Insects life cycles foldable activities butterfly, honey bee, ladybug, dragonfly

Teach or review the stages of insect life cycles with these foldable sequencing activities. This bundled resource has differentiated cut and paste templates for 4 common insect life cycles - a butterfly, ladybug, dragonfly and honeybee.

These cute bug activities are ideal for interactive science notebooks, lap books, and science centers.

Benefits of these activities:

• Low prep
• Children learn about life cycles in a fun and hands-on way, that’s a bit different from a standard science worksheet.
• Can be used to introduce the life cycle, or as a review/assessment to check understanding.
• Encourages fine motor/scissor skills, hand-eye coordination (folding), and sequencing.
• Differentiated options allow for multiple age ranges or abilities to do the same activity.
• Finished foldouts can be inserted into an interactive notebook where they can be referenced by children.

Options for students include:

• Color the insect and its life cycle stages, cut out the template and fold.
• Color the insect and its life cycle stages, cut out and sequence the stages, glue them onto the template, cut and fold.

What teachers are saying about this resource:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This was a great hands-on activity for my 2nd grade life cycle unit! I used this as a hands-on center during my Science block, and the kids loved it so much, I let them rotate all week, doing a different life cycle foldable each day. They had a lot of fun with these! I could see this being easily adaptable for 1st or 3rd grade as well.'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'My students absolutely love this resource! Very interactive and super easy to use.'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Very engaging and great tool to recall and remember the steps'.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'All of my students were very engaged in this activity. Easy to use and easy to cut and fold. Thank you.'