Are you planning a butterfly unit study? Let’s Explore Butterflies will be a great addition! Kids will be able to record their research about over 40 different butterflies on a special notebooking page for each butterfly featuring photographs!

Butterflies are beautiful and fascinating. While preparing this resource I learned so much. Did you know that the smallest butterfly is about the size of a fingernail? Did you know that there are six different families of butterflies and over 17,500 species worldwide?

INTEREST IN BUTTERFLIES?

In our homeschool, I have always loved simple and direct learning that is curiosity-based and not filled with busy work. I don’t print worksheets just to have something for my kids to do. If I print it, it’s for a reason. When I create new printables, I always keep this goal in mind and keep things as simple as possible. The lesson that you develop as a homeschooler will be filled with more than just what you’ll find here. I assume you are here on my blog, visiting this post because your child is interested in learning about butterflies and maybe you searched online to find resources for creating a butterfly unit study. If your child has a high interest, you can expand this butterfly-themed unit for weeks with tons of butterfly crafts, butterfly activities, butterfly games, butterfly books, and butterfly learning fun! Hopefully, this butterfly resource will give you a great place to begin!

BUTTERFLY BOOKS

You’ll definitely need to check out some books about butterflies from the library or buy some from Amazon to add to your kids’ book collection. I have created an extensive list featuring books about butterflies that your child can learn from. 

If you’re feeling super sweet, grab some butterfly toys so your child has little butterflies to explore with!

BUTTERFLY SENSORY PLAY

Feeling SUPER sweet, create an butterfly-themed sensory bin, even older kids get into these!

A few I found online:

• Butterfly Sensory Bin from Natural Beach Living
• Butterfly Sensory Play from Little Bins for Little Hands
• Butterfly Sensory Bin from Living Montessori Now

LET’S EXPLORE BUTTERFLIES

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

Let’s Explore Butterflies includes a cover page in case you’d like to create a notebook {either using a binder with an option to insert a cover or by binding the pages with a binding machine}.

INFORMATION SHEETS

In addition to the butterfly books you add to this study, you’ll find a few printables included to add to your child’s research. I created these pages to insert at the beginning of your notebook as simple reference guides,

• Interesting Facts About Butterflies
• Butterfly Classification
• Butterfly Life Cycle

Butterfly Family PHOTO COLLAGES

Six different photo collages for you to print and display during your butterfly unit.

• Hesperiidae {Skippers} 
• Lycaenidae {Blues & Hairstreaks}
• Nymphalidae {Brush Footed}
• Papilionidae {Swallowtail} 
• Pieridae {Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows} 
• Riodinidae {Metalmarks}

Butterfly NOTEBOOKING PAGES

The core of this printable unit study is the individual pages for each butterfly. You’ll find 46 different pages each featuring the following:

• Name of butterfly
• Latin name of butterfly
• photographs of butterfly
• Recording lines for your child to write in the family, location and interesting facts.

46 BUTTERFLIES INCLUDED

1. Arctic Skipper
2. Large Skipper
3. Peck’s Skipper
4. Grizzled Skipper
5. Long-Tailed Skipper
6. Green Hairstreak
7. Atala
8. American Copper
9. Adonis Blue
10. Silver-studded Blue
11. Gulf Fritillary
12. Hackberry Emperor
13. White Tiger
14. Monarch 
15. Zebra Longwing 
16. Paper Kite
17. Common Buckeye
18. Blue Pansy
19. Viceroy 
20. Red-spotted Purple
21. Blue Morpho
22. White Morpho
23. Mourning Cloak 
24. Question Mark 
25. Jewelled Newab
26. Great Spangled Fritillary
27. Red Admiral 
28. Painted Lady 
29. Pipevine Swallowtail
30. Veined Jay
31. Common Rose
32. Giant Swallowtail 
33. Tiger Swallowtail
34. Two-tailed Swallowtail
35. Black Swallowtail 
36. Zebra Swallowtail 
37. Orange Tip
38. Orange Sulphur 
39. Dappled White
40. Cloudless Sulphur 
41. Cabbage White 
42. Duke of Burgundy
43. Blue Metalmark
44. Red-bordered Pixie
45. Banner Metalmark
46. Punchinello

More Butterfly Fun…

HOW DO I GET LET’S EXPLORE BUTTERFLIES?

If you will be planning a butterfly unit study, I recommend grabbing our Busy Family Bundle featuring butterflies! You’ll find Let’s Explore Butterflies and all of our butterfly content in one ad-free webpage with simple download buttons. This is a major time-saver for busy families and helps you plan a unit study without wasting your valuable time searching online.

Many of the butterfly products included in the bundle are exclusive to the bundle and not available anywhere else on my site. Products that are released on my site or in my shop are linked individually below.

Butterfly Busy Family Bundle Includes:

• Let’s Explore Butterflies {this post}
• Butterfly 3 Part Cards
• Butterfly Peek & Find
• Butterfly PowerPoint Show
• Butterfly Calendar Connections Cards
• Butterfly Life Cycle & Anatomy
• Spreadsheet (with all of my butterfly research)
• Photo Flashcards {bundle exclusive}
• Butterfly Tracing Fun {bundle exclusive}
• Butterfly Dot-to-Dot {bundle exclusive}
• Butterfly Book List
• & EVERYTHING I create featuring butterflies in the future!

Yup, if I create a new butterfly printable, I will add it to the private webpage!

Just want the Let’s Explore Butterflies Unit Study?

You can buy this in my shop here, and also download a free sample below!

FREEBIE

I have a special free sample for all of you!