Butterfly Dot-to-Dot Worksheet (1-16) for Kindergarten
Sixteen dots trace both pairs of a butterfly's wings in one continuous path, a longer sequence for kindergartners who are ready to count beyond fifteen.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Connect the dots: butterfly
How to use this worksheet
- Start at the large dot 1 at the top in the middle, where the wings meet.
- Dots 2 to 8 outline the two left wings; 9 sits at the bottom in the center.
- Dots 10 to 16 go around the right wings, which mirror the left ones, and the last line runs from 16 back to 1.
What this worksheet teaches
The butterfly asks a child to follow sixteen numbers and to go into the middle of the picture twice: at dot 5 the line comes in to the body between the upper and lower left wings, and at 13 it does the same on the right. Because the numbers do not simply run around the edge, the child must read each numeral instead of guessing by position, the same attention to order that later helps with number lines and counting on. The mirror-image wings also give a natural first look at symmetry.
Variation to try
Make it a symmetry game. After the outline is done, your child designs a pattern on one wing, spots, stripes or hearts, and then copies exactly the same pattern onto the opposite wing. Finish with a body down the middle and two antennae.