Need: 3 Manila File Folders placed one inside of each other (staple down center) to form a book, paper, paints, cardstock, envelope.

Cover: Coloring page http://www.first-school.ws/t/cpbutterfly.html

Pages 1 and 2

We used:

• What do Caterpillars Eat?
• What do Butterflies Eat?
• Defenses
• Caterpillar Butterfly/Moth Venn
• Poems:
  •  To a Butterfly by William Wordsworth
  • The Caterpillar by Christina Rosetti

all from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/butterfly_lapbook.php

• Watch the Butterfly Grow from www.learninghorizons.com
• Butterfly lifecycle from http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag36.html

Pages 3 and 4

After reading Eric Carle’s The Hungry Caterpillar and discussing Collage Art we painted the folder, cut shapes from construction paper to be flowers and stems.

• Favorite Flowers booklet from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/butterfly_lapbook.php
• We printed the My Symmetrical Butterfly from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/butterfly_lapbook.php on cardstock and creased the butterfly down the center, upon unfolding the butterfly and using a much thicker type of paint, painted the body and ½ the butterfly’s wings before carefully refolding the butterfly and pressing firmly. Peel open and let dry, cut-out, and attach to collage.

Pages 5 and 6

Matching game form www.preschoolprintables.com  – the way we played, as he was a bit older, was more of a Memory game.

All the pieces are in the envelope (printed on cardstock and cutout) with the addition of blank cardstock “squares” which we used to cover the butterflies on the folder.  The cutout butterflies were placed face down on the floor and we took turns turning over one butterfly and uncovering one folder butterfly in attempts to acquire a match.

Books We Read:

How to Hide a Butterfly & other Insects by Ruth Heller

Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert

Born to be a Butterfly by Karen Wallace

Know It Alls Butterflies! by Darlene Freeman

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Butterflies Animal World by Donna Baily

Miss Emma’s Wild Garden by Anna Grossnickle Hines

Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing Butterflies & Moths by Jim Arnosky

Butterfly House by Eve Bunting

Diego Saves a Butterfly adapted by Lara Bergen

Additional Links Good at Time of Posting

The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Days of the Week

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/printables/days-week.htm

Pictures to Color

http://www.first-school.ws/t/cpbutterfly2.htm

http://www.first-school.ws/t/cpbutterfly1.htm

Caterpillars and Colors

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/printables/carterpillar-colors.htm

Tons of Templates and stuff for lapbook and video

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/butterfly_lapbook.php

Neat little art appreciation of a butterfly