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
Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and put up the letter B on our Alphabet Tree! You can download my small alphabet letters here.
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.
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.
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.
(Note: To get all of the games in my Letter of the Week curriculum, please check out the curriculum in my store!)
Butterfly Pattern Activity! Hopefully I did better this time around on the pattern!
Large butterfly puzzle. Print, laminate and cut along the lines!
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.
Capital B and lowercase b sorting game, print, laminate, cut out the little butterflies and then sort away!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
(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.
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!)
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.
Butterfly coloring page, and Bb writing practice. You can also use your Dot-A-Dot markers for this one!
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!
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, 0.75 inch Diameter, Assorted Color
Letter B Scavenger Hunt: Fill your box with things that start with the letter B.
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!
Letter B Reading: The Big Green Pocketbook. We used the purse downloads from Homeschool Share
Note: To get all of the games in my Letter of the Week curriculum, please check out the curriculum in my store!
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
Just curious….I know you said you were kicking up your abc curriculum. Any chance you might come up with a different theme for the letter "b" for the boys??? This the ONLY letter in your entire curriculum that I don't think my son will like. I know….like you don't have enough on your plate as it is! Just wondering if it was something you were already planning???
ANONYMOUS: I don't have plans to update Letter B anytime soon, maybe you can make it more boyish by learning more about insects and bugs along with it? Maybe order a butterfly kit, stuff like that?I will put it in my suggestion box though for the future if I have time :o)Thanks for the suggestion!
my son loves butterflys and flowers, I don't think this needs to be more "boyish" at all. These are two things found in nature that are good things to learn about.I love your letter of the week series! my son enjoys it as well.
I am using a "pond" themed alphabet wall with my grandson- alligator, beaver, cattails, dragonfly, etc. We will use butterflies- but beavers also 🙂
Hi! :)I feel so blessed to found out your blog! It is really wonderful and very helpful! THANKS FOR SHARING! :)I am very interested in having your letter of the week curriculum, I just have one worry, I just want to confirm if there are no hidden charges aside from $ 10 ? like any processing fee etc.. Is is purely $10 ? the downloadable one 🙂 Thanks so much, 🙂 My apology if i ask this question, just want to make sure 🙂 coz you know i'm a budget concious mom, hope you understand 🙂 thanks so much again!