This easy worksheet introduces first graders to butterfly and frog life cycle vocabulary through gentle practice. Part A has students trace the words egg, larva, pupa, and adult to build handwriting and word recognition. Part B offers five fill-in-the-blank sentences about how butterflies and frogs begin life. Part C finishes with three true or false questions checking whether children understand basic life cycle facts about butterflies, tadpoles, and eggs.
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Life Cycles of Animals
Part A: Trace the Words
Trace each life cycle word by following the dotted lines.
1. egg
2. larva
3. pupa
4. adult
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word on the line.
1. A butterfly starts its life as a tiny egg.
2. A caterpillar wraps itself in a chrysalis before becoming a butterfly.
3. A frog begins life as a tadpole that swims in water.
4. The stages an animal goes through as it grows are called a life cycle.
5. A baby caterpillar hatches out of its egg.
Part C: True or False
Read each sentence. Circle True or False.
1. A butterfly goes through four stages in its life cycle.
True False
2. A tadpole is a baby bird.
True False
3. All animals start life as an egg.
True False
Life Cycles of Animals
★ Part A: Trace the Words
Trace each life cycle word by following the dotted lines.
1) egg
2) larva
3) pupa
4) adult
★ Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word on the line.
1) A butterfly starts its life as a tiny egg.
2) A caterpillar wraps itself in a chrysalis before becoming a butterfly.
3) A frog begins life as a tadpole that swims in water.
4) The stages an animal goes through as it grows are called a life cycle.
5) A baby caterpillar hatches out of its egg.
★ Part C: True or False
Read each sentence. Circle True or False.
1) A butterfly goes through four stages in its life cycle.
True
False
2) A tadpole is a baby bird.
True
False
3) All animals start life as an egg.
True
False