Butterfly Life Cycle Stages: Journey of a Caterpillar Activities

If you have ever had a caterpillar kit in your room, you know how excited little ones get. These activities help them name and write about every stage.

These butterfly life cycle activities take your pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade students from egg to larva to chrysalis to butterfly. Hang the 2 page poster, practice the words with vocabulary cards, read the mini book together, and then let students write their own book. They are a perfect match for a classroom caterpillar kit, a science center, or a spring unit.

What is in it

• 7 vocabulary cards
• Butterfly life cycle mini book
• Student writing book and writing rubric
• 2 page metamorphosis poster
• File folder game, memory game, and vocabulary puzzle
• KWL chart and can, have, are chart with brainstorming clouds
• Cut and paste and stage labeling pages
• 50 pages total

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Skills it builds

• Butterfly life cycle stages
• Metamorphosis vocabulary
• Nonfiction reading and writing

Where it fits

• Classroom caterpillar kits
• Science centers and small groups
• Spring thematic units
• Pre-K to 2nd grade classrooms

What teachers are saying

It holds 5 stars from 86 ratings.

"This was wonderful to use as we watched our classroom caterpillar transform into a butterfly! Thanks!"

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Egg to butterfly

Pair it with a caterpillar kit and let your students write the story as it happens.

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Made by a teacher who's been right where you are.

Jessica Ann Stanford, Teachers Follow Teachers