Lesson Intentions: This kit will provide your child/student hand-on activities to understand and learn about the parts of a butterfly and metamorphosis. This kit will help build your child’s/student’s vocabulary awareness and visual discrimination.

Kit Includes: Illustrated lesson plan with three different activities (11 pages including worksheets); “Caterpillar to Butterfly,” by Laura Marsh, story book; laminated five-part butterfly matching cards; laminated butterfly sequence cards (egg, caterpillar, jay, chrysalis, and mature butterfly); full size laminated painted lady butterfly picture; 3 copies of “parts of a butterfly” worksheets (1 color and 2 black and white to color, you are allowed to make extra copies of these); 4 “parts of a butterfly” mini color sheets (for your child/student to make their own “parts of” booklets); painted lady butterfly color page; an animal report template; a pencil sharpener; and color pencils. Optional purchase: sequence objects.

Live caterpillars can be ordered at Earths Birthday Project.