Perry Public Library
Storytime
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
Stories we read:
Waiting for Wings: by Lois Ehlert
Other books you may enjoy sharing:
The Lamb and the Butterfly / Arnold
Sundgaard
Butterfly / Mick Inkpen
Are You a Butterfly? / Judy Allen
Butterflies / Emily Neye
From Caterpillar to Butterfly / Deborah Heiligman
Butterflies and Moths / Larry Brimmer
Butterfly Alphabet Book / Brian Cassie
It could still be a butterfly / Allan Fowler
Butterfly Story / Anca Hariton
Butterfly and the bog beast / Nancy Krulik
From Caterpillar to Butterfly / Gerald Legg
Where Butterfiles Grow / Joanne Ryder
Butterflies / Karen Shapiro
Butterflies / Graham Tarrant
Butterfly & Moth / Paul Whalley
Butterfly House / Eve Bunting
Butterfly Count / Sneed Collard
Flutterby Fly / Steven Cosgrove
Price of the Butterflies / Bruce Coville
Clara Caterpillar / Pamela Edwards
The Things with wings / Gregory Holch
Gotta Go Gotta Go / Sam Swope
Caterpillar Caterpillar / Vivian French
Wings of Change / Franklin Hill
Songs and rhymes to share:
La Mariposa (the
butterfly) from “World Playground: a musical adventure for kids”
Five Little
Butterflies
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Caterpillar
act out rhyme
from Barney’s – “Run Jump Skip and Sing” Fuzzy wuzzy caterpillar into a corner will creep
Five little
butterflies resting at the door, He’ll spin himself a blanket and then fall fast asleep
One flew away and then there were four. Fuzzy wuzzy caterpillar wakes up by and by
*Butterfly, Butterfly, happy all day, Stretches out his lovely wings , now he’s a butterfly!
Butterfly, Butterfly, fly fly away.
continue with…
Arabella Miller
Four little butterflies sitting in a tree,
Sing to “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
One flew away and then there were three*
Little Arabella Miller
Three little butterflies looking at you,
Found a wooly caterpillar (wiggle one finger)
One flew away and then there were two*
First it crawled upon her mother (tickle mom)
Two little butterflies sitting in the sun
Then upon her baby brother (tickle a friend)
One flew away and then there was one*
Everyone said “Arabella Miller
One little butterfly left all alone,
Take away that caterpillar!” (shake finger)
One flew away and then there were none*
Crawling
Caterpillar
a fun tickle rhyme
“Who’s that climbing up my back?” said the wall
“It’s me!” said the caterpillar “I’m learning to crawl!”
Flutter
Flutter Butterfly fly like a butterfly
Flutter, flutter butterfly- floating in the summer sky
Floating by for all to see- floating by so merrily
Flutter, flutter butterfly- floating in the summer sky
Butterfly Butterfly
Butterfly, butterfly dancing all around
(hook thumbs & fly fingers up and down)
Butterfly, butterfly now you’re on the ground
(flutter fingers to the floor)
In a tree hard to see, now you’ve flown away (flutter fingers up
and behind back)
Butterfly, butterfly please come back and play
(flutter fingers to front again)
An activity to do at
home:
Colorful
Butterflies:
Say the rhyme and color the butterflies 
The first to come to
the garden bed
Is a lovely butterfly
of brilliant RED
Then in comes another
and that makes two
Fly right in my
friend of BLUE
“The garden is fine,
the best I’ve seen”
Says the butterfly of
softest GREEN
Our garden needs a
sunny fellow
Fly in butterfly with
wings of YELLOW
Little friend of
PURPLE, fly in too
The garden is waiting
for a color like you
ORANGE, orange you’ve waited so long
Fly right in where
you belong
Butterflies,
butterflies, you’re such a sight
Flying together –
what a delight!
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