Free Butterfly Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)

My daughter and I love to create Montessori-inspired printables for you! Today, I have a free butterfly do-a-dot printable to go with my other butterfly-themed printables and activities. It’s an instant download … super simple!

Montessori-Inspired Printables at Living Montessori Now

My daughter, Christina (a former Montessori child), and I are partnering to bring you a series of Montessori-inspired printables. The printables are typically themed and use a number of Montessori principles (although you don’t need to be a Montessori teacher or homeschooler to use them):

• They use isolation of quality.
• They use photographs or realistic images to emphasize reality. Whenever I can, I’ll tell you the name of the animal or object featured. In the credits page of this printable, you’ll see that this is a zebra longwing butterfly, which you can teach to your child. Preschoolers love to learn proper terminology, so you don’t need to just say this is a butterfly.
• They typically use traditional Montessori colors such as red for consonants and blue for vowels.
• They use lowercase letters, which are what we introduce letter sounds with in Montessori education. (Children tend to pick up the uppercase letters without being introduced if they’re introduced to the lowercase letter sounds.)
• They often feature themed printable versions of Montessori materials.

Free Butterfly Do-a-Dot Printable

 

To download, click here and then click on the file image in the upper right corner of the PDF to save to your computer (just choose where you want it saved).

Montessori-Inspired Activities Using the Butterfly Do-a-Dot Printable

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Butterfly Do-a-Dot Tray with Pom Poms

Pom poms are fun with do-a-dot printables and provide a great fine-motor activity. Right now, I have this tray on our shelves for my 2-year-old granddaughter, Zoey. You can use a variety of tools for transfer activities, such as quick sticks, sugar tongs, or toast tongs (what’s pictured). I used a wooden Multicraft tray for the activity.

You can add erasable crayons or markers to a laminated page for preschoolers to work on tracing skills. Because Zoey is just 2 years old, I don’t have her trace letters or numbers except with her fingers. So that’s why I don’t have a writing instrument on the tray. Check out my frog do-a-dot printable post for ideas of trays with tracing activities included.

Zoey loves using tools like quick sticks or toast tongs to transfer pom poms. She’s proud of the fine-motor skills she’s developed, and I love that this work increases her attention span and fine-motor skills along with being a fun way to reinforce letter sounds.

If you want to know how to introduce the letter sound for b, check out my post on how to teach letter sounds using Montessori principles.

Free Butterfly Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)

Your child or students can learn the names of four butterflies while working on cutting skills with our free butterfly cutting strips!

Butterfly Exercise for Kids {Free Printable}

Christina has a free printable butterfly fitness activity and dice counting game at Fit Body Full Life. It’s also a Montessori-inspired instant download! And you’ll find a sweet video with Zoey demonstrating the activity along with ideas for using the exercise for a variety of ages.

Montessori-Inspired Packs – Subscriber Freebies

 

Don’t miss our themed monthly packs! You’ll get  the link and password for the Living Montessori Now subscriber library with the current pack and all the past monthly packs if you subscribe to the Living Montessori Now weekly newsletter!

Free Do-a-Dot Printables and Ideas for Using Them

I love the versatility of do-a-dot printables! If you’re doing a month-long theme, you could easily change out the type of do-a-dot activity weekly to add interest. Here are four ideas of hands-on activities for any of our do-a-dot printables from my frog do-a-dot printable post (see post for details and materials used).

Just click on an image to go to the post with the related free printable!

Note: I’ve arranged the following gallery in alphabetical order, although some posts have two do-a-dot printables (and two different letters). You’ll find at least one free do-a-dot printable for each letter of the alphabet!

Also, I don’t introduce letters in alphabetical order. You can find out the order in which I introduce letter sounds here. I deviate from that order for our unit studies, though, and focus on a letter that’s simply related to our unit. That’s in addition to our other letter work.

You can see all our free do-a-dot printables with the latest at the top here.

For complete themed alphabet do-a-dot packs, see our Animal Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack, Spanish Animal Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack, and Healthy Food Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack available for purchase in the Living Montessori Now shop.

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