Decorate the Butterfly Wings A CVC Words Activity for Kindergarteners

by learningstepbystep | Apr 7, 2023 | DIY Crafts & Activities | 0 comments

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Butterflies, I believe, are liked by all children! In all my years teaching littles and now my own children, I have never met a child who did not like butterflies. So now I am even more convinced! Now that we are exploring bugs and insects on our learning journey, what better way to engage my little ones than to create an activity around a bug that they love? I created this simple journal activity for my girls to work on their blending and knowledge of CVC words.

Decorate the Butterfly Wings |A CVC Words Activity

What are CVC Words?

CVC words are the building blocks of reading and writing for kindergarteners or young children. CVC means consonant-vowel-consonant. These are the first words that our littles will read by decoding, otherwise known as sounding out.
CVC words, along with some sight words, will make up most text your little ones will encounter that makes sense to them because they are phonetic and have no tricky sounds or rules because each letter makes its phonetic sound. So your little ones can apply their letter knowledge in order to decode words which, if your child is like my girls, develops their confidence.

What you will need to recreate this simple journal activity :

Learning journal
Marker
Dot paints
Googley eyes

This activity is excellent for working on:

Letter recognition
Letter sounds
Fine mother skills
Hand-eye coordination
Blending
Concentration

How to create this simple learning journal activity:

Step 1: Draw a butterfly in your learning journal or on paper.

Step 2: Divide the thorax and abdomen of the butterfly into sections and write the word endings you would like to teach or review with your little ones into the spaces. When all the word endings are written on, use your dot markers to put a different colour dot beside each word ending.

Step 3: Use your marker to write four words that end with one of the words ending you wrote on the thorax and abdomen. I wrote one word for each word ending in each wing.

That’s it! Your simple activity is ready for your little one to complete.

How I presented this simple activity to my little ones:

Before allowing my girls to dot the words, we went through and sounded them all out.
Seeing so many words can be overwhelming, so after pronouncing all the words, we looked for all the words ending in ‘at’ together. I then allowed them to search for all four words again on their own by playing a game of I-Spy, and then I gave them the dot marker in green. The above steps were repeated for the second-word family, and then the girls were both confident to work on their own.

This activity can be recreated to work on the following skills:

Numbers
Number names
One-to-one correspondence
Sight word
Shapes
Colours

We do hope you find this activity useful.

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Thank you for being here!

Kimberlee and the Learning Step By Step Team.

CVC Word Stories On our Youtube Channel

Our word families stories will help your little ones learn to read by using their knowledge of letter sounds. When little ones learn word families, they learn numerous words that share spelling and sound patterns. In this video, your little ones will learn to read Short ‘a’ CVC words ending in ‘at’, ‘ad’, ‘am’ ‘, ap’, ‘an’, and ‘ag.’