2015 Update: This page has had dead links removed and I’m now looking for new ones to replace them.
Crafts and Activities
Activity Village – Butterflies
An excellent set of templates for mobiles, colouring or matching activvities. We coloured ours, stuck them to lollipops and flew them round the garden!
A really nice colouring page of a cartoon bee!
10 great craft ideas to get your started on a butterfly project.
Information Sites
Enchanted Learning – All About Butterflies
They do it again! A 300+entry dictionary of different butterflies, printables, life cycles, colouring, books to download – you name it – its here!
Online articles, a club to join if you wish (at a price), and an absolutely fabulous BUG ID for identifying the thing you found in the garden!
BugBios
This seems to be a massive site of information, more suited to an older child or a frazzled parent who keeps getting asked “why?”
Gardening etc with Butterflies in Mind!
This is kind of a commercial website and I admit I am not sure about buying butterflies to release at functions, but I liked the gardening pointers and the links at the bottom, which I have only briefly checked out so far.
A different site to the above but also very similar!
Places to Visit
Get in touch and suggest your favourite butterfly farms 🙂