2nd Grade Art & Science Projects — Explore and Create — Science Experiments and Art Projects
Students will create an art project showing the butterfly life cycle and learn how God designed butterflies to transform in an amazing way.
God designed butterflies with one of the most amazing life cycles in all of creation! A butterfly goes through four stages: egg, caterpillar (larva), chrysalis (pupa), and adult butterfly. This process is called metamorphosis.
First, a mother butterfly lays a tiny egg on a leaf. A caterpillar hatches from the egg and eats and eats until it grows big. Then it forms a chrysalis around itself and something miraculous happens inside — the caterpillar completely transforms into a beautiful butterfly!
The butterfly's transformation reminds us of what God does in our hearts. The Bible says that when we trust in Jesus, we become a new creation. Just like a caterpillar becomes a beautiful butterfly, God makes us new and beautiful on the inside!
Fold a paper plate into four sections. In each section, draw and label one stage of the butterfly life cycle: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly. Use pasta shapes to represent each stage (a small rice grain for the egg, a spiral pasta for the caterpillar, a shell pasta for the chrysalis, and a bow-tie pasta for the butterfly). Glue them on and color your project.