Hi everyone! Welcome to the Letter B! Naturally after finishing with caterpillars last week, butterflies just seemed the right way to go. I did go a little overboard with this, so brace yourself!
Letter B Memory Verse:
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Acts 16:31
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23
For our verses and accompanying games/stories we use the following books:
ABC Memory Verses
Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Song time:
Hide ‘Em in Your Heart Vol 1
Hide ‘Em In Your Heart Songs – Vol 2
Letter B Tracing Cards: Laminate then use with use with Expo Dry Erase Markers for pre-writing practice skills.
Butterfly Clip cards: you can use these fun colored paper clips, or mini-clothespins, or beans, or whatever. Goal is to place the correct amount of clips onto the card. Click here to download!
Letter Bb Do-A-Dot page: We use Do-a-Dot Art Markers with this!
Butterfly Counting: just place the correct number on the card based on how many butterflies are on it. Click here to download!
3. Butterfly Lacing Card. Just print, laminate then hold punch every inch or so, add string or yarn to lace. I’ve also seen people tie a twisted pipe cleaner into a needle shape then the string is tied on that so its easier for lacing. Click here to download!
Butterfly Pattern Activity! Hopefully I did better this time around on the pattern! Click here to download.
Large butterfly puzzle. Print, laminate and cut along the lines! Click here to download.
Butterfly Size Sort, just sort the pieces onto the game board based on size. You can also have them line the pieces up small to large. Click here to download!
Capital B and lowercase b sorting game, print, laminate, cut out the little butterflies and then sort away! Click here to download
Butterfly Color Matching Game. So in my late night game creating fog, I made this game twice LOL! Oh well, I just mixed them all together in one bag and will let her sort them out! Haha! Click here to download solid color matching game!
Click here to download the multi-colored butterfly matching.
Large Floor Butterfly numbers: since the caterpillar floor game went so well, I made some for the butterflies. Goal is to call out numbers and have your child hop to the correct one. And we could use some number recognition help around here! Click here to download!
Butterfly dice game: goal is to roll the die and move your piece to the next spot containing your rolled number. First one to the flower wins! Click here to download!
How many butterflies? Goal is to pick a number and place it on the game board. Your child will put that amount of butterflies on the board. Click here to download!
Butterfly letter matching game. This is a fun letter matching activity, that practices both upper and lowercase letters recognition! If you’re looking for more challenge, use the uppercase card with the lowercase letter disks or visa versa! (The download includes upper and lowercase letter disks and activity cards) Click here to see the process of making the letters.
Click here to download the butterfly card!
(Please note, the original idea for this game came from Tot School and Carisa’s blog.)
Butterfly numbers writing practice: I laminated these then cut them out along the lines, hole punched the corner and used an o-ring to bind them together like a little booklet. Use dry-erase markers to practice writing numbers. Click here to download!
Butterfly pre-writing practice: I laminated these then cut them out along the lines, hole punched the corner and used an o-ring to bind them together like a little booklet. Use dry-erase markers to practice writing numbers. I un-binded them so you can see what each card looks like. ( You can also print these on regular copy paper and use for cutting practice!) Click here to download!
Butterfly Alphabet writing practice: I laminated these then cut them out along the lines, hole punched the corner and used an o-ring to bind them together like a little booklet. Use dry-erase markers to practice writing numbers. Click here to download!
Butterfly coloring page, and Bb writing practice. You can also use your Dot-A-Dot markers for this one! Click here to download!
Letter Collage Worksheets: The download includes letters A-Z as well as a collage idea sheet. We use the collage items as objects to decorate our letters for an alphabet book. We also color, paint, and stamp them. Since we use both upper and lowercase, I have provided both for you! Click here to download the Letter Collages:
Bb lacing cards, I just hole punched these every inch or so, then use yarn or string laces to lace the cards! Click here to download the A-Z lacing cards.
Butterfly magnet page: I use this with a cookie sheet and these pom-pom magnets I made from pom-poms and self-sticky magnets from the craft isle in Wal-mart. I also use these magnets from Amazon: Power Magnets, 0.78 inch Diameter, Assorted Color
Letter B Scavenger Hunt: Fill your box with things that start with the letter B. You can download the Letter B Scavenger Hunt Card here!
Butterfly Crafts: I haven’t decided which we’ll do, but these look fun, I’ll edit this post with our results:
Deep Space Sparkle Butterflies
Kaboose Coffe Filter Butterflies
Okay, we did a Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft, click here for instructions!
22. Letter B Reading: The Big Green Pocketbook
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these are WONDERFUL ideas. We are working on B next week for my preschool daughter and with my son's kindergarten Curriculum he will be working on B for Butterfly in only a few weeks. So I can make some of these activities for his sister and then use them again for him. Love the coffee filter craft. i think we will be making that one. Thanks again. this is great!
As always…amazing!
Great job, Erica!Jolanthe
Wow, these are amazing! Thanks for sharing!
What a blessing!
I just discovered your site and I just love all that you are willing to share with us! One thing, I was trying to download the Butterfly Numbers Writing Pracitce and the Butterfly Pre-Writing Practice and it downloaded the Butterfly size sort. I would love to know once this is fixed. My DD would love this.eric_danielle at netzero dot com
Erica, everything you've shared here is wonderful. Thank you so much. I can't find to create anything so your blog is such a blessing to me
Sorry, some of my links were broken, that's what I get for trying to cut and paste LOL! They are all fixed now! Thanks!
You always have the neatest ideas! I love all the butterflies!
You really outdid yourself this time, it's all so beautiful!
Love all your butterfly ideas. YOU did a great job creating them.
I just printed out quite a few of these activities. Thanks so much for your time and for so freely sharing them. My son loves butterflies and will be happy to see them in his workboxes this week. All good things, Nancy in NC
What a great buttetfly unit! The butterfly puzzle and prewriting practice are my favorites. I bookmarked this post for when we go see our beautiful monarch butterflies that come nest with us in the winter.
This is all super! We love butterflies, especially my daughter. I love that lacing card and puzzle.Thank you so much for linking up!!
I love all your stuff. I have been trying to download your activities and the butterfly number cards for the clips and the butterfyl milk cap page is not printing right. I am thinking something is wrong with the file. If you can help me that would be great.
Michelle: I just downloaded it myself to see if everything was okay, and it looks alright. If you send me your email, I'll email the file directly to you. Sorry!
Hi there, I just love all of your ABC materials. I just bought the download from you and am wondering if you have the dot a dot and magnet pages for all of the ABC's. I did find the B magnet page here for some reason it did not download in the purchased download. Thank you so much. These two activities are my daughter's favorite!!! I can't tell you how much we appreciate all you have done for the homeschooling community!!
Kally, I didn't make the Do-A-Dot page for all the letters, but most of them. Also, thanks for letting me know about the magnet page in the download, I believe it's added now! Sorry!
I recently discovered your blog and thank goodness! I kicked off this week following the suggestions for the Letter A. My son especially loved the ant match up game. Thanks for the idea on memorizing scriptures, Jack is learning 2 Timothy 3:16. "All scripture is inspired by God.." Much Thanks again!
Awesome! I'm glad I found your blog!Blessings,Camie
Visiting from the Ultimate Blog Party. LOVE your ideas! I will be promoting your blog at the end of the Party. My kids are too big
but my sister will love your ideas.What a great job you do!
I am so thankful that I discovered your blog. Your talent and time is such a blessing to us. Thank you for sharing with all of us. God bless you!
I just found you and was so excited that I had to write a quick post for my readers… I'm at http://www.cherieiam.blogspot.com. I love the ideas! I'm not a terribly original/crafty/imaginative person… childhood was kind of lost on me, so it's great to get a good push into fun stuff that I know my kids will LOVE! Thanks! I think it's going to be a late night here!
Oh I have really enjoyed slooking at this. We are doing Alphabet letters and these links are so good.Thanks for sahringBlessingsGae
I just found your site and I am amazed at your wonderful activities. How do you find the time to put all that together and do you still have time to keep up with your housework: cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc.? I am a stay at home mom of four, four and under and would love to do all this considering I was a teacher before, but struggle to find the time. What are your tips?? Would love to hear from you!! Thanks!!
Hi Jen,You probably have better advice than I do considering you were a teacher! I guess on finding time, I just make school a priority. I try to be well planned (do most of that in the evenings) and I try to stay away from distractions until we get school done! Then we move on to chores, etc.I do have a sample daily schedule so you can see the chaos in action here:http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/tag/our-schedule