Adult-led activities
Butterflies make an excellent subject for an early years topic at this time of year. The theme can offer learning opportunities across the Foundation Stage curriculum, especially in creative development and knowledge and understanding of the world. The project is all the more exciting, and can literally be brought to life, when early years settings hatch their own butterflies.
Key learning intention
To look closely at change
Adult:child ratio 1:4
Resources
*Nursery World poster *poster showing life cycle of the butterfly and, ideally, a set of models of the various stages of the lifecycle of a butterfly *fiction and non-fiction books about butterflies for children to look at on their own and with their teacher *The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Hamish Hamilton, 4.99) *story sack to accompany the story *butterfly hatching kit, containing caterpillars, hatching house, food and clear instructions for use (See the back of the Nursery World poster for details of books, hatching kits and other resources).
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