This Butterfly Life Cycle Craft is the perfect Homeschooling Lesson! My girls love creating crafts and learning hands-on. This is the perfect science activity that preschoolers will love.
Butterfly Life Cycle Craft | Homeschooling Lesson
One of our favorite things to do during the Spring as I mentioned in our last butterfly craft post was going to the Farmers Market and bringing home live caterpillars. There is no better way for a child to learn about something than to see it grow and change right in front of them. So, to go on with our Butterfly Cycle Unit we made a butterfly life cycle craft.
Materials Needed
- White construction paper
- Markers and crayons
- Green and brown construction paper (for leaves and branches)
- Buttons
- Pom Poms
- Craft glue and scissors
- Label your white piece of construction paper with the Butterfly Life Cycle. I divide each cycle into a box so it’s easier to understand.
- In the first box labeled “egg” have your child create their caterpillar larvae egg on a leaf. Using green construction paper cut out a green leaf and glue a button to represent the egg.
- On the second box on the right labeled “caterpillar” have your child glue on pom poms to create a caterpillar. They can even use some markers or crayons to draw some grass or branches.
- On the third box labeled “chrysalis” have your child create and glue down some branches and a caterpillar chrysalis using construction paper.
On the last box of the Life Cycle, your child can draw or create their own butterfly using construction papers and pom poms. My girls love to draw, so they wanted to draw their own butterflies.
At the end of your craft have a fun book ready to read about butterflies!
Caterpillar Stage
Chrysalis Stage
We are waiting for them to hatch from their Chrysalis. It will be any day now. The girls are so excited!
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You made this activity seem so simple yet so interesting! Will definitely try it out with my daughter. Reminded me of a similar life cycle of a plant write-up but that was in the form of a worksheet ( http://www.jumpstart.com/common/life-cycle-of-a-plant-view ).. However, I feel that if an activity gives hands-on experience to a child, he/she learns more from it than by just reading about it. By the way,did your caterpillars finally hatch out from their chrysalis? 🙂 In how many days?