Preschool butterfly math

🦋 FREE Printable Butterfly Number Sense Activities for Preschoolers

ByBeth Gorden

Toddler, preschool, prek, and kindergarten age kids will love this fun, and free Butterfly Number Match Activity. Kids will have fun strengthening counting skills and fine motor skills with the butterfly activity for preschoolers. This number sense activity focuses on the value and representation of numbers 1 to 10. Simply print pdf file with butterfly printable and you are ready to play and learn with this preschool butterfly activities.

Number Sense Activities

Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this number sense activity for your next butterfly theme! This butterfly math activity allows toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners to work on number sense to 10 while strengthening their fine motor skills. This numbers 1-12 activity has children build butterflies by adding the correct decorations to the butterfly mats. As children number match, they will be working on preschool number sense. Use these spring worksheets for preschool as extra practice, at school or at home, summer learning, butterfly or math activity or as part of an extra activity for those who finish their other work early.

Butterfly Printable

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> ____ <<. The number sense activities for preschoolers pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

Number Match

At the bottom of the post you will find the pdf print file. Print off all the pages. There is one page with two butterflies on it and two pages with the number dots on them. The page with the two butterflies will need to be cut in half and can be laminated for durability. The number dots will need to be cut out and can also be colored in and laminated if you wish.

Preschool Butterfly Activities

Try try this butterfly math start by choosing one of the 2 butterfly templates included: green / yellow / orange or purple / blue. Now place all the number dots into a pile for them to sort through.

After choosing a number from 1 through 12, children will search through the number pile searching for the four number dots that match the number that they are looking for. There will be one with the number word, one with the number and a child, the number in tally marks and the number in a ten frame.

The butterflies are in color but the number dots are in black and white for children to decorate if they wish. This makes it a fun reusable spring math to add to your spring math centers for kids.

Butterfly Activities for Kids

Looking for more fun butterfly activities, butterfly crafts, and butterfly printables to add to your day or butterfly theme? Try these:

Butterfly Math – addition mats for pre-k and kindergarteners

Number Sense butterfly activities for preschoolers
Free printable Butterfly missing addend game for Kindergarten
Count to 10 Butterfly Math Ten Frame Punch Cards
Butterfly Addition Puzzles
Kindergarten Butterfly Addition and Subtraction Worksheets
Free Counting Butterflies Worksheets

Butterfly Printables

FREE Printable Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheets
Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet Pack for kids
Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet and Observation Book
B is for Butterfly activities for toddler and preschoolers
Butterfly Puzzles Printable Rhyming Games
Free printable Butterfly Life Cycle Printables

Butterfly Crafts

Looking for more fun butterfly activities, butterfly crafts, and butterfly printables to add to your day or butterfly theme? Try these:

Try this crafty science project to make stunning chromatography butterflies

Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft for Kids
29 Pretty Butterfly Crafts for Kids
Shaving Cream Butterfly Craft
Butterfly Life Cycle Crafts w/ Free Printables

Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers

Cute Bowtie Pasta Butterfly Craft for Kids
Pasta Butterfly Crafts for Kids
Butterfly Suncatcher Craft
Simple Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly Craft for Kids
Pop-up Butterfly Craft
Pasta butterfly craft

Preschool Math

Looking for more fun math activities for preschoolers? Check out these fun ideas!

Shape Scavenger Hunt using our shape flaschards to look for shapes with this fun shape game
Cute Sandcastle tracing numbers 1-10 – practice counting and tracing numbers-1-20 with this super cute summer themed math activity
Count to 10 Spider Counting Playdough Maths – kids will have fun practicing counting to 10 with these super cute playdough mats
Do a dot printables numbers using bingo dauber markers are a fun way for kids to practice counting
Dinosaur Roll & Cover number recognition games
Body Number Identification Activity
Bug Themed Number Activity
Super cute and CLEVER Fingerprint Counting Printables
FUN Pirate Number Activities for Preschoolers
Strawberry preschool counting activities – this art and math activity is perfect for summer learning

FREE Spring Flower Count & Tracing Numbers 1-10 Worksheets
Watermelon Counting Playdough Mats – kids will have fun using playdough to practice counting
Goldfish counting printable – this clever activity allows kids to use goldfish to practice counting and one to one correspondence
Lego Numbers Counting Activity for Preschoolers use duplo blocks to practice counting and include a space for tracing numbers 1-10
Silly Worm counting activity for preschoolers with stickers
Eagle Number Puzzles or Bear Number Match, or Acorn Number Find
Zoo Animals Color by Number Worksheets – these math worksheets allow kids to work on number recognition while revealing hidden pictures
Printable Donut Counting Activity for Preschoolers and Kindergartners
Number Mazes – fun Number Activity for Preschoolers learning numbers 1-5

Butterfly worksheets for preschool

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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of Preschool Play and Learn. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! Beth is also the creator of 123Homeschool4Me.com and kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com where she shares more than 100,000 pages of FREE worksheets,& educational ideas for PreK-8th grade.

Free Printable Butterfly Math Worksheets for Preschoolers

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Counting butterflies is a fun way to practice counting skills! These simple butterfly math worksheets make it easy to get started. Just print and go – no prep required! Plus, they’re perfect for butterfly themed math lessons.

These worksheets are great for number recognition, too. Help your little ones find the right numeral to match the number of butterflies. They’ll be learning to count to ten in no time!

Whether you’re a teacher or a parent, these butterfly activities for preschoolers are a great way to help your little ones learn essential math skills. So print them out and get started today!

Kids love butterflies. They’re fascinated by the thought that they change from caterpillars to butterflies. And, they love watching them flit from flower to flower.

Engage your little ones with these free preschool printables. They’ll work on important math skills with pages adorned with adorable butterflies.

Inside this pack of free math worksheets, you’ll find eight pages designed for preschool and kindergarten students.

Each is adorned with adorable butterflies and designed to work on number recognition, number formation, counting to ten, and more.

Because they are print-and-go, all you need to do is print them out and you’re all set for some fun and engaging butterfly-themed math with your little ones.

Butterfly Math Activities for Preschool

Focus on beginning math skills with these butterfly math activities for preschoolers. Inside this eight-page worksheet pack, you’ll find the following math activities:

Number Formation

Learning to write numbers is an important preschool milestone. However, it can be a bit of a challenge for some kids.

This worksheet packet includes a handwriting page on which children will trace the numbers 1-25. You can laminate this page or slip it in a dry erase pocket to make it reusable. Have kids use a dry erase marker to complete the page, wipe it clean, and do it all over again.

Sorting by Size

Sorting by size is another important skill for preschoolers to learn. It helps them to understand similarities and differences, and to see relationships between objects.

The sorting by size worksheet in this printable pack encourages children to cut and paste three butterflies in order from smallest to largest. If they have trouble distinguishing the sizes with their naked eye, have them use snap cubes or paper clips to measure each one before sorting it.

Color Words

For many children, learning color words is their first exposure to vocabulary that goes beyond the familiar names of family members and common objects. Learning color words broadens their horizons and helps them to see the world in a new way.

In this pack, there is a page that focuses on color words – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Kids will read the color words in each box and color the butterfly accordingly.

If your child can’t read the color words yet, set out the six crayons and have them match the words on the crayon wrapper to the word in the box to color the butterflies.

Color by Number

At first glance, color by number worksheets may seem like nothing more than a simple coloring activity. However, these worksheets can actually teach preschoolers a variety of important skills.

They help children to develop fine motor skills and improve their hand-eye coordination. As children color in the different sections of the worksheet, they must pay close attention to the lines and numbers in order to stay within the lines.

Preschoolers will love completing the color by number in this pack to reveal the hidden image – an adorable butterfly.

Count and Color

For preschoolers, learning to count is an important stepping stone on the way to more complex math skills. And what better way to practice than with some fun worksheets?

This packet includes four count and color worksheets that are a great way for preschoolers to learn while they’re having fun. Each worksheet features a different group of objects to count. Kids will love counting the objects and then coloring them in according to the given instructions.

These worksheets are great for helping preschoolers develop their fine motor skills and number recognition. Plus, they’re just plain fun!

Butterfly Activities for Preschoolers

If your preschoolers enjoyed these butterfly-themed math activities, be sure to check out the activities I’ve shared below. They’re perfect for helping you round out your butterfly unit study.

Tissue paper butterfly
Parts of a Butterfly Playdough Mat
Butterfly life cycle wheel
Butterfly stick puppet for kids
Butterfly coloring pages
Butterfly stamping process art
Free butterfly life cycle worksheet

PRESCHOOL BOOKS ABOUT BUTTERFLIES

Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about butterflies. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore. If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

Butterflies – Curious kids ages 3 to 7 will be excited to learn about the magical world of butterflies: their beauty, their importance to plant life, and their incredible metamorphosis and migration. Pinkalicious and the Little Butterfly – Pinkalicious is so excited when Miss Penny brings monarch caterpillars to class. She makes friends with one and watches as it turns into a pinkamazing butterfly! Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors – Lucy sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden, along with a bright green beetle, a brilliant blue dragonfly, some red ladybugs, and many more flying and crawling things. But when will the radiant butterfly appear again?

RESOURCES I LOVE

This wooden butterfly puzzle will promote hand-eye coordination, develop problem-solving skills and improve matching skills. In addition, it can stimulate a child’s imagination and creativity.

This beautiful butterfly lacing toy is great for practicing the sewing motion. Wooden Lacing boards are great for fine motor development and hand eye coordination.

Spring and summer are the best time of year to study butterflies. This printable features nine life cycle of a butterfly activities for early learners.

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Butterflies and mathematics

The last lesson of the quarter is devoted to the repetition of the topic "All actions with decimal fractions." The lesson uses both educational and entertaining material. The teacher also distributes incentive tokens in the form of butterflies, which children, if desired, can color ( appendix 2 ). At the end of the lesson, the origami paper children fold and color their butterfly.

Homework: What do you associate with a butterfly? What butterflies would you like to tell your classmates about? Do a short presentation.

Equipment : projection board, projector, cut cards to start the lesson (attachment), incentive badges (appendix), worksheets (appendix).

Purpose of the lesson:

in a creative way recall all actions with decimal fractions, repeat the rules for actions with fractions,
in a fun way, get to know some types of butterflies9, with legends about butterflies,
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3 your horizons about butterflies, not only insects, but also fish, butterflies in astronomy, numismatics, fractal butterflies, butterfly-shaped crafts, origami butterflies, etc.

Lesson progress

You have fragments of pictures on the tables that you must collect. What unites the pictures you collected? (they depict insects). And in more detail you will get acquainted today with only one type of insect - this is .... ( application 1 )

Slide 1

(….butterflies) What associations do you have with butterflies? (you can try to count the number of butterflies in the picture)

Slide 2

Hello! Welcome to the lesson "Butterflies and Math"!

Slide 3

Do you know how, according to legend, butterflies appeared?

once the goddess of flowers flora decided to make God Zeus Gift: she took the purity of early
in the morning, the freshness of the mountain stream, the crystal shine CREATED A FLOWER THAT WAS UNEQUAL IN THE WHOLE WORLD. GOD ZEUS, SEEING SUCH A GREAT GIFT, CAN'T RESPOND AND KISSED THE TENDER PETALS. And - O MIRACLE! - THE FLOWER HAS BREAKED FROM THE STEM AND FLYED. SO, ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT GREEK LEGEND, BUTTERFLIES APPEARED...))

Slide 4

Let's get acquainted with these amazing creatures.

Task 1. Count the examples orally, round the answers to the nearest integer and find out which butterfly will fly to which flower and which flower the butterflies will not land on?

Slide 5

Butterfly geometry is very complex, comparable to the most complex calculations in the aircraft industry (introductory information).

Task 2 . And now, having solved the task (given on the leaves, the guys work independently, for correctly solved examples they receive a butterfly token that they can color in), you will find out the name of the largest and most beautiful butterfly that lives in our country. (Answer: Mahaon) ( Appendix 3 )

No. 2

Slide 6 Babochka Mahaon

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And one of the largest butterflies of the planet is atlas ( Attacus atlas) .

Add up the digits of answer No. 2 (c), multiply the resulting number by 1.2. You will get the wingspan of this butterfly in centimeters (up to 24 cm). The oral apparatus is not developed. Butterflies do not feed and live off the nutrients accumulated in the caterpillar stage.

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Many photographers are engaged in macro photography of nature, including the creation of pictures of bright butterflies. But only the Norwegian Kjell Sandved saw the letters of the Latin alphabet on their wings and decided to collect them all! This occupation took the photographer 24 years. The idea to create such an unusual alphabet came to Kjell more than 25 years ago. “I noticed a butterfly inside an old cigar box. She had a perfect "F" on her wing. A light seemed to flash in my head: if one letter arose in nature, then it is likely that there are others! And I decided to be the first to find them. ”

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Over the years of searching, the photographer found not only the letters of the alphabet and numbers from 1 to 9, but also found amazing patterns on the wings of butterflies and moths in the form of faces, eyes, animals and human figures.

Some butterflies have eyes that are similar in color and design to the eyes of an owl. These extraordinary images on the wings of a butterfly appeared as a result of evolution.

Task 3 . Complete the task (given on the leaves, the guys work independently, for correctly solved examples they receive a butterfly token that they can color in) and find out which butterfly travels more than 3000 km during migration. ( Appendix 4 )

No. 3

Slide 10 Dynamic pause

slept and suddenly woke up (we sleep under the head)

no longer wanted to sleep. (head tilts to the side)

Moved, stretched, (arms to the sides, arms up)

Soared up and flew. (swinging movements with the hands)

The sun will just wake up in the morning, (squats)

The butterfly is spinning and winding. (circling)

Task 4 (given on the sheets, the guys work independently, for correctly solved examples they get a butterfly token that they can color in). Follow calculations: ( Appendix 4 )

0.6: 0.05 = 0.54: 0.1 =

H A

9000 9000

0.1-0.04= 0.3 ² +0.1=

1.285 = 0.71,250,8 =

with

0.5: 0.2 = (1-0.2) ² =

and and

1:4= 3.4:17+0.8=

3.9:0.13= (0.7+0.3):0.5=

Write in the tables the letters corresponding to the answers found and read the names of the areas where there are also butterflies. Slides 11-12

1	0,64	30	0,06	20	0. 19	20	2.5	0.25	0,7
А	С	Т	Р	О	Н	O	m		9000

0,06

6,4

2. 5

0.19

266

6,4

6 E 60261

Slide 13 - Republican butterfly

Slide 14

Why do children love the kaleidoscope? Because this is so fabulous, charming, excitingly beautiful. Mathematics is all permeated with beauty and harmony, only this beauty must be seen. This is how Mandelbrot himself writes in his book "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" - "Why is geometry often called cold and dry? One of the reasons lies in its inability to describe the shape of clouds, mountains or trees. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not angles , the line of the coast is not a circle, the bark is not smooth, and the lightning is not a straight line..."

Slide 15

Look at the mysterious fractals - and the imagination will be carried away by a sparkling whirlwind of spirals, fantasy is thoughtfully spinning and fluttering like a light butterfly, and creative thought is amazed at the richness of colors and the perfection of lines.

With the fractal approach, chaos... ceases to be synonymous with disorder and acquires a fine structure. Fractal science is still very young and has a great future ahead of it. The beauty of fractals is far from being exhausted and will still give us many masterpieces - those that delight the eye, and those that bring true pleasure to the mind.

The iridescent nettle butterfly spread its wings and prepared to fly. A very beautiful fractal butterfly, large with large wings with rims, like bird feathers, yellow in color, turning into green towards the center.

Slide 16

The word fractal is derived from the Latin fractus and in translation means consisting of fragments.

Slide 17

One of the main properties of fractals is self-similarity. In the simplest case, a small part of the fractal contains information about the entire fractal.

Task 5. Can you make a butterfly? Of course, from wood, from threads, and even from plastic bottles! Slides 18-20

Slides 21 - And for Valentine's Day, a butterfly can be made from ... chewing gum.

Slide 22 You brought paper and colored pencils (felt-tip pens) to class. Let's make an origami butterfly together.

Let's smile together - slide 23.

And at the end of the lesson, get acquainted with the parable of the butterfly:

Slide 24

According to an ancient Indian legend, butterflies are someone's souls that did not fly to heaven.

And God sent them to earth to fulfill the postmen's assignment.

"Whisper of Desire" - you need to whisper so quietly to a butterfly so that it remains a mystery to all earthly creatures, and let it go.

Butterflies do not know how to speak, so on their wings she will deliver the request directly to heaven and the wish will surely come true.

Home Work: What do you associate the concept of "butterfly" with? What butterflies would you like to tell your classmates about? Do a short presentation.

Thank you for the lesson!

Didactic game "Wonder Butterflies" | Methodological development in mathematics (junior group) on the topic:

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“Didactic game for the sensory development of young children “Miracle Butterflies” Fedotova Tatyana Alexandrovna Teacher of the second junior group Nefteyugansk district municipal preschool educational budgetary institution “Child Development Center - Kindergarten "Rodnichok"

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Didactic game "MIRACLES - BUTTERFLIES"

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Tasks: To teach children to highlight the main features of objects: color, shape, size; find objects with given properties, group them according to two characteristics (color, shape). To acquaint children with different ways of examining objects (stroke, trace a contour with a finger, twist, unscrew). Encourage children to memorize and use the names of sensory standards and exploratory activities.

Slide 5

Purpose: To teach children to identify the main features of objects: color, shape, size; find objects with given properties, group them according to two characteristics (color, shape). To acquaint children with different ways of examining objects (stroke, trace a contour with a finger, twist, unscrew). Encourage children to memorize and use the names of sensory standards and exploratory activities. Purpose: To teach children to highlight the main features of objects: color, shape, size; find objects with given properties, group them according to two characteristics (color, shape). To acquaint children with different ways of examining objects (stroke, trace a contour with a finger, twist, unscrew). Encourage children to memorize and use the names of sensory standards and exploratory activities. Game exercise "Put the butterfly on the figure" Task: to develop fine motor skills of the hands.

Slide 6

Purpose: To teach children to identify the main features of objects: color, shape, size; find objects with given properties, group them according to two characteristics (color, shape). To acquaint children with different ways of examining objects (stroke, trace a contour with a finger, twist, unscrew). Encourage children to memorize and use the names of sensory standards and exploratory activities. Purpose: To teach children to highlight the main features of objects: color, shape, size; find objects with given properties, group them according to two characteristics (color, shape). To acquaint children with different ways of examining objects (stroke, trace a contour with a finger, twist, unscrew). Encourage children to memorize and use the names of sensory standards and exploratory activities. Game exercise "Find houses for butterflies" Task: To teach children to select geometric shapes according to certain criteria.

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Purpose: To teach children to identify the main features of objects: color, shape, size; find objects with given properties, group them according to two characteristics (color, shape). To acquaint children with different ways of examining objects (stroke, trace a contour with a finger, twist, unscrew). Encourage children to memorize and use the names of sensory standards and exploratory activities. Purpose: To teach children to highlight the main features of objects: color, shape, size; find objects with given properties, group them according to two characteristics (color, shape). To acquaint children with different ways of examining objects (stroke, trace a contour with a finger, twist, unscrew). Encourage children to memorize and use the names of sensory standards and exploratory activities. Game exercise "Decorate the butterfly with the same figure" Task: To facilitate the memorization and use of sensory standards by children (shape and color).

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Purpose: To teach children to identify the main features of objects: color, shape, size; find objects with given properties, group them according to two characteristics (color, shape). To acquaint children with different ways of examining objects (stroke, trace a contour with a finger, twist, unscrew). Encourage children to memorize and use the names of sensory standards and exploratory activities. Purpose: To teach children to highlight the main features of objects: color, shape, size; find objects with given properties, group them according to two characteristics (color, shape). To acquaint children with different ways of examining objects (stroke, trace a contour with a finger, twist, unscrew). Encourage children to memorize and use the names of sensory standards and exploratory activities. Game exercise "Decompose by color" Task: Exercise in the ability to find objects with given properties and group them by color.

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