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Butterfly with Beads

10/19/2013

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Encourage children to practice their motor skills by putting beads onto pipe cleaners. Let them color/paint a clothespin, add eyes, and antennae. Help each child put together their butterfly.
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Butterflies

10/19/2013

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Stained-Glass Butterflies

Materials:
  • wax paper
  • scissors
  • tissue paper (assorted colors)
  • glue
  • paintbrush
  • string
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Instructions:
  1. Cut small squares of tissue paper.
  2. Cut a butterfly pattern out of wax paper.
  3. Paint a small area of the pattern with glue. Apply the tissue paper squares until the glue is covered.
  4. Continue gluing on squares of tissue paper until the pattern is covered. Allow the glue to dry, then glue a second layer of tissue paper squares on top of the first layer.
  5. After the glue has dried, carefully lift the tissue paper butterfly from the wax paper. Trim the edges of the butterfly’s wings to make them more rounded.
  6. Attach a string to hang the stained glass butterfly from the ceiling or a curtain rod
Lacy Butterflies

Materials:
  • lace remnants
  • scissors
  • white thread
  • pipe cleaners

Instructions:

  1. Make two butterflies by cutting two rectangles that are different sizes from the lace remnants. Round the corners of the rectangles.
  2. To form each butterfly’s wings, pinch and use thread to tightly tie the center of each lace rectangle.
  3. Bend a pipe cleaner over each piece of thread and shape it to look like an antennae for each butterfly.

Optional: Use markers, glitter, or sequins, to decorate your butterflies

More ideas for butterflies:

Butterfly Crafts For Kids by No Time For Flash Cards
Butterfly Goodie Bag by Crafty-Crafted.com
Colorful Handprint Butterfly by Handprint and Footprint ART
Coffee Filter Butterfly by My Kids Make….
Flutter by, Butterfly! by Spark and All
Yarn Butterflies Spring Craft by GummyLump.com

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Let's Make a Butterfly Book!

10/19/2013

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Literacy Project

Read:  “Where Butterflies Grow” by Joanne Ryder and Lynne Cherry
 
Let’s write a butterfly story.
Color the butterfly as you turn the pages.
 
Materials needed:
  • 1 piece construction paper
  • 3 to 4 pieces of white paper
  • crayons or markers
  • scissors
  • stapler
  • pen
Directions:
Staple all pieces together along the middle seam. Fold in half so that it opens like a book. 
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When you turn the pages it should show a full butterfly shape. Color the butterfly as you turn the pages.
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Have the children tell you about their picture, and write it down at the bottom.
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Butterfly Handprints

10/18/2013

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Hand Print Butterfly Craft

Here is what you'll need:  Pipe cleaners, paint (I used finger paint), craft sticks, glue, construction paper, and paint brushes for painting hands.

1.  Have your child pick out 2 colors and paint both hands the same color.

2.  Put hands paint side down on the paper at an angle (so they resemble butterfly wings).

3.  Wash hands and paint them both the other color.

4.  Turn paper around and place hands again paint side down at the same angle...overlapping the     other hand print a little bit.

5.  Glue the craft stick in the middle of the hand prints.

6.  Cut the pipe cleaners in half and make into a "V" shape and glue onto the craft stick.

7.  Let dry and hang up!

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Chasing Butterflies!

10/18/2013

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This activity will get children moving as they chase butterflies!
 
Read: Butterfly Colors and Counting by Jerry Pallotta and Shennen Bersan 

Materials needed:
  • bug net
  • small pretend butterflies
  • pipe cleaners
  • paper
  • crayons
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First we catch them!
Attach each butterfly to a pipe cleaner. The butterfly at one end, attached to the butterfly at the other end. Arrange them so that it looks like the butterflies are flying just out of reach of the net. Let the children play with this inside and outside. Make several so everyone can play. They can actually catch the wiggly butterflies.

Remember to take pictures!

Have the children draw a picture about chasing butterflies. As they draw, write down their story. Display stories, pictures of children catching butterflies, the butterfly net and butterflies on the bulletin board.
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Butterfly Wind Catcher

10/18/2013

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Draw out the different shapes and assist the children in cutting them out.  Have the children identify the different shapes as they cut them out.
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Butterfly Literacy and Math

10/18/2013

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This craft helps children with both literacy and math. Cut a pair of wings from construction paper and on one side write letters that are symmetrical (we used A,M,Y,W,T,H,I,O,V,U). Have the children trace the letters with paint then fold the butterfly in half. Show them that the letters are the same on both sides, and that butterflies wings are the same on both sides, or symmetrical. Have them experiment with different letters to see which ones are symmetrical and which ones are not.
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  • Appropriate for 1yr and up. Logic and Reasoning, The Big Orange Splot (Paperback)
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Butterfly Baby Footprints

10/17/2013

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The Butterfly is a very logical creature, both wings are exactly the same!
Here is a Butterfly project Mom’s and Dad’s will love!

 
Butterfly Baby Footprints!
Materials needed:
  • baby feet 
  • construction paper
  • camera and printer 
  • water based paint
  • plate
  • towel



Directions: 
Place the baby in a high chair so she isn't so wiggly and to make it easier to collect the foot print.
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Instructions:
 prepare the paint in the plate (you want to cover the plate). You can add a little soft soap for easy clean-up.



Gently press baby’s foot
 in the paint.
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Then on to the precut butterfly. Do it quickly to avoid smearing.

Immediately wash the baby’s feetwith a warm cloth.
After the picture is dry, put a picture of the baby where the head of the butterfly would be.

Write the baby’s name and date on the bottom.

For something special: Buy or make a nice frame for the picture.
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Beautiful Butterflies

10/17/2013

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Spring is the perfect time for exploration. After reading a book about butterflies have the children create their very own butterflies which you can add to a paper plate or a different material to create butterfly mobiles to hang around the class. This project can be done with any type of material.
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Fun fact: The world’s largest Butterfly is called the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly, while the smallest is called the Western Pygmy Blue.

Appropriate for 4’s and up.  Science (life cycles) My, Oh My--A Butterfly! All About Butterflies (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) Tish Rabe(Author), Aristides Ruiz (Illustrator), Joe Mathieu(Illustrator
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Butterfly Wall Game

10/16/2013

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Let’s Play a Butterfly Wall game! Here is a game you can put up on the wall.
                          Easy as  a,b,c


 
   
Rhyme:
 Let’s All Be a Butterfly  by Debbie Hasbrook M.Ed.
 
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Read:  “Monarch Butterfly” by Gail Gibbons

  Butterfly Alphabet Wall
Game


  Materials needed:
  • butterflies
  • poster board 
  • markers
  • Velcro circles
  • laminate or construction paper.
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Directions:
 Attach to the poster board a
butterfly with each letter of the alphabet. On another set of butterflies write the alphabet. Affix one side of the Velcro sticker to the butterfly, and the other to the matching butterfly.



Place all of the loose butterflies in a butterfly net. Let the children pick a letter
and place it on the corresponding letter on the poster board
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Phonics: As the children place their butterfly on the corresponding letter have the children tell you what the sound is. Teach them the sound if they do not know what it is. Have the children think of other things that begin with the same sound.
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