1. By TeachEzy @ teachezy.com This is an animated slideshow for the butterfly life cycle BUT you will need Office 2016 or Office 365 for the ANIMATIONS to work correctly. FREE RESOURCE

2. A female butterfly lays her eggs on a leaf or stem of a plant. A caterpillar grows inside this egg.

3. When it is ready to hatch, out pops a caterpillar.

4. Caterpillars are hungry and eat the leaves, grow fatter, shed their skin and grow again. This can happen 4 or 5 times as they grow bigger and bigger.

5. Once caterpillars are big enough, they form into a chrysalis (or pupa). This protects the caterpillar while it changes into a…

6. …BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY! The chrysalis splits open and the butterfly is released. They wait for their wings to dry before they fly.

7. Butterflies fly, eat and grow. They search for a mate and then the cycle begins again when a female butterfly lays her eggs on a leaf or stem of a plant.