Filling Your Classroom with Butterflies
Fingerprint Life Cycle
Grades pre K-6 Activity = Science, Language Arts, Arts





Use your own fingers and thumbs to create the four different stages in the butterfly's life cycle.

Materials Needed: Inked stamp pads or water soluble paint (various colors); Paper; Crayons; Markers; Fingers!

1. Press fingertips/ thumbprints on a stamp pad and then on paper to create the life cycle of a butterfly.

Egg on a leaf; Caterpillars crawling around; Chrysalis hanging from a twig; Butterflies all around!

2. Use markers or crayons to add details, transforming your prints into illustrations.

Unit 4

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