Free Life Cycle of a Butterfly Pack For Tot, Preschool, Prek and Kindergarten

We have been studying a lot about butterflies at our house. They are tons of fun to study.

I thought it would be time to pull out all the parts from the Bug Pack and add more to it to make it’s own Life Cycle of a Butterfly Pack.

This free Life Cycle of a Butterfly Pack is great for tot, preschool, prek and kindergarten. It also have print and cursive options.

The Free Life Cycle of a Butterfly Pack is an excellent addition to the bug printables and free printable packs on the site.

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Pack

This pack is full of fun learning about the butterfly life cycle. You will find puzzles, worksheets, hands-on activities and more. This pack is great for tot (ages 2 to 3), preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5) and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).

For those with older kids I have added a few cursive activities to this set. This gives the older kids a chance to do something with the younger kids as well. I like it when my girls can do things together. There is also a Life Cycle of Butterfly Journal for kids to record their findings.

Books to read with the Life Cycle of a Butterfly Pack

These Life Cycle of a Butterfly printables were made to go with the book Monarch Butterfly and Safari Ltd Life Cycle of a Monarch Butterfly.

We plan on doing some matching with the pack and Safari Ltd Life Cycle of a Monarch Butterfly.

Things to use with the Life Cycle of a Butterfly Printable

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• printer
• white copy paper
• white cardstock
• laminator
• laminating pouches
• dry erase laminating pouches
• pencil
• pencil grip
• crayons
• markers
• dot markers
• sheet protectors
• dry erase markers

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Pack Printables

You are going to see information about the different parts of the packs. And learn a little bit about the monarch butterfly life cycle. A great spring learning theme for kids.

Butterfly Life Cycle Vocab Cards

You have different vocab cards. You have eggs, caterpillar, chrysalis, monarch, painted lady and swallowtail. It has the life cycle words and the three different butterflies.

Butterfly Life Cycle 3 Part Cards

You have a set of 3 part cards in the learning pack. You have all the same words as the vocab cards for kids to match the picture and word to the vocab card.

Blank Vocab Cards

There is a set of blank vocab cards in the set. This lets you use the Safari Ltd Life Cycle of a Monarch Butterfly to match the figures to the words. A great hands-on learning activity for kids.

Another great activity for this page would be to make an edible butterfly life cycle.

Butterfly Which One Is Different Worksheet

You have butterfly worksheet where kids pick out what is different on each row. You can have a different direction, missing colors, or complete different.

There are five pictures on each row for kids search and find the different one. You can use glass gems on these page to reuse it with several kids in a learning center. Or just circle what is different.

Butterfly What Comes Next? Worksheet

You have a patter worksheet with AB and ABC patterns. Kids will cut out the pictures at the bottom and the paste them to finish the pattern on the page.

Butterfly Prewriting Practice Worksheet

You have two different prewriting pages. You have a page with simple beginner prewriting lines and then a page with more complex lines for kids to trace. You can use a pencil and a pencil grip to help kids who struggle with handwriting.

Butterfly Pattern Cards Printables

The butterfly pattern cards have a caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly. These are great for building your own AB and ABC patterns for kids. You have give them a pattern that is already started and have kids finish the pattern with the cards. You can do simple or complex patterns.

You can do what works best for your kids. And it is best to print two sets of these cards to have extra and laminate them to last longer.

Butterfly Matching Cards

You have a set of matching cards. There are 12 different matching cards and these have pictures and words for the pictures in fun font and colors. You are going to want to print this set of cards twice to make a fun hands-on matching activity.

Butterfly 4 Piece Puzzles

You have 6 butterfly themed four piece puzzles. These are great to give kids who are working on matching simple puzzles but are doing puzzles beyond two piece puzzles.

These are great to laminate and use over and over in learning centers. Plus you have the butterfly life cycle in the puzzles as well.

2 Butterfly 10 Piece Puzzles

You have two 10 piece puzzles. One puzzle is the life cycle of a butterfly. And the section puzzle is a picture of a monarch butterfly. But puzzle have numbers from 1 to 10.

Butterfly Color by Size

You have a simple color by size worksheet for kids. You have large medium and small butterflies on the page. Kids will recognize the size of the butterfly and use the correct color to color the butterfly. A great way to work on seeing the differences in the size of things.

Butterfly Color the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

You have a very simple live cycle coloring page. This is great when you are learning about the life cycle and you are coloring each part. You can also use these butterfly life cycle worksheet with this activity.

Butterfly Roll & Count

You have Butterfly roll and count activity. You have a 6 sides dice with a 1 to 5 and 1 to 10 graphing page. Kids will roll the die and then graph each roll. They will roll until one column reaches the top.

Butterfly Roll & Tally

You have a tally activity that using the same die from the roll and count. But this time you roll and make tally marks for each roll. You can give them a set number and rolls they should do and then count and see which one had more at the end.

Butterfly Count and Graph

You have a butterfly count and graph worksheet. You have pictures at the top and kids will count and then match the graph at the bottom for the pictures. You have the life cycle of a butterfly for the pictures. You have a graph version and a trace number version. Both work great for graphing with kids.

Label the Life Cycle of the Butterfly

You have a label the butterfly like cycle. You have a cut and paste with pictures or use the butterfly matching cards or the Safari Ltd Life Cycle of a Monarch Butterfly and put the life cycle in order.

Find the Letter B

You have a letter b letter find for kids. You have a mix of uppercase B and lowercase b for kids to find mixed in with other letters. A great letter be worksheet for kids. This works great with crayons to color the letters or dot markers to dot the letters.

Trace the Letter B, C & E Print

You have letter tracing pages for kids. You have uppercase only, lowercase only and both tougher on the third line. You have b for butterfly, c for caterpillar, e is for eggs. These a great for handwriting for kids.

Trace the Letter B, C & E Cursive

You have a cursive letter tracing pages for kids. These are like the print version but with cursive for the tracing and the word on the page. These are great for kids working on cursive.

Butterfly Beginning Sound Clip Cards

You have beginning sound clip cards for each part of the life cycle of the butterfly. You have uppercase letters for to clips. You can use clothespin or paperclips for the clipping.

Butterfly Pocket Chart Cards Print

You have a set of pocket chart cards with print words for the life cycle of a butterfly. These are great for displaying the words. You can print these on cardstock and display them.

Butterfly Pocket Chart Cards Cursive

You also have a set of vocab cards in cursive. It has the butterfly life cycle words in a cursive font for older kids to see cursive words.

Trace Beginning Sound Print: Life Cycle of a Butterfly

You have a set of tracing strips for the life cycle of the butterfly. You work on tracing the beginning sound of each word. A great letter handwriting activity. You can print these on cardstock and laminate. Then you can use dry erase markers to trace the letters.

Trace Beginning Sound Cursive: Life Cycle of a Butterfly

You have a set of cursive letter tracing that matches the print version. You can prepare these the same way and use them for cursive handwriting practice.

Trace the Word Print: Life Cycle of a Butterfly

You have a picture of the butterfly life cycle word on the left and then the word to trace on the right. You can prepare these as you do the other tracing strips. You can then work on writing the words.

Trace the Word Cursive: Life Cycle of a Butterfly

And again there is a cursive version for older kids to work on cursive words. Kids will have fun tracing the life cycle words while practicing cursive.

Write the Butterfly Life Cycle Words

You have a set of butterfly life cycle stirps that has the picture on the left and the guideline for kids to write letters or names in print or cursive. You can prepare these are you have other tracing strips on the series.

Butterfly Size Sequencing

You have a monarch butterfly size sequencing activity. you have 5 different sizes of butterflies on the page to cut out and use. You can use smallest to biggest, Biggest to smallest. Another fun idea is to compare to butterflies and ask which is small or which is bigger.

Butterfly Size Sorting: Small, Medium & Large

You have a butterfly size sorting page. You have three different sizes of butterflies. You have small, medium and large. You have a sorting mat and then three different butterflies for kids to use in the sorting. A fun hands-on idea for kids working on differences of size. And this also works great with the color by size page as well.

Butterfly Life Cycle Write a Sentence

You have a set of pages where you can write about each part of the life cycle of a butterfly. You have eggs, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly, and monarch butterfly. Kids can write about each part of the life cycle on pages with guidelines to help with writing.

Butterfly Letter Trace & Color

You have a fun letter trace and color page. You have an uppercase and lowercase letter on each page to color. Then you have a simple sentence on the page that talks about the letter that kids can trace.

You have the following sentences:
E is for Eggs.
C is for caterpillar.
C is for chrysalis.
B is for butterfly.

Ordinal Numbers for The Butterfly Life Cycle

You have a each part of the butterfly life cycle with the order they go with ordinal numbers, picture of the life cycle and life cycle word for kids to match and put in order.

Butterfly Life Cycle Journal

You have a butterfly life cycle journal that you can use with kids. You have a copy page and then a journal page that you can use. it left you check off what part of the life cycle, write the date, what number day it is, draw the life cycle you see and write about what you saw.

A fun journal that different ages of kids can use.

Butterfly Egg Color the Pattern

You have color the pattern page. This has four different AB and ABC patterns for kids to see the pattern and then color the eggs and leaves to match the pattern.

Butterfly Fill in the Missing Pattern

You have a simple fill in the missing pattern. You have three patterns on the page and kids will match the correct picture fill in the missing picture for the pattern. There are two pictures missing on each pattern.

Small Book – Butterfly

You have a small folding 8 page book about butterflies. You have the butterfly life cycle and three different butterflies in the books.

You have a tracing book and just a coloring book. I have directions on the how to make the small books.

Compare the Butterflies Writing

You have a venn diagram writing page comparing two different butterflies for what is similar and different about them. This is a fun writing activity you can do with words.

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Tot Pack Printables

You are going to see information on the life cycle of a butterfly tot and preschool pack.

Butterfly Solid Line Prewriting

You have butterfly prewriting lines with a solid line on the page. You have 3 lines on each page to trace. These have a very thick solid line for kids to trace. A great way to start prewriting for tot and preschool age kids.

Butterfly Dashed Line Prewriting

You have the same prewriting lines as the solid but this time you have thinner lines for kids to trace. You have it going from eggs to butterfly on the page.

Butterfly Which One is Different

You have a very simple which one is different. You have three pictures in each row and one is clearly different form the other version. Kids will circle or place an item on the picture that is different in each row.

Butterfly 2 Piece Puzzles

You have six different two piece puzzles. You have the same pictures of the butterfly form the pack. Kids can work on matching the pictures that are the same.

Color the Butterfly by Color Book

You have a simple color book where kids color each butterfly on the page a different color. You have a simple sentence on each page for the colors. There are 11 color words in the book.

Butterfly Matching Cards

You have a set of butterfly matching cards. You have the picture cards and the matching words as well. This allows for a fun matching activity. You can start with just the pictures and then add the words in as well. It is a great way to work on what is the same with pictures and words, even if they don’t know the words.

Butterfly 9 Piece Puzzles

You have two nine piece puzzles. You have a version with a monarch butterfly and then a color picture of a different butterfly.

You can print two copies of the puzzles have kids match the same pictures, or challenge an older child to match the 9 piece puzzle.

Butterfly Match Page

You have a simple butterfly life cycle matching page. You are to draw a line to match the picture that is the same on the other side. You can see how simple of a worksheet this is. And helps with the life cycle again.

Butterfly Roll & Count

You have a butterfly roll and count with numbers from 1 to 5. You have a six sided die for kids to roll and then a worksheet to graph the rolls. They can roll until one number reaches the top or until all of them reach the top.

You can use button for graphing as a hands-on activity or use a dot marker for the graphing.

Butterfly Shape Tracing

You have two butterfly shape tracing pages. You have 9 different shapes to trace on the page. You have circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, pentagon, hexagon, and heart. You have a solid line version and a dashed lined version to use with kids. You can use which works best for your kids.

You can give kids a pencil with a pencil grip for those just starting out with tracing.

Butterfly Lacing Cards

You have three different lacing cards. You have a swallowtail, painted lady and a monarch butterfly. You have small circle to punch out and then have kids use yarn or another item to lace the card. You can use the butterfly that works best for your age of student.

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Pack contains over 70 pages:

(Part 1)Butterfly Life Cycle Vocab Cards, Butterfly 3 Part Cards, Butterfly Which One Is Different, Butterfly What Comes Next?, Butterfly Prewriting Practice, Butterfly Pattern Cards, Butterfly Matching Cards, Butterfly 4 Piece Puzzles, 2 Butterfly 10 Piece Puzzles, Butterfly Color by Size, Butterfly Color the Life Cycle of a Butterfly, Butterfly Roll & Count, Butterfly Roll & tally, Butterfly Count and Graph, Label the Life Cycle of the Butterfly, Find the Letter B, Trace the Letter B, C & E Print, Trace the Letter B, C & E Cursive,

(Part 2) Butterfly Beginning Sound Clip Cards, Butterfly Pocket Chart Cards Print, Butterfly Pocket Chart Cards Cursive, Trace Beginning Sound Print, Trace Beginning Sound Cursive, Trace the Word Print, Trace the Word Cursive, Write the Word, Butterfly Size Sequencing, Butterfly Size Sorting, Write a Sentence, Trace & Color, Place order for Butterfly Life Cycle, Butterfly Life Cycle Journal,

(Part 3) Butterfly Egg Color the pattern, Butterfly Fill in the Missing Pattern, Small Book – Butterfly, Compare the Butterflies Writing

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Tot Pack contains 32 pages:

Butterfly Solid Line Prewriting, Butterfly Dashed Line Prewriting, Butterfly Which One is Different, Butterfly 2 Piece Puzzles, Color the Butterfly by Color Book, Butterfly Matching Cards, Butterfly 9 Piece Puzzles, Butterfly Match Page, Butterfly Roll & Count , Butterfly Shape Tracing, Butterfly Lacing Cards

Check out these other Butterfly Activities

Butterfly No-Prep Weekly Packs are another set of no-prep weekly packs that are great for spring and summer. You have butterfly life cycle activities, with a mix of math and language. You have six grade levels pre, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.

Romping & Roaring B Pack has a b is for butterfly letter pack. You can work on tracing, finding, and dotting the letter with the letter B and butterfly theme. This is part of the Romping & Roaring ABC Packs.

Butterfly Activities Pack for Prewriting, Shape, ABCs & Numbers. It has no-prep pages, easy reader books, clip cards and tracing strip for kids to learn with. Plus the butterfly theme is great for spring.

Sequencing: Life Cycle of a Butterfly has butterfly life cycle easy reader books, butterfly life cycle clip cards, butterfly life cycle writing pages, butterfly life cycle cut & paste, and butterfly life cycle no-prep worksheets. The butterfly life cycle printable works for kids in prek, kindergarten and first grade.

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