Butterfly Activity Pack 3

Description

Engage your preschool and kindergarten students in hands-on learning with this fun Butterfly Activity Pack. Both color and black and white formats are included, where possible, to suit your individual printing needs.

What’s included in this Butterfly Activity Pack?

Literacy Activities Include:

• Alphabet Hunt: Students look for the target letter on these activity mats and cover the match when they find it.
• Butterfly Prepositions: Students choose a positional card and place the butterfly in the correct position on the activity mat.
• Alphabet/Beginning Sound Match: Print and laminate these cards then students match the letter basket to the beginning sound picture butterfly.

Math Activities Include:

• Butterfly Patterns: Use pom poms or other colored manipulatives to copy the patterns on the butterfly wings.
• Catching Butterflies: Students select a card and add the same number of butterfly tokens to the container activity mat.
• Number Puzzles: Students match the correct pieces including numerals, number words, tens frames and tallies.
• One More, One Less: These caterpillar themed task cards focus on one more or one less than numbers 1 to 10.
• Swat the Butterfly: Students match the collection card to the colorful butterfly themed number card. Also includes a worksheet for students to track and trace each number as they make a match.
• Number Mats: These engaging mats ask students to count, read, write, and recognise different representations of numbers 1 to 10.
• Playdough Mats: Use these task cards to build different butterflies out of playdough. 
• Shape Matching Jars: Students match the different shaped butterflies to the correct jars.
• Symmetry Matching Puzzles: These beautiful matching puzzles feature a range of colorful butterflies.

Fine Motor Activities include:

• Tissue Paper Butterfly: Students tear and/or scrunch pieces of tissue or colored paper and stick it to this butterfly template.
• Butterfly Pre-Writing Cards: Laminate these butterfly task cards and students can trace the lines with dry erase markers.
• Butterfly Craft: Students follow the instruction page to cut and fix the pieces to create a cute butterfly. Color and black and white formats included.
• Finish Me Off: Laminate these task cards and students use dry erase markers to complete each butterfly picture.
• Color Clip Cards: Students use pegs to clip the correct color to match each butterfly.
• Butterfly Emotions: Use these cards for different activities including making the facial expressions for each emotion using playdough. Also includes words to trace and an activity mat template.

Worksheets

• Including line tracing, coloring, I Spy Shapes, symmetry matching, color by code, graphing, a maze, missing numbers, alphabet match and more.

This Butterfly Activity Pack is perfect for the following learning settings:

⭐ As part of your morning work while learning about insects.

⭐ As a literacy, math, or fine motor center activity while learning about minibeasts.

⭐ With small groups of students with a specific focus, e.g. symmetry or representations of numbers 1 to 10.

How to prepare these Butterfly Activities?

✂️ Simply print and laminate each component, if desired. 

✂️ Both color and black and white formats are included where possible to suit your individual printing needs.

Suggested materials:

✏️ Pencils/Coloring materials

✏️ Scissors

✏️ Glue

✏️ Pom poms or other colored manipulatives

✏️ Tissue paper or colored paper

✏️ Pegs

✏️ Play dough

✏️ Dry erase markers