Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet for Kids
This worksheet introduces children ages 3-5 to the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle — egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly — by having them number the pictures in the correct sequence. Understanding a life cycle as an ordered sequence of changes is an early but genuine science skill, building the sequencing and cause-and-effect thinking children need for later scientific reasoning.
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Month 9: Multi-Subject Early Learning | Ages 6-7
This is page 29 of the pack. Ages 6-7 · Grade 1Ages 6-7 · Year 2Ages 6-7 · Class 1Ages 6-7
Curriculum
- Living Things - Insects > Insect Life Cycles
How to use this worksheet
Look at the pictures of each life cycle stage together and talk through what's happening at each one — first the tiny egg, then the caterpillar eating leaves, then the still chrysalis, and finally the butterfly emerging. Have your child number the pictures in the correct order based on this sequence. Once the life cycle is numbered, move to the shapes section and have them circle the shapes found within the box.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- 1Draw your own four-panel butterfly life cycle, one stage per box, and describe what's happening in each.
- 2Read a picture book about caterpillars and butterflies together to reinforce the sequence with a story.
- 3Act out each life cycle stage with your body — curling up as an egg, wiggling as a caterpillar, staying still as a chrysalis, and flying as a butterfly.
- 4Look up a photo of a real chrysalis or caterpillar together and talk about what you notice.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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