Butterflies - Limited Edition Council's Own

Butterflies  Requirements

(1st to 3rd grade) 3 requirements
(4th-6th grade)4 requirements
Older participants 5 requirements

ACTIVITY #1: Butterfly Garden

Design, plant and maintain a Butterfly Garden to attract butterflies. You could ask to plant it at school, at church, at a nursing home or even for your community.  Some schools have this as annual project already. 

ACTIVITY #2: Color and Label a Butterfly

ACTIVITY #3: Monarch Migration

Every year millions of Monarch butterflies fly up to 2200 miles to their wintering grounds in Mexico . Environmental problems throughout the Monarch’s vast range have turned this wondrous passage into an endangered biological phenomenon. Find out about the migration of the Monarch!  View photos or pictures of the migration.

You will find many other web sites as well as books and field guides about the event at the library or school.

ACTIVITY #4: Life Cycle Study

Find out about the life cycle of the butterfly.

ACTIVITY #5: Colorful Butterfly Wings

Review two or more butterflies’ colorful wings in books, internet, or in a museum. How are they different and how are they the same?

ACTIVITY #6: Create a craft about butterflies

ACTIVITY #7: Learn about butterflies that camouflage themselves away their enemies.

ACTIVITY #8: Learn about the people that have careers working with butterflies

Examples are a Lepidopterist or a Naturalist.

ACTIVITY #9: Endangered!

Find one butterfly that is endangered and why?  What does it look like?

ACTIVITY #10: Learn More

Learn more about butterflies by reading a short story, legend, watching a movie/video or going to an event.

ACTIVITY #11: Write a Poem or Tell a Story

Junior girls should write a poem or a story, factual or “make-believe”, about butterflies. Brownies can tell a story, draw it, or write it, according to their wishes.