Looking for a hands-on Monarch butterfly life cycle activity? This printable science and art resource helps students learn about Monarch butterflies before completing a creative cut-and-paste life cycle craft.

The four-page lesson explores the Monarch butterfly’s appearance, diet, habitat, location in Canada and four life cycle stages. Students then sequence the egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult butterfly stages using a circular Medicine Wheel activity.

Monarch Butterfly Lesson and Activities

♡ Four-page Monarch butterfly lesson
♡ Monarch butterfly appearance and diet
♡ Monarch butterfly habitat and location in Canada
♡ Four stages of the Monarch butterfly life cycle
♡ Introduction to a Medicine Wheel
♡ Cut-and-paste butterfly life cycle activity
♡ Indigenous butterfly teaching presented in the lesson
♡ Original Indigenous art butterfly colouring page
♡ Creative butterfly writing activity

Butterfly Life Cycle Medicine Wheel Craft

Students cut, sequence and paste the four stages of the Monarch butterfly life cycle onto the included circular template. This visual butterfly life cycle craft helps students understand how a Monarch changes from an egg into an adult butterfly.

Medicine Wheel teachings and meanings vary among Indigenous Nations and communities. This resource uses the circular format to organize the four life cycle stages and should not suggest that all Medicine Wheel teachings traditionally represent the Monarch butterfly life cycle.

Perfect For

♡ Monarch butterfly lessons
♡ Butterfly life cycle activities
♡ Elementary science
♡ Spring classroom activities
♡ Insect and animal life cycles
♡ Science and art integration
♡ Indigenous education
♡ Medicine Wheel activities
♡ Outdoor and nature education
♡ Creative writing

All artwork included in this product is an original creation by West Coast Indigenous Teacher and is protected by copyright.