butterfly life cycle

You might have seen this great idea

from Somewhat Simple floating around Pinterest...

 

 

We read, Butterfly House, as part of our

reading series and it's a great story

to introduce students to the life cycle

of butterflies!

It's such a cute story that fits very well into

the unit theme of kindness.

Anyway, my coworkers and I wanted to 

do this activity, but here in Kansas,

all the leaves are crunchy and brown

and we'd make a crusty mess trying

to glue them down.

So, I decided to make a template to glue

on the paper plate that the kids could color.

Then we glued the pasta on top of each picture. 

You can click on the picture to download the template:)

 

I still like Somewhat Simple's best with the real

leaves and twig, but since we are forced expected to

read this story in the fall,

ours will have to do!

 

I think they turned out cute!