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 just came across your website and think it is excellent!!! I am a Pre-k teacher and creativity is so important when working with children with different learning styles and on different levels. You blog is so creative thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas with everyone!!!
Ok, so I JUST (on all these!!): *found ur site, * started researching, *became completely overwhelmed, *put n my no-contract for next year (I’m a public school teacher), *decided to homeschool, *picked out my kids and *became interested n ABC/123…not n that order!! 😉 Anyway, I need a suggestion!! If I buy the “printable” 1500 page ABC/123…I will want it all at once to organize n “get ready”, but not wanting to buy ink cartilages for my home (LITTLE) printer…any idea where I can go to print entire set?? Thx!!
I love your products and am wondering if you do some of this yourself and if so what software you use. I’ve been looking everywhere online because I’d really like to make some custom ones for my school. I’d appreciate any feedback on programs that have worked for you.
WOW!!!! I am a mother of two small children and also teach pre-k 4 at a small private school. I love your ideas! I was looking for things to use with my 3 year old over the summer and this is perfect! Your are amazing and such an inspiration! Thank you!
Thanks Erica – I am enjoying reading and looking at all the wonderful things you have on your site! I wish I had more time at the moment to completely peruse all your ideas and printables, but I will have to get back and look more later! I just wanted to say how excited I am to find this and that I look forward to using some of the things I have seen so far!
Just a quick question! Do you have a link that lists all the books you use through out the pre-k curriculum? I just would like an idea, I am always out at Goodwill etc..and find books super cheap. SO it would be easier to have a whole list! If not no biggie ;)!!
Thanks for working so hard to be an encouragement to all the homeschooling Mama’s! I LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog! We just started out adventure this year. My husband has been on board but after showing him your blog—the 10 day posts of the reasons why/ fundamentals and the reasons why y’all homeschool– he was super encouraged and we both felt God using it to confirm our desire to homeschool..and that we are moving in the right direction!!
Thanks again!! May Jesus fill your heart full of His love today!!
Stephanie Rex
Hi again., you said let you know if something was missing, I’m after the Bb’s that the kids put the pins in thanks
I just downloaded your Letter of the Week Curriculum, and am so excited! Thank you for all the work you put into it to make it so great. I am looking forward to starting this fall with my son!
Querida…. quantas coisas maravilhosas!!!
Obrigada por ser tão generosa!!!!
Renata – Brazil
Thank you so much Erica for posting and sharing all of your wonderfully fun and engaging printables. You are truly a generous and gifted person. I’m so excited to start sharing your work with my twins. You are really amazing, I don’t know how you find the time to create all of these amazing activities, while taking care of a family. Don’t you ever sleep? 🙂 Thank you so much Erica!