Butterfly Printables

These butterfly flashcard blanks are a great starting point for a butterfly research project. We have taken the 10 most common British butterflies. Ask the kids to draw a picture of the butterfly and fill in the information to create their own lovely flashcards.

This very colourful butterflies scene poster is the perfect partner to our caterpillars scene poster. How lovely would they look displayed side by side?

This might be one of the most colourful and prettiest writing frames on Activity Village, full of beautiful butterflies! We've included five different landscape versions of this frame in this pack, to suit different needs. 

This butterfly alphabet printable is pretty and useful for all sorts or projects! Children can make a banner of their name or a butterfly sign for their bedroom door.

Pretty butterflies to print and cut out! Use them to make your own game board, for sticking, for writing on... or how about sewing a line of them together with simple running stitch and embroidery thread for a pretty butterfly hanging or mobile? Available in black and white and colour.

I have one of these butterfly bookmarks marking the page of my diary – and it puts a smile on my face every time I see it! Once you cut them out you might want to laminate these butterfly bookmarks to make them longer lasting and protect the antennae.

These pretty butterfly images can be used for crafts or just for cutting and sticking. The antennae may have to be chopped off as you cut them out, of course! You can always draw them in again when the butterflies are in their new place.

Here's a fun butterfly lacing card to print, cut out and laminate for developing fine motor control in younger children.

Colourful and chunky, this butterfly lacing card is perfect for younger children and a great extra activity for spring and summer, or a butterfly topic.

This handy printable butterfly life cycle diary prints onto A4 paper, which you can then fold to make an A5 booklet.

You can see all of the stages in the lifecycle of the butterfly together on this lovely poster. Perfect for project books and displays! 

There are four stages in the metamorphosis of butterflies, and we've shown them all in a simple diagram on this printable life cycle poster. Display our labelled version, or print the blank version and ask the children if they can name each stage.

We've got a set of 4 lovely colourful posters  - one for each stage of the butterfly life cycle - to print and display in the classroom. Choose from labelled, or blank versions below.

This set of butterfly life cycle word cards includes some of the terminology that you will need when describing the butterfly life cycle. Perfect for displays, vocabulary work and so on...

This pretty butterfly meadow jigsaw is a perfect summer activity for the children! Print onto some white card and cut out both pictures. Cut the larger picture into smaller pieces then jumble up ready for the kids to put back together.

This pretty mobile is a fun cutting and sticking activity for children - perfect for a wet summer afternoon, perhaps! Cut out each pair of butterflies and then glue together, trapping a piece of thread behind them.

The butterfly on the poster is a lovely yellow and orange. Print and display as part of a minibeast, garden, spring or summer project.

We've presented these butterfly project ideas so that kids can choose their own activities and try to complete a row or a line like a bingo game - although the butterfly activities suggested are so much fun they might well want to complete the whole sheet.

This lovely butterfly scrapbook paper is a riot of bright colour and perfect for small craft projects, or wrapping little gifts.

There are 2 designs of this pretty butterfly and flower stationery. Print on A4 paper and then cut in half for conventiently sized A5 writing paper. Choose from blank, lined or handwriting lines versions, which are all included in this pdf file. Make sure you print the page you want!

Here is another pretty butterfly template to print for kids crafts and other projects.  There are multiple sizes in the pdf file below.

Here's a simple butterfly template to print for crafts, including our felt butterfly craft.

It is easy to see the similarities between a butterfly and a moth, but harder to see the differences! This useful fact sheet provides some help.

Three pretty printable Butterfly writing paper pages to print for the kids to enjoy...

Two gorgeous butterflies flutter on this pretty writing paper, which comes in three different versions.

Will this little boy manage to catch one of the pretty butterflies in his net? This lovely, summery jigsaw is a great way to keep the kids busy. Just print onto card, cut out both pictures then cut the larger picture into small pieces ready for the kids to put together.

This colourful activity is a great way for the kids to practise their drawing and concentrations skills, and learn about symmetry too. Can they complete each butterfly picture by drawing an exact reflection? We've got 2 sets to choose one, one with a grid to make the task a little easier.

We've provided the outlines of lots of pretty butterflies. Now all the kids need to do is draw on some symmetrical designs and then colour them in!

Have the colouring pencils ready.  Once the kids have mastered our simple learn to draw a butterfly tutorial they will have fun creating lots of lovely coloured butterflies. 

This beautiful minibeast scrapbook paper is full of pretty butterflies, dragonflies and cute ladybirds. Perfect for crafting, origami, decoupage and much more.

This printable scrapbook paper features colourful childlike flowers, a butterfly and a gorgeous turquoise background - so pretty!