Butterfly Activities for Preschoolers
This list of butterfly activities for preschoolers will encourage your kids to go on an adventure with you to learn more about nature’s beautiful pollinators.
If you enjoy doing this list of butterfly ideas, here are more fun Butterfly Learning Activities that your kids will surely love.
Get your preschoolers interested in nature and science even more because of butterflies! They are colorful, and pretty, and watching them fly around your beautiful garden can mesmerize your kids!
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Why learn about butterflies?
Preschoolers will enjoy following these amazing creatures around as they learn about these cool insects.
Butterflies spend their life flying around looking for nectars as food and collecting and spreading pollens that helps our plants grow!
Plant flowers that will attract butterflies to your home or go on a nature walk and see what kind of butterflies you can spot in the wild.
Take your kids into this incredible journey of transformation from tiny eggs to beautiful adult insects! It can teach them that we can accomplish wonderful things with patience and perseverance.
Recommended Books About Butterfly
For homeschool moms looking for fun science reading materials for their preschoolers at home, these recommended books are a great way to explore creative and inspiring stories about butterflies with your kids!
Explore My World ButterfliesPinkalicious and the Little ButterflyA Butterfly Is Patient: Nature Books for Kids, Children’s Books Ages 3-5Kitten & Butterfly: A story that helps you teach your child how to be a good friendLittle Ant and the Butterfly (Little Ant Books)National Geographic Readers: Caterpillar to Butterfly
Recommended Butterfly Activity Kits
Check out these butterfly activity kits and enjoy a colorful artsy afternoon with your little one.
Playtime Felts Butterfly Life Cycle Felt Set30 Pack Butterflies Make Your Own Stickersjackinthebox Butterflies Craft kit for 3 to 5WATINC Insect Teaching Felt Board Story SetInsect Lore – Butterfly Growing Kit – Butterfly Habitat KitButterflies Dot Marker Coloring Book for 2-5
Butterfly Activities for Preschoolers
Head over to your garden to observe these beautiful and colorful insects while doing creative butterfly activities with your little science enthusiasts!
Who would have thought you can create butterfly figures out of a plastic spoon? Enjoy this fun crafting activity with your little one!
What's a more fun way of teaching science to your preschooler than merging it with this creative art activity about the butterfly life cycle?
Stimulate your kids' senses with this pretty and colorful butterfly slime activity.
Have leftover pasta at home? Turn them into a science learning experience with your kids with this butterfly life cycle activity.
Bring out the creative imagination of your kids and let them paint the most colorful butterfly they could imagine with this fun activity.
How to Make a Clothespin and Watercolor Monarch Butterfly Craft
The easiest learning activities have the easiest materials needed! Make a watercolor butterfly craft with your young ones using a simple home material— a clothespin!
Your kids will love this butterfly activity as they will discover another unusual art material (that can be easily found at home) they can use to color their butterfly drawings!
Create a busy bag with your little butterfly enthusiast with this cool and fun activity!
Build your kid's creativity and motor skills while having a colorful and artsy experience creating a pom pom caterpillar to butterfly.
This activity has a free printable that your preschooler can use to make a colorful butterfly dot art.
Your kids will love this pretty and colorful butterfly craft using a super simple supply you can find at home. Have your art materials ready for an afternoon full of fun butterfly art activity.
Race with your preschooler to the garden and pick the most pretty flowers you can get and use them for this beautiful butterfly piece of art!
Make the prettiest butterfly puppet with your little one (using a stick) and use them as you re-enact a fun butterfly story with them!
This fun butterfly craft not only teaches your kids creativity but also encourages them to recycle and care for mother nature!
Colorful art materials are not just limited to paints and crayons anymore! Enjoy this butterfly art craft with your preschooler using a very common material at home— tissue paper!
With these butterfly activities, kids learn about science, physical coordination, arts and more! These are perfect for preschoolers who want to learn more about butterflies. Butterfly fans will enjoy any one of these ideas.
More Butterfly Activities
Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet
Find the Letter: B is for Butterflies by 3 Boys and a Dog
B is for Butterfly: Letter of the Week Preschool Craft by Crystal and Co.