The butterfly finger play

Hi everyone. Yesterday in class, our teacher gave us some stories for pre-schoolers to practice the storytelling. My story was “The Butterfly finger play”, that is a story about the life cycle of a butterfly. It´s not too long (5 minutes) and it´s very funny because children learn the life cycle of a butterfly through a finger play. This story is recommended for children 4-7 years old. It doesn´t need materials, only our hands and fingers.

Here I leave you the story with the gestures. I hope you like it and you work it with your students.  

This butterfly is going to lay an egg…

here on this leaf.

 

Where is your egg? 

Here is the egg.

 Can you see? The egg is opening

Here is a caterpillar!

 Look! The caterpillar eats the egg.

Eat the egg of the leaf, everyone. Now the caterpillar is eating the leaf. 

Yum, yum, yum.  

Now the caterpillar is eating another leaf

Yum, yum, yum.  

The caterpillar is eating another leaf… and another! Yum, yum, yum. 

Now the caterpillar is very full. 

The caterpillar is climbing a tree.

Look the caterpillar is making a cocoon. 

The caterpillar is inside the cocoon, It’s very sleepy. 

But look! It´s moving 

And here is a beautiful butterfly. 

Fly, butterfly, fly!