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Lifecycles - The Butterfly & The Plant

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Butterflies & Caterpillars ~ Seeds to Blooms ...

  This eBook is an invaluable resource for demonstrating how two lifecycles progress.

  With novel crafting projects that give the children a hands crafting experience that they'll remember ...  !

Take a look inside and discover the magic of change....

             The Butterfly
 Leaves
Craft - Forage with your children in advance of this craft and find leaves and natural resources that are then used to create a habitat collage for butterflies. 
Activity Sheet -
Which leaf?

 Eggs
Craft - Pop up puppet craft that uses green collage materials and rice. 
Activity Sheet - Eggs on a leaf.

 Caterpillar
Craft - Using a caterpillar template and block stampers wound with wool, Children are inspired to create patterns and designs with coloured paints. 
Activity Sheet -
Dotty caterpillar

 Chrysalis
Craft - This craft looks at how the caterpillar turns ‘IN’ to a chrysalis and how a butterfly comes ‘OUT ’with templates and collage materials. Story telling the sequence would bring this craft to life.                                            
Activity Sheet -
Wrap the cocoon.

 Butterfly
Craft - Assembling the butterfly parts to make a model and then paint and glue the decorations to it.                              Activity Sheet -
Butterfly shapes

             The Plant
 Seed
Craft - Plant a seed in a pot, colour in the pot surround and add the growing stick. Activity Sheet -
Lifecycle sequencing.

 Thirsty Plants
Craft - Painting with watering can stampers! A highly original idea that clearly shows how plants need water to survive.                                            Activity Sheet -
What is needed to grow?

 Worm's germinating seeds
Craft - This craft results in a model toy that the children can play with and demonstrate how the root and stem both develop.
Activity Sheet -
Roots & Leaves.

 Seedling Leaves
Craft - Designing and scissor control to make leaves for a growing plant. 
Activity Sheet -
 Grow seedlings. 

 Flower
Craft - Using the template and bee paint stamper game play is used to show how a bee is attracted to the centre of a flower. 
Activity Sheet -
up and up.














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