🦋 Part 1: Life Cycle Stages

1. What are the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle? Circle the correct answer:

egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → butterfly

egg → butterfly → caterpillar → chrysalis

caterpillar → egg → butterfly → chrysalis

2. What is the special word for the big change a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly?

M __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ S

3. Which stage eats the most food? Circle one:

Egg

Caterpillar

Chrysalis

Butterfly

4. Check all the things a caterpillar does:

Eats leaves

Flies around

Grows bigger

Lays eggs

✏️ Part 2: Understanding Life Cycles

5. Draw lines to match each stage with what happens:

Egg

Caterpillar

Chrysalis

Butterfly

Rests and changes inside

Flies and lays new eggs

Very tiny, stuck to a leaf

Eats lots of leaves

6. Why do you think the caterpillar needs to eat so much food?

7. Complete this sentence:

The Monarch butterfly is special to New Zealand because _______________

🎨 Part 3: Creative Activity

8. Draw your favourite stage of the butterfly life cycle in the box below:

9. If you could be any stage of the butterfly life cycle, which would you choose and why?

I would be a ______________ because:

Butterfly Life Cycle

Butterfly Life Cycle

🦋 Part 1: Life Cycle Stages

✏️ Part 2: Understanding Life Cycles

🎨 Part 3: Creative Activity

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