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  • Writing Paper: Butterfly (elementary)
    Lined paper with an illustration of a butterfly at the top. (elementary) (20 pt. line, 1.25 spaces between lines)
  • Writing Paper: Ladybug (Elementary)
    Lined paper with an illustration of a ladybug at the top. (elementary) (20 pt. line, 1.25 spaces between lines)
  • Crossword: Ladybugs
    1 DOWN: A ladybug is helpful here.
  • Butterflies Picture Graph
    This Butterflies Picture Graph is perfect to practice graphing skills. Your elementary grade students will love this Butterflies Picture Graph. Printable themed picture graph.
  • Calendar: Ladybugs (days)
    Cute ladybugs and the numbers from 1-31, as well as extra ladybugs. Great for making a calendar or for playing math games. Six to a page.
  • Calendar: Bees (days)
    Bees cards with the numbers 1-31. Great for making a calendar or for playing math games. Six to a page.
  • KWL: Butterflies
    Use this form to organize Know, Want to know, and Learned material about butterflies.
  • Web Organizer: Butterflies
    Use this web organizer to help organize brainstorming ideas about butterflies.
  • Research and Report: Bees
    Report planner, KWL, and a lined page to write a report about bees.
  • Handwriting Form: Bees
    Simple blackline bee illustrations with primary lines. "Use the lines on the bees to practice your printing or cursive letters. Cut out the squares and staple to make an A "bee" C book."
  • Flashcards: Butterflies (preschool/primary)
    Pictures with words make these six cards useful for a variety of activities: flashcards, picture prompts, etc. Print two sets for a memory game.
  • Insects Bar Graph
    This Insects Bar Graph is perfect to practice graphing skills. Your elementary grade students will love this Insects Bar Graph. Create a bar graph to show information about favorite insects.
  • Butterfly Project Ideas
    List of ideas for various butterfly-related projects, including a report, poster and scale model.
  • Make a Poster: Butterfly Lifecycle

    Instructions to research and make a poster about the life cycle of a butterfly.

  • Coloring Page: Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly
    Picture of a Colorado Hairstreak buttefly to color.
  • Coloring Page: Giant Swallowtail Butterfly
    Color this drawing of a Giant Swallowtail butterfly.
  • Coloring Page: Yellow Bar Butterfly
    Picture of a Yellow Bar butterfly to color.
  • Coloring Page: Dogface Butterfly
    Drawing of a Dogface butterfly to color.
  • Coloring Page: Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
    Pretty drawing of a tiger swallowtail butterfly to color.
  • Monarch Butterfly (elem) Color and Write
    Use this 'Color and Write: Monarch Butterfly (elem)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Color and Write: Monarch Butterfly (elem)'. A picture to color and space to write about butterflies.
  • Writing Paper: Ladybug (primary)
    Wide-lined paper with an illustration of a ladybug at the top. (primary) (20 pt. line, 1.5 spaces between lines)
  • Word Search: Ladybugs
    Find the ladybug theme words from "beetles" to "summer" in this ladybug-shaped word search.
  • Ladybugs (elem) Writing Paper
    Use this 'Writing Paper: Ladybugs (elem)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Writing Paper: Ladybugs (elem)'. Lined and unlined paper with a picture of ladybugs at the top of the page.
  • Ladybug Similes (elem/upper elem) Writing Prompt
    Use this 'Writing Prompt: Ladybug Similes (elem/upper elem)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Writing Prompt: Ladybug Similes (elem/upper elem)'. Briefly explains similes and then encourages students to write and illustrate their own.
  • KWL: Insects
    Use this form to organize Know, Want to know, and Learned material about insects.
  • Report Form: Insects
    Full page report format for students to write a report on an insect. Includes targeted questions.
  • Venn Diagram: Insect
    Use this Venn diagram to compare two insects.
  • Did You Know? Insects
    Two printable cards with graphics for writing facts about insects.
  • Science Praying Mantis (upper elem/middle) Comprehension
    Use this 'Comprehension: Science Praying Mantis (upper elem/middle)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Comprehension: Science Praying Mantis (upper elem/middle)'. A 1 page selection about this interesting insect, followed by 4 multiple choice questions, and 5 questions requiring brief written responses.
  • Praying Mantis Acrostic Form
    Use this 'Acrostic Form: Praying Mantis' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Acrostic Form: Praying Mantis'. Use this acrostic form to write a poem about the praying mantis.
  • Praying Mantis (primary) Color and Write
    Use this 'Color and Write: Praying Mantis (primary)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Color and Write: Praying Mantis (primary)'. Blackline illustration of a praying mantis to color, and wide lines for writing a story about it.
  • Writing Prompt: Praying Mantis (elem/upper elem)
    Write a story with the praying mantis as a character or major part of the storyline. Includes blackline illustration of a praying mantis and wide lines.
  • Venn Diagram: Arachnids/Insects
    Use this Venn diagram to compare arachnids and insects.
  • Crossword: Spiders
    7 ACROSS: The name for baby spiders.
  • Crossword: Spiders (easy)
    1 ACROSS: _____ are helpful.
  • Report Form: Insects
    Use this simple form to write a report on insects.
  • Report Form: Desert Insects
    List of desert insects and spiders to research, with a list of targeted questions to answer in a box. The boxes can be cut out to make a bulletin board display.
  • Research and Report Form: Desert Insects
    List of desert insects to research, including lines for writing what you find out.
  • Flashcards: Rain Forest Animals
    Six labeled cards with color photos of various rain forest animals: an insect, a reptile, an amphibian, a mammal, a bird, and a fish. More pictures in this set are available on our member site.
  • Coloring Page: Cartoon Butterfly (2)
    Color this picture of a cartoon butterfly, or trace and cut out to make a great shapebook.