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Free Butterfly Life Cycle Activities

Explore how butterflies change and grow when you download these FREE butterfly life cycle activities for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade!

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Butterfly Life Cycle Freebie

Teach your Preschool and Kindergarten students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! These interactive spring activities are the perfect way to explore how butterflies change and grow!

Teach your Preschool and Kindergarten students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! These interactive spring activities are the perfect way to explore how butterflies change and grow!

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From Caterpillar to Butterfly Books

We always read a number of picture books about the butterfly life cycle, but one of my favorites is From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heiligman. This story begins with a classroom of students excited for their new addition… a caterpillar. As we read through the story, we can see each stage in the life cycle.

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This particular story explains the metamorphosis process in simple terms, so that our little learners are able to grasp this incredible concept. Plus, it’s the perfect read while you are waiting for your own caterpillars to metamorphosize.

Teach your Preschool and Kindergarten students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! These interactive spring activities are the perfect way to explore how butterflies change and grow!

Flutter, Flutter Butterfly Poem

After reading the story, we learn a poem all about the life cycle of a butterfly. The students make up hand motions for each line of the poem. Then, they place their poem inside their “I Can Read Poetry Binders” so that they can practice the poem at home with their parents.

Each day we complete a new activity with the poem. These are the same activities that the students will complete at home with their parents.

On Fridays, we always complete an extension activity to go along with the poem of the week. For this particular poem, we make a butterfly craft using beans and various shapes of pasta to represent each stage.

Learning all about butterflies is always a favorite spring life cycle activity for preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade students! This interactive butterfly life cycle craft is perfect for reviewing the stages of the life cycle of a butterfly. Use pasta with the butterfly life cycle printable to help solidify their learning about how butterflies change and grow. Add this butterfly life cycle activity to your spring craft ideas for kids!

This is such a simple way to help solidify our life cycle vocabulary. Plus, it serves as a great visual representation of each stage in the butterfly life cycle!

Butterfly Life Cycle Freebie

During the week, we practice ordering the life cycle with these mix and fix pocket chart sentences.

Teach your Preschool and Kindergarten students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! These interactive spring activities are the perfect way to explore how butterflies change and grow!

Then, the students create their own sequence strip by stacking the pictures in order.

Teach your Preschool and Kindergarten students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! These interactive spring activities are the perfect way to explore how butterflies change and grow!

Once they have correctly sequenced the pictures, they practice reading the strip.  The students are always so excited to flip through the life cycle stages as they read!

If you’d like to give these “sequence strips” a try in your classroom, download them for FREE at the bottom of this post!

Teach your Preschool and Kindergarten students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! These interactive spring activities are the perfect way to explore how butterflies change and grow!

Butterfly Life Cycle Video

My kiddos also enjoy this adorable cartoon all about the life cycle.

More Butterfly Life Cycle Activities

Find the full butterfly poem and craft in this post.

Learning all about butterflies is always a favorite spring life cycle activity for preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade students! This interactive butterfly life cycle craft is perfect for reviewing the stages of the life cycle of a butterfly. Use pasta with the butterfly life cycle printable to help solidify their learning about how butterflies change and grow. Add this butterfly life cycle activity to your spring craft ideas for kids!

More Spring Activities

If you’re looking for more springtime science fun, don’t forget to check out this post all about the water cycle or this post all about our Rain Jar Experiment.

Don’t forget to also check out these posts filled with tons of engaging rain activities for your classroom, including this Raindrop poem.

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Teach your Kindergarten and primary students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! They are the perfect way to bring a little science into your spring activities!Teach your Kindergarten and primary students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! They are the perfect way to bring a little science into your spring activities!Teach your Kindergarten and primary students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! They are the perfect way to bring a little science into your spring activities!

Teach your Kindergarten and primary students all about the life cycle of a butterfly with this butterfly life cycle poem, butterfly craft and FREE butterfly life cycle sequence strips! They are the perfect way to bring a little science into your spring activities!

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27 responses to “Butterfly Life Cycle Freebie”

  1. Katie Knight Avatar
    Katie Knight

    Just darling!

  2. Easy Teaching Tools Avatar
    Easy Teaching Tools

    Your activities look amazing, I'm sure your students love them!

  3. Kelli Avatar
    Kelli

    So many cute ideas in one spot!! I love that pasta craft- so clever!

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  5. Desiree Avatar
    Desiree

    Hi! Is there a place a can print out your butterfly image that you put the pasta on? Super cute!!!!

    1. Ashley Avatar
      Ashley

      Hi, Desiree! You can find the butterfly life cycle craft here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/I-Can-Read-Poetry-Binder-May-1850626

  6. Traci Ward Avatar
    Traci Ward

    Hi! I used this in my classroom and I love it. I was wondering if you still had the frog life cycle too? I used it in my classroom as well but lost the master copy of the head of the frog. :/ Thanks for sharing all of your amazing ideas and work.

    1. Ashley Avatar
      1. Leticia Zarzoza Avatar
        Leticia Zarzoza

        How can I purchase your butterfly (butterfly cycle) ? I would love my students to make it.

  7. Alison Avatar
    Alison

    Where is the freebie? I don’t see it. Cute ideas, thank you.

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  9. Angela Avatar
    Angela

    It says the butterfly life cycle is free, but I can’t get it to come up with the template to print.
    It jumps to the $8.00 option no matter where I click.

  10. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    Thanks for the little booklet/sentence strip activity. My class is going to like it.

  11. Curly Avatar
    Curly

    Can’t wait to do this activity with my students

  12. Meghan Reinholt Avatar
    Meghan Reinholt

    Looks like so much fun!

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  15. alfreda jackson Avatar
    alfreda jackson

    Amazing activities!

  16. Me Avatar
    Me

    I was looking for the free Butterfly life cycle freebie Please send me the download for it. Thank you!

  17. Andrea Smith Avatar
    Andrea Smith

    love the butterfly life cycle

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  19. Judith Avatar
    Judith

    I’m looking for the free life cycle butterfly craft. Is it no longer available?

  20. karina Avatar
    karina

    hello, where can I find the butterfly freebie
    sentences? When I click on the picture it asks for direct access.

  21. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    Hello! The top of this article says Butterfly Life Cycle Freebie, but I only see the poetry pack, which is $8. Is the craftivity with the pasta no longer free? I’ve used it in the past and have lost my originals!

  22. Shelley Dustin McCullough Avatar
    Shelley Dustin McCullough

    I am trying to download this activity however it is giving me request google access. Help.

  23. Kristin Avatar
    Kristin

    Hi!
    I teach pre-k and I would love to have your Butterfly sequence strips! However, when I click on the photo it takes me to google drive and denies my access. Please help! Thank you!!! 🙂

  24. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    Hi,

    I am trying to access the freebie but it says that I need access?