem, Art Activites, Insects Ideas, and
Much More.
The Butterfly Website
and Caterpillar
to Butterfly Article
Where Do
Butterflies Come From? (and animated stages of the
butterfly)
Math
O.
Orkin Insect Zoo: Butterflies--Lines of Symmetry & Pattern
Worksheet
Thinking
Foundation: Symmetry - Patterns in Nature - Butterflies (A
Butterfly Pattern & More) It has a balancing
butterfly using a penny taped on the back of each butterfly wing.
Music
Preschooleducation.com
(Click on "Music & Songs" and then "Bugs").
Have the children use the craft or coloring page as they sing
the song.
Monarch Butterfly
Coloring
Book
Monarch (butterfly)
At LearningPage.com
you need to become a member. Sign in by clicking on "Become
a Member" and then go to "Theme Sheets" and then "Insects".
Monarch
Butterfly Cutout
Monarch
Butterfly
Pattern
If you would like to find other books, go to: The
Very Hungry Caterpillar
DVD
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Story Bag Ideas
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Spanish: La
Oruga
Muy Hambrienta) / The
Very Hungry Caterpillar Felt Board
Here are some ideas you can make to place in a bag. If you are a teacher, you can have your students make their own story bag.
1. Very Hungry Caterpillar: Felt Board Fun (or Puppets) @ DLTK
2. For Parents, Teachers, and Students:
Very
Hungry Caterpillar: Story Sequencing I colored them and then
laminated them.
3. Use green felt or paper to make a leaf. Sew or glue a
white pom-pom on it to depict a caterpillar's egg.
Another option: Go to PrimaryGames
Egg on a leaf Coloring Page.
4. Printout Activities
Bry-Back
Manor: Butterflies - Circles Cut the life cyles of
the butterfly circles out and glue them onto the butterfly.
Munchinland:
Caterpillar Worksheet
Cut out the objects that begin with the letter "C" and paste them
on the caterpillar.
More activities and coloring pages listed further done on this
page.
5. Caterpillar Activity:
Sew green pom-poms together using thread to make a
caterpillar. You can make a face using a fine tipped felt
pen or leave the face off.
Have the child place the caterpillar into the cocoon (a brown sock
or other color if you don’t have a brown sock or just a small
lunch bag).
Have the child take a butterfly out of the sock (or bag).
6. Butterfly Activity
For Parents, Teachers, and Students:
Butterfly Coming Out of The Pupa (Chrysalis)
A monarch butterfly pupa is green but you can make your "pupa" any
color.
Make a butterfly * or copy the pattern found at Thinking Foundation *. Cut it out on poster board or heavy paper. Hole punch a hole in the top middle part of the butterfly. Place a 6 inch piece of pipe cleaner in the hole (if using a pattern without an antenna) and turn the edges to form a circle. Have each child decorate the butterfly how they want (make sure each side looks like the other side). Take a toilet paper tube to form a pupa (chrysalis). Decorate it. Tape the butterfly onto a craft stick. Curl the wings of the butterfly inside of the pupa (chrysalis) and take it out of the pupa (chrysalis) and let the butterfly fly. Play some soft instrumental music and let the child fly the butterfly while the music plays.
* You can make the butterfly wings by folding a small piece of
paper in half, and draw half a butterfly along the fold line. You
can add the antennas when you cut it out.
* In a instruction
page of their web site, this is a balancing butterfly (using
a penny taped on the back of each butterfly wing).
7. Fingerplay
Caterpillar
There was a little caterpillar crawling all about.
He worked and he worked without a doubt.
(Index finger wiggling)
Wrapping himself in a snug cocoon.
Waiting and waiting, will it be soon?
(Cover index finger with other hand.)
Look, he's coming out, my oh my!
For now he's become a beautiful butterfly.
(Cross thumbs and let fingers be fingers be butterfly
wings.)
Found at: Finger Plays 3: Caterpillar @ Maw Maw Lynn's
8. Art
Egg Carton Caterpillar
Have a row of 6 cardboard egg carton cups cut out already.
Have them cut the sides out to form legs (cut them out for younger
children). Have the child paint the egg carton using green
tempera paint or other type of paint. Make a face out of
paper or paint it if you like, like the caterpillar in the book, "Very Hungry
Caterpillar" or how ever the child wants the caterpillar to
look like. Glue it on the dried caterpillar.
Fingerprint Caterpillar
Have the child put his/her thumb or a finger into green (or other
colors) paint. Place it on paper. Make eyes, nose, and
a mouth with a cotton swap. You can make it like the cover
of Eric Carle's book The Very Hungry
Caterpillar or how ever the child wants the caterpillar to
look like.
9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Snacks (Home Economics)
Make or eat some of the foods in the book.
I would suggest the healthy, inexpensive food items. You can cut
some of these foods into small pieces for each child to sample:
apples, pears, plums, strawberries, orange, watermelon, or cheese.
If you also want an entire snack, make one of the following:
chocolate cake, cherry pie, or cupcakes. (You can use one of
my chocolate cake recipes, cherry pie, or make cupcakes using any
of my cake recipes. Go to: Desserts
or Dairy-free
Desserts for the recipes.
Other Ideas
Talk about the different life cycles to become a Monarch
Butterfly or a Painted
Lady Butterfly.
Go to Zoom Butterflies - Enchanted Learning and find facts, activities, and printouts (butterflies and caterpillars) for all ages of children.
Birds
and Caterpillars at frugal-mom.com
Bry-Back
Manor: Help the Caterpillar Become a Butterfly Maze
Butterfly
Coloring Pages at PrimaryGames.com
Including different stages of a caterpillar.
The
Very
Hungry Caterpillar Unit (K-3) @ Teaching Heart Lessons,
links, printables, and ideas.
Thinking
Foundation:
A Caterpillar Pattern
Butterflies
Carrie
Bruner's Thematic Unit: Eric Carle & The Very Hungry
Caterpillar
Caterpillars
and Butterflies Unit: (including activities, songs, and more)
The purpose of this unit is to enhance the comprehension of The
Very Hungry Caterpillar and to learn the life stages of the
butterfly.
Caterpillar
to Butterfly Week *2care4kids.com*
Has activities for a week that include poems and activities for
different books.
Children's
Butterfly Site Coloring Page of Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle
DLTK-Kids:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Lots of activities and crafts for children ages 2 and up: coloring
pages, and more fun.
Eric Carle
Bulletin Board - Very Hungry Caterpillar
KinderArt:
Egg
Carton Caterpillar - Art and Language (Ages 4-7)
KinderArt:
Very
Hungry Caterpillar - Art and Language (Ages 4-7)
KinderArt:
Caterpillar Tissue Paper Collage - Art and Language Arts (Ages
4-6)
Insects
(including
The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
Some of these I have listed above since they are great.
Lesson
Exchange: Monarch Butterflies (Elementary, Science)
Story
Sack @ about.com
The
Very
Hungry Caterpillar
The
Very Hungry Caterpillar Food Items (Pictures)
unit
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| Online Butterfly and
Caterpillar Activities & Stories Build a Story: Butterfly Build Your Own Caterpillar @ Scholastic Butterfly Subtraction Game Can You Catch The Butterfly - Online Coloring @ Trivia Planet I Wish (Caterpillar) @ kidzclub |
