Live butterfly-let children release after story time if season is appropriate
Dried butterflies (found, not killed!)
Straw (to explain what a proboscis is--natural history)
Butterfly weed or butterfly bush flowers (purple ones would match Kipper's story below)
Openers:
The More We Get Together
I Wiggle
Optional: Talk about natural history of butterflies (colors/wings/antennae/proboscis/migration)
Carle's classic follows the stages of a caterpillar's life as he eats his way through a week.
(bring out purple butterfly bush flowers)
Butterfly (Mick Inkpen) 2-4Kipper finds a great way to catch a butterfly! 3-4
I Wiggle
Optional: Talk about natural history of butterflies (colors/wings/antennae/proboscis/migration)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle) 2-4
Carle's classic follows the stages of a caterpillar's life as he eats his way through a week. Wiggler: Bumpin' Up and Down (in my little cute chrysalis)
Felt Board: The Very Hungry Caterpillar sequencing activity
Butterfly (Mick Inkpen) 2-4
Fingerplay: A Caterpillar Crawled
Wiggler: Walking Walking
Wiggler: Walking Walking
Butterfly Butterfly: a Book of Colors (Peter Horacek) 2-4
Looking for her butterfly friend, Lucy discovers other colorful friends in her garden. There's a colorful surprise on the last page!
Wiggler: This is the Way We Blow Our Balloon
Wiggler: This is the Way We Blow Our Balloon
Felt Board: Beautiful Butterfly Big and Bright
Closer: Wave Goodbye Poem
Take Home: Butterfly coloring page
More Books!
Closer: Wave Goodbye Poem
Take Home: Butterfly coloring page
More Books!
Waiting for Wings (Lois Ehlert): 2-4
Bob and Otto (Breul) 2-4
The Caterpillar and the Polliwog (Jack Kent) 2-4
In the Tall, Tall Grass (Denise Flemming) 2-4
Caterpillars Wish (Murphy) 2-4
Clara Caterpillar (Edwards) 3-5
Arabella Miller's Tiny Caterpillar (Jarrett) 4+
Butterfly Suits/Little Einsteins (Kelman) 4+
Hurry and the Monarch: 4+Marigold's Wings (Vlasta van Kampen): 4+
The Butterfly Garden (Minarick) 4+
Next Week: Market Day
Next Week: Market Day
