Paper Butterflies web site provides butterfly and moth coloring pictures, facts, color book drawings, resourceful information links, and free, accurately illustrated, black and white coloring pages of about 100 different butterfly and moth types for young children to print and color.
Parents and teachers may use these butterfly and moth images for creating lesson plans and other educational purposes. The illustrations in Paper Butterflies for Children web site are based upon photographs of actual butterflies and moths currently on display in museums and in historical reference material. These images are artist renditions, however, and are definitely not intended to be scientifically accurate or drawn to scale representations.
Purpose of this site is to provide a brief introduction for butterfly arts and craft activities for preschool children in the hopes of piquing the interest of young children into investigating further into the natural science of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera).
Butterflies and moths are classified under the scientific name "Lepidoptera." Pronunciation Leh-pih-DOP-ter-ra.
The super family for true butterflies is called: Papilionoidea. There are three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies. Over 180,000 species of Lepidoptera have been discovered in 128 families and 47 superfamilies.
Paper Butterflies design patterns may also be used for non-commercial, non-profit crochet, embroidery, latch-hook rugs, wood work , decorations, ornaments, and other educational or personal art projects.
There are many external links throughout Paper Butterflies pages that open new windows to online sources and photos. For quality indepth studies of the Lepidoptera subject matter, please refer to the references page for more expert resources.
