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Butterfly, Butterfly, Fly, Fly Away

May 16, 2011 by Maureen Spell 11 Comments

After watching a recent episode of Barney, my girls and I were inspired (yes, Barney inspired us—lol) to do some butterfly-related crafts and activities.

butterflypoem

We sang Butterfly, Butterfly, Fly, Fly Away (which we heard on Barney) many times this week. If you don’t know the tune, it makes a great counting poem too. (Click the photo to download.)

butterflybook

Next we printed out and made our own Butterfly Life Cycle book. This was a download from The Montessori Print-Shop.

butterflycards

The Montessori Print Shop also has Butterfly Life Cycle cards, which I printed and laminated. We looked at the pictures and went over the terminology. Then we put them in order. We also practiced ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.) I appreciate that these materials used real photographs of the butterfly stages. The materials printed nicely and are a wonderful nature resource.

butterflypuzzle

For a twist, I printed another set of the Butterfly Life Cycle cards—one in grey-scale and the other in color. I mounted the grey-scale cards onto cardstock. I laminated and then cut the colored cards so that they would be individual puzzles. The grey-scale cards were the control cards to help my toddler figure out the puzzles. She would match the colored pieces and place them onto the control cards.

butterflycraft2

We made our annual coffee-filter butterflies 🙂 My 4yr. old is getting good at carefully dipping the edges of the filter into the food coloring water.

butterflycraft

My 4yr. old picked the funky fuzzy pipe cleaners—the ones that kind of look like giant caterpillars.  You could use half of one pipe cleaner to make the caterpillar (just glue wiggle eyes on it) and the other half to fold over the tie-dyed coffee filter.

BbhandwritingWe also reviewed our Letter Bb’s with this butterfly handwriting sheet/poem (click to download.)

For more butterfly craft, poem and games ideas check out:

Disclosure: I was given a free download from Montessori Print Shop for review purposes only. Opinions are my own. The way I used the cards are Montessori-influenced but not necessarily the official Montessori method.

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  1. Valerie says

    May 16, 2011 at 2:04 am

    I love the greyscale idea, that is super!

    😛 Valerie

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  2. Ktribe says

    May 16, 2011 at 11:45 am

    So cute!

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  3. Michelle says

    May 16, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Fun! and I might add that your Squidoo lens is awesome! Love those caterpillar magnets!

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  4. JDaniel4's Mom says

    May 16, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    I love your butterflies and caterpillars.

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  5. Jackie H. says

    May 16, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    I definitely know that song… and from Barney! I think my son would like these activities to go along with it!

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  6. Deb Chitwood says

    May 17, 2011 at 1:26 am

    Awesome butterfly unit! I love the Montessori Print Shop butterfly life cycle materials, and your ideas here and on your Squidoo lens are wonderful! Great idea to make control cards in greyscale, too. 🙂 Deb @ LivingMontessoriNow.com

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  7. Lori says

    May 17, 2011 at 7:46 pm

    We LOVE studying the butterfly lifecycle in our home too. I love all the activities you planned to correlate with the Montessori Print Shop cards. It looks like you guys had lots of fun. 🙂

    Lori @ Montessori MOMents

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  8. Lori says

    May 20, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Such a great activity! I would love those butterfly wings for the kids, just like on Barney! LOL

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  9. Deb Chitwood says

    May 23, 2011 at 7:38 am

    I featured your post today at http://livingmontessorinow.com/2011/05/23/activity-of-the-week-life-cycle-of-a-butterfly/

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  10. Elle Belles Bows says

    June 4, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    Thanks for sharing the download. I love everything that you did for this activity!

    I am a follower. but have been a bit of a blog slacker lately. I actually found the link from The Work Plan. So, I wanted you to know that you are getting some extra blog love there too! I am glad they linked there or I would have missed the download!

    Thanks again!

    Kerri

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  11. Deb @ Living Montessori Now says

    May 17, 2012 at 8:42 am

    I enjoyed re-visiting your post! I featured your life cycle of a butterfly photo in my Montessori-Inspired Caterpillar-Butterfly Unit at http://livingmontessorinow.com/2012/05/17/montessori-inspired-caterpillar-butterfly-unit/

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