As part of our study on butterflies, I created this Butterfly Printable Pack for kids in preschool and kindergarten. We ordered two butterfly chrysalises from The Bug Shop as well as a butterfly house. After 7 days the first butterfly emerged. After a bit of research, it looks like a Leopard Lacewing Butterfly. Here is a link which contains some great images and videos on these butterflies.
After a few days of watching our chrysalises, one of them started to hatch.
It was a lovely sight, watching a beautiful butterfly emerging for it’s chrysalis.
It took the butterfly around 5 hours (from when we first saw it starting to emerges) of hanging onto its chrysalis, getting ready to fly. Little drops of blood dropped off onto the bottom of the cage.
Then it started walking around the cage, slowly flapping its wings. We got out our old video camera and the boys took turns at recording the butterfly. When we purchased the kit, it came with instructions. It said that you can’t keep the butterfly too long as it needs food, so when it had been walking and flying around for a while, we decided it was time to let it go.
We took the cage outside and took the lid off. At first he didn’t want to leave, but finally, he flew out of the cage. When he did, he took off so fast I couldn’t get any photos. We had a tall 6 foot high colourbond fence that he quickly flew over.
The second chrysalis is still hanging there. It did not open. I contacted the place we purchased them from and they said it was dead, so they are sending a replacement.
While we were waiting for the butterfly to emerge, we completed this Butterfly Printable Pack. It is aimed at kids in preschool and kindergarten.
Materials Needed
- white paper
- printer
- laminator
- colouring pencils
- scissors
- lead pencils
- eraser
This huge 184 page Butterfly Printable Pack is aimed at kids in preschool and kindergarten. it includes:
- flashcards
- word search
- story cards
- handwriting practice
- shadow matching
- size sequencing cards
- odd one one activities
- counting activities
- colouring activities
- dot marker activities
- tic tac toe
- dominoes
- adding
- spelling
- graphing
- shapes activities
- puzzles
- more or less activities
- I spy
- 3 part cards
- alphabet cards
- flip book
- read, write, stamp
- sentence writing
- alphabetical order
- what comes next
- butterfly playdough mat
- colour by number
- lacing cards
- how many syllables?
- butterfly lifecycle cards and posters
- butterfly anatomy
- butterfly and caterpillar observation charts
- butterfly colour book
- butterfly lifecycle book
More Butterfly Resources
To grab your copy of this Butterfly Printable Pack for kids in preschool and kindergarten, click on the link below: {There is both a colour and a black and white version of the printable pack}
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