Ready to teach your little ones all about the butterfly life cycle? These life cycle of a butterfly worksheets are printable and easy to use as helpers!
With Spring season upon, once you go outside and spot some butterflies, you can take it even further and learn about the butterfly life cycle and label their body parts as well with these science worksheets. Isn’t Science great?
The caterpillars creep me out but my kids love bugs and it’s a great way for them to explore nature. Besides, I love watching them grow educationally and run around trying to stay with the butterflies as they’re flapping their wings!
Talking points that you can discuss with your kids are where the eggs are laid, and then how they turn into a larva and then a pupa before they become a butterfly. Pictures and videos are a great way to show kids how different the caterpillars and butterflies look. These life cycle of a butterfly worksheets will take you through each stage.
I then created parts of a butterfly worksheet as well to learn about the antennae, thorax, abdomen, legs, forewings, and hindwings.
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Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet
Enjoy Mother Nature and education with these printable worksheets! They’re so fun you can literally use them again and again if you laminate them. (that way you can wipe off the answers and start over!)
And now we have tons more fun printable kindergarten worksheets to share.
We do this unit study several times throughout Spring and Summer because it’s fun to see the different varieties of butterflies that are out and about.
Stages of a Butterfly Life Cycle
Egg
The female butterfly lays eggs on the leaves of plants. This leaf provides food for the larva or caterpillar when it emerges from the egg.
Larva
The larva or caterpillar’s job is to eat as much as it can to grow. Monarch caterpillars grow 100 times their size in a only a few weeks.
Pupa
When the caterpillar is done feeding, it will make a chrysalis. Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar will go through a metamorphosis, or a change, to become a butterfly.
Adult butterfly
The butterfly emerges from the cocoon, in an entirely new form. It’s wings are wet and it may take several hours to dry. The adult butterfly’s purpose is to mate and lay eggs to begin the life cycle over again.
Depending on the butterfly species, some butterflies do not feed at all while a few will drink nectar from plants.
Recommended Life Cycle of a Butterfly Books
Get to know how they grow from an egg to a caterpillar and then into a gorgeous butterfly with one of these fun life cycle of butterfly books for kids. Any time you can add reading to your educational curriculum, it takes on a whole new form!
The Life Cycles of Butterflies: From Egg to Maturity, a Visual Guide to 23 Common Garden Butterflies
The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies (Look and Wonder)A Butterfly’s Life Cycle (Explore Life Cycles)From Caterpillar to Butterfly: Following the Life Cycle (Amazing Science: Life Cycles)To Catch a Butterfly- A Butterfly’s Life Cycle
Recommended Butterfly Toys
Show your kids what the different life stages of a butterfly look like with these cute butterfly life cycle kits and toys.
Grow your own butterflies to see them transform from caterpillars to butterflies.
Safari Ltd Life Cycle of a Monarch ButterflyButterfly Learning Toy – 4 Piece Set Shows Metamorphasis Of A ButterflyWooden 5 Layers Butterfly Life Cycle Puzzle for ToddlersInsect Lore Butterfly Growing Kit – With Voucher to Redeem Caterpillars LaterInsect Lore Deluxe Butterfly Garden with 2 Live Cups of Caterpillars & Feeding Kit
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More Butterfly Activities
If you want to pull your own butterfly unit study together, go ahead and check out these other amazing bloggers and see what they’ve created.
Find the Letter B is for Butterflies from 3 Boys and a Dog
Butterfly Life Cycle for Kids (Free Printables) from The Natural Homeschool
Easy Kid Craft: Colorful Spring Butterfly Suncatcher from Crafty Mama in ME
Butterfly Science from Schooling a Monkey
Butterfly Books for Children from The Jenny Evolution
How to Meet a Butterfly from Bambini Travel
Butterfly Sensory Bin with Scavenger Hunt and Life Cycle Activities {Free Printables} from Living Montessori Now
Butterfly I Spy Game from Simple Fun for Kids
Preschool Butterfly Songs from Preschool Powol Packets
Butterfly Symmetry Paintings from Artsy Momma
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