This exciting roundup of butterfly activities uses everyday craft materials for creative hands-on learning. Butterfly crafts are fun to make at home or in the classroom during the spring and summer.
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This exciting roundup includes everything you need to plan a butterfly theme for your early learning program.
The list features activities from kid-friendly bloggers I know and love. The activities are filled with colors and textures to promote imagination and creativity, and engage early learning skills like fine motor and sensory.
Enjoy some of the best butterfly ideas we could find to help you extend learning through play with your preschooler!
Butterfly activities for preschool
These butterfly crafts for preschoolers come in all shapes and sizes, using everyday craft supplies and recycled materials in fun and unique ways.
You’ll find crafts, games and even a life cycle activity.
Butterfly Crafts
Make a Foam Cup Butterfly with a recyclable. / i Heart Crafty Things
Use an everyday craft item to make Woven Craft Stick Butterflies / The Craft Train
Place a pretty Butterfly Suncatcher in a window. / Crafty Mama in ME
Reuse an item from the sewing basket to make a Lace Butterfly / Preschool Toolkit
Kids will love making a Handprint Butterfly / No Time for Flash Cards
Butterfly Art Activities
A kitchen item can be used to make a Cupcake Liner Butterfly / Raising Little Superheroes
A sensory painting activity is easy to provide with this Sponge Painted Butterfly / The Resourceful Mama
Explore the spring season with an Easy Spring Butterfly Craft / Books and Giggles
Butterfly Games
Get moving outside with a Butterfly Catch activitiy. / Left Brain Craft Brain
Combine counting and gross motor fun with this Butterflies and Flowers Number Line / Mom Inspired Life
Explore the alphabet with this ABC Matching Game using butterfly cut-outs. / The Letters of Literacy
Make a butterfly Memory Game with jar lids. / Teach Me Mommy
Butterfly Life Cycle Activities
Rotate images inside a Life Cycle Cup to discover an emerging butterfly. / Teaching Mama
Extend life cycle activities in a Sensory Bin . / Pre-K Pages
Make a Craft Necklace to explore the life cycle of a butterfly. / Fun-A-Day
Illustrate the life cycle with a Paper Plate / Buggy and Buddy
