Bb Birds & Butterflies
Letter: Bb
Number: 2
Shape: Square
Color: Blue
This packet will allow your child to have fun designing, coloring, painting, and cutting out beautiful birds and butterflies. It has pages of suggested activities that include learning the butterfly life cycle, going bird watching, making a butterfly
wand, toilet paper tube binoculars, bird feeders, bird houses, clothes pin butterflies, footprint and fingerprint butterflies, and more. It contains reproducible patterns and worksheets. It also contains activities for the letter B, number 2, color blue
and square shape.
Most of the activities have patterns included. It is also important that the child and the parent or provider use their imaginations as well. This helps make the projects as individual as the child and is much more fun.
Letter and Number Activities:
Using the provided letter B outline, fill the letter B with dog bone prints. Using small dog biscuits, press the dog biscuits in poster paint and then in the letter B outline.
Have the child count out two identical objects from a bowl of assorted items.
Using the provided number 2 outline, color it blue.
Look through magazines for items that are blue, cut them out and glue them to paper.
Look at a flash card with the number 2.
Find a number 2 in a magazine and cut it out.
Color and Shape Activities:
Cut a large blue square from poster board. Have an assortment of smaller blue items for the child to glue on it.
Cut out several colors and sizes of squares, solid squares, square frames, etc., glue them on a piece of square construction paper. Paste a "big" square "below" a small square.
Color a large blue square on index paper. Cut out the square and punch a hole in the top center of the square. Provide the child with a piece of blue yarn long enough to make a necklace. String it through the hole and tie the ends together for a
necklace.
Physical Activities:
Bounce on 2 feet.
Use a Ball to toss back and forth.
Keep a Balloon from touching the floor by Bobbing it up in the air.
Pass a Ball Back and forth.
Be a butterfly, fly around the yard with your wings flapping gracefully, or a bird with your wings quickly flapping.
Follow a bird in the sky, run in the same direction of the bird, chase some butterflies through the yard.
Hands on Activities:
Make a B Book:
Take 4 or 5 zip lock baggies, reinforce the bottom edges with masking tape. Each bag is a page of the book, punch holes through the masking tape edges and use brads or a stapler to hold the pages together. Reinforce the entire book again with masking
tape to cover the brads or staples. Put a different "B" item inside each page, paper butterflies, pictures of birds from magazines, buttons, birdseed, etc. Now you have a B book.
Binoculars:
Easy version:
Staple two toilet paper rolls together, side by side. Cover one of the tubes with colored saran wrap, tape in place. Cover the tubes with contact paper, construction paper, or wallpaper scraps. Make sure you cover end to end and cover the saran wrap that
overlaps to the sides of the tubes. Punch holes in the opposite ends from the saran wrap and tie a piece of yard through the holes to make the binoculars hang around your neck.
Variation:
Cover the ends of the tubes separately with colored saran wrap (do not staple together yet). Cover the tubes one at a time with construction paper, wallpaper, contact paper, or wind yarn neatly around the tubes until the entire tubes are covered. Hot
glue the tubes together and place a yard necklace as described above. If you need the tubes to be farther apart, hot glue a piece of dowel stick between them.
Bird Watching:
Use your binoculars to go bird and butterfly watching. Stand still or move slowly and quietly. Loud noises frighten birds. Find a comfortable position to observe the birds, sitting very still, laying on your back, etc. Look at the size, color, shape and
listen to noise your bird makes. Look in the trees to see if you can locate a bird nest.
Bird Feeders:
Tie a string to the pointed end of a pinecone to make a hanger, roll the pinecone in peanut butter then roll in bird seed. Be sure to cover entire pinecone, hang in a tree.
Milk Carton Bird Feeder
Use a clean, dry half gallon milk carton. Using scissors, cut openings in two opposite sides of the carton. Cut a small hole one inch below the openings, slide a dowel or twig through the small holes for a perch. Punch a hole through the top edge of the
carton and make a hanger out of a paper clip or string. Fill with bird seed and hang in a tree.
Bread Bird Feeders
Use a piece of stale bread. Have a child cut out a shape with a large cookie cutter. Punch a hole at the top. Thread a piece of string through the hole to make a hanger. Leave out to dry overnight. Spread with peanut butter and press into bird seed. Hang
outside for the birds to enjoy!
Bird Houses:
There are many ways to make bird houses, use the internet to find simple bird house directions, check your local library, create your own design, purchase un-assembled kits, make them from scrap wood.
Bird Nests:
Provide each child with a large shredded wheat biscuit. Have them crumple it into a bowl, add some white glue and mix well, place the mixture on a paper plate and form in the shape of a nest. Add jelly beans for eggs.
Butterfly Wand:
Using the provided butterfly wand pattern, color the butterfly pretty colors. Cut it out and attach it to the end of a dowel stick to make a butterfly wand.
Butterfly Life Cycle:
Using the provided butterfly life cycle sheet, make a butterfly life cycle wheel. Color the wheels, lay the smaller wheel on top of the larger wheel, making sure it is centered. Push a brad through both layers. Turn the upper wheel until the cycle
matches the correct number.
Fingerprint or Footprint Painted Butterfly:
Using the butterfly fingerprint page, cut out the butterflies, have the child make fingerprint designs on the wings by pressing their finger on an ink pad and then on the butterfly - or - if you are brave - cut out a very large butterfly and have the
child step barefoot in poster paint and walk on the butterfly (you may also have them step on the paper, then cut the butterfly out).
Giant Butterflies:
Cut out one or more large butterfly shapes from poster board, have the child paint the butterfly by pressing their hands in paint and then pressing them onto the butterfly. Have the child use different colors of paint. These are very pretty with pastel
colors and with a large group each child can choose their own color and can identify their hand prints by the color they used.
Footprint Butterflies:
On a bright piece of construction paper trace around both feet of the child as he stands with them slightly apart. Cut out the pattern you traced, these become the wings (be sure you don't cut the feet apart) decorate the butterfly and hang them on the
wall.
Pretty Butterflies and Birds:
Cut several birds and butterflies from assorted colors of construction paper about the size of a business card. Have the children use a hole punch to punch several holes in each of them. Glue them to a bright background.
Variation:
Punch the holes in two patterns at a time, glue a piece of bright tissue paper between them, do several, make a mobile.
Stained Glass Butterflies:
Tear colored tissue into different 3" shapes. Using liquid starch, paint tissue pieces onto the wax paper, Add one or two more layers of tissue and allow to dry overnight. Cut the waxed paper into a shape of a butterfly and then slowly peel off the wax
paper. Tape butterflies to the window and let the sun shine through!
Mosaic Butterflies:
Using the Mosaic Butterfly Sheet, cut out the butterfly. Cut several small circles of assorted colors or use assorted circle labels. Apply the circles to the butterfly making sure to overlap the circles.
Clothespin Butterflies:
Cut tissue paper into six inch squares. Using two different colors gather the tissue paper in the center. Glue the tissue paper inside the short end of a spring clothespin or place it tightly near the top of a regular style clothespin. Draw eyes on the
clothespin and add pipe cleaner antennas.
Variation:
Color or paint a coffee filter in place of the tissue paper.
Egg Carton Butterflies:
Cut and the color the egg carton butterflies sheet. Have the child decorate it with bright colors. Cut a cardboard egg carton into a three cup section. Paint the three part section pretty colors and glue it to the middle section of the paper butterfly
for the body. Add pipe cleaners for the antenna.
Song:
Here Is A Square (hold up a cut out square) (tune: Feres Jacques)
Here is a square, here is a square,
How can you tell, how can you tell?
It has four straight sides, all sides are the same size,
It's a square, it's a square.
Fuzzy Caterpillar (tune: Itsy Bitsy Spider)
A fuzzy little caterpillar went up in a tree,
Spun his cocoon and then he went to sleep.
While he was sleeping he dreamt that he could fly,
When he woke up he was a butterfly.
A Hunting We Will Go
A-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go,
We’ll catch a butterfly and put him in a box,
and then we’ll let him go.
Poems:
Child's Song
Oh little bluebird, robin and wren
when will you rent our birdhouse again
I was lonely all winter when you went away
Your song are welcome like the flowers in May.
Little Birdies
I saw some birdies going hop, hop, hop
I said to the birdies stop, stop, stop
Out the window I said how are you today
He shook his little tail and flew far away
Two Little Birds
Two little birdies up on a hill
One was Jack the other was Jill
Fly away jack, fly away Jill
Come back Jack, come back Jill
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Fuzzy wuzzy caterpillar along he slowly creeps
He spins up in a blanket and falls asleep
Fuzzy wuzzy caterpillar wakes up as time goes by
To find he has wings of a butterfly
Field Trip Ideas:
Walk to a local park or local trails, visit an insect house, a wildlife habitat or butterfly museum. Hike through local woods or fields.