Butterfly Preschool Lesson Plan
Enjoy this preschool lesson plan all about butterflies. The activities below will introduce children to butterflies through fun facts, activities, books, songs, and crafts. This lesson plan works well in conjunction with a daycare center unit with a theme about insects and bugs.
Learning about Butterflies
Basic facts about butterflies:
The life cycle of a butterfly goes from egg to caterpillar to pupa/chrysalis to butterfly
A butterfly has six jointed legs, 3 body parts (head, thorax, abdomen), 2 antennae, eyes, and an exoskeleton.
Butterflies taste with their feet and sense with tiny sensory hairs.
Caterpillars eat leaves and help to pollinate plants
Butterfly Craft
Tissue paper Butterflies
Materials: Tissue paper in various colors, black pipe cleaners, scissors
Instructions: Cut the corners off of the tissue paper squares. Encourage each child to bunch the tissue paper in the middle and then wrap and twist the pipe cleaner together. The pipe cleaner then becomes the antennae. Allow each child to create several. Decorate windows with them or create butterfly mobiles.
Butterfly Math/Manipulation Activity
Cut out butterflies from construction paper from felt in three colors or three different sizes. Encourage children to arrange/sort the butterflies on the felt board by color or size.
Butterfly Finger Play
“Butterfly”
Sing “Butterfly” to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”. Encourage children to hook their thumbs together and wiggle their fingers to look like a butterfly
“Flutter, flutter butterfly
Floating in the springtime sky
Floating by for all to see
Floating by so merrily
Flutter, flutter, butterfly
Floating in the springtime sky”.
*”Butterfly” taken from indianchild.com.
Books about Butterflies
My Oh My: All about Butterflies by Trish Rabe, Aristides Ruiz, and Joe Mathieu [Random House, 2007]
From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heiligman and Bari Weissman [Collins, 1996]
Are you a Butterfly? by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries [Kingfisher, 2003]
Goodnight Sweet Butterflies by Dawn Bentley, Melanie Gerth, and Heather Calhoon [Little Simon, 2007]
Where Butterflies Grow by Joanne Ryder and Lyne Cherry [Puffin, 1996]
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