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This fun and creative activity helps children visualise a Butterfly’s Life Cycle by encouraging them to think of edible items to represent each stage of the cycle.
This activity would be great for younger children to read alongside The Very Hungry Caterpillar, too!
Don’t forget I have lots more kitchen science experiments to try if you enjoy this one!
The life cycle of a butterfly has four stages, each lasting anywhere between one month and a whole year!
The first stage is the egg. Butterfly eggs are very small and round or oval. If you look carefully, you might even see a teeny tiny caterpillar growing inside them! The actual shape of the egg depends on the type of butterfly inside. Butterfly eggs are laid on leaves.
We call butterfly larvae caterpillars. Caterpillars hatch from the tiny eggs in stage 1. Caterpillars mostly eat!
Did you know that mother butterflies lay their eggs on a type of leaf their caterpillars like to eat? This is because caterpillars cannot easily travel to find a source of food they like.
The skin of a caterpillar doesn’t grow with the…