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 thinking of purchasing your letter set for $15? I am just wondering if that comes with all the arts & crafts and everything that the example for letter B shows?
I am wondering how can I print the B Do-a-dot page? I tried but it is asking for a membership and email address.
Hi! I love your curriculum and am planning on buying it to use in the fall. Do you think it’s OK for a young yet advanced 3 year old? I need something for my daughter while I also work with my 2nd grade son since she loves to “play homeschooling”! We use the workbox system with him, do young ones do well with that system as well? Thanks!
Hi Erica,
I am interested in downloading and printing some of your Butterfly pages, but whenever I click on “Click here to download” I am taken to a page (4shared.com) that has some very inappropriate ads, no matter how many times I refresh the page. I have my 5 year old son here next to me and I ended up having to quickly cover some of the ads with my hand while I clicked on the back button. Even when I did click on download from the 4shared page it asked me to download using twitter, facebook, etc. which I don’t have accounts with. Is there a way to download these butterfly printables directly from your site?
Thank you,
Jamie
Hi Jamie,
I just emailed you download instructions, hope that helps!
Erica, I found your site while searching for worksheets for my class. At this time, I use several websites to find their worksheets. I currently teach at a small preschool where I have 12, 3 year olds. Which program would you suggest I use. Thank You!l
Hi! I’m having trouble downloading these files. Can you help? Thank you!
Hi! I am having the same trouble as some of the ladies above. When I click to download it takes me to a 4shared site and I can’t figure out how to get the files. Instructions would be much appreciated! Thanks!
I am also having the same difficulty downloading. If you are able to help me out I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!
I recently purchased your pre-k curriculum and I’m using it with my son. I really love all of your materials and the quantity/excess of activities. It really gives me all I need. Thank you for compiling all this for mommas like me who are completely new to all of this! This week we are on letter B and my only comment is that it’s all butterflies. My son isn’t super into butterflies (unlike my daughter) so i’m adding in other resources so I don’t loose his attention in the process.
Hi there,
I read some of the previous comments and you had said you fixed the links but the butterfly size sorting is not working for me. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas and support! I just bought your book and am so excited to jump right in to homeschooling.
Hi Brianna, yes, I thought it was updated. Here is the direct link, and I updated it again just in case:
http://www.4shared.com/office/wBw5xT3t/butterflysizesort.html