Life Cycle of a Butterfly with FREE Printable Worksheets

As part of our homeschool science we observed the butterfly life cycle. I even put together a butterfly life cycle worksheet to teach preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders about this amazing metamorphoses that takes place. This is a wonderful life cycle science experiment is a must to witness in person as your child records their observations in a butterfly observation journal! Simply print pdf file with life cycle of a butterfly worksheet and you are ready to play and learn about butterflies for kids.

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We had SO much fun observing our caterpillars turn into butterflies in our butterfly science unit! I found myself checking their progress many times a day too! While watching the amazing metamorphosis of the butterfly life cycle happen is the best part, teaching kids to use a butterfly printable make observations, record data, make hypothesis and keep a science journal is a fanstastic extension to this kindergarten science. Use our life cycle of a butterfly worksheet pack to make this butterfly hatching for kids extra educational!

Whether you are a parent, teacher, homeschooler, daycare, grandparent, or preschool – you will love this simple and fun life cycle of a butterfly printables for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 studdents. Use it at home, in the classroom, or as a supplement to your homeschool science curriculum. THis is an expecially great life cycle of a butterfly for kindergarten project or life cycle of a butterfly preschool.

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life cycle of a butterfly worksheet

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The butterfly life cycle printable pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

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All you need to complete this life cycle science project is:

• butterfly garden kit – we received 5 caterpillars in a container with holes poked in the top and a gel covering the bottom that nourished them along with a mesh butterfly enclosure to keep the butterflies in once they’ve hatched
• butterfly journal pdf (free printable at the bottom of the post)
• pen, pencil, or markers to record findings

butterfly observation journal

Day 1 – The caterpillars arrived and are in the larva stage. They are 3/4″ long and moving around inside the cup.

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Day #4 – Still in the larva stage but the caterpillars have been eating the food in the container they were shipped in and are now 1 1/2″ long. There are lots of little balls of poop on the bottom – EW!

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Day #7 – Still in the Larva Stage. The caterpillars have all moved to the lid of teh cup and are hanging upside down. They look like little leaves of fish hooks up there.

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Day #8 – Some of the caterpillars have finished spinning their cocoons and have antered the Pupa stage.

Once all the butterflies are in a cocoon we opend the lid carefully and moved the white paper they were attached to and clipped it inside the butterfly net so we could watch and wait for them to become butterflies. All along we recorded what we observed in our free printable life cycle of a butterfly.

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We moved the caterpillars to our butterfly garden in preparation for their hatching. Minnie loved to watch them and see if they were butterflies yet. On Day #12 two of the five caterpillars started shaking and we thought they were hatching…. but not yet!

Watching our newly hatched butterflies!

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Day#14 -Butterflies at last! We noticed the red liquid (a result from the color on their wings) and waited excitedly for the remainder of the caterpillars to hatch.

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We are enjoying watching the butterflies flapping around inside their garden. We put a sliced orange in for the butterflies to drink. Did you know butterflies don’t actually eat, they just drink through their straw like sucker.

We know we need to release the butteflies out side soon….

My favorite site for getting information and showing my kids pictures was The Children’s Butterfly Site.

life cycle of a butterfly printable

I made the {free} Hatching Butterflies Observation Notebook to go along with our Butterfly Unit. It has information on the butterfly lifecycle, facts about butterflies, and space for your child to write observations and/or pictures along your scientific process. I hope this is helpful to other Preschool and Homeschooling families.

There is space for children to write down what day it is, what stage the butterfly is in it’s lifecyle and record any observations they can make.  The book also includes an illustration of a butterfly life cycle for kids to look at.

free life cycle of a butterfly worksheet

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