Free from the garden
Real-photo printables from our Florida garden — free to download, print, and share with your classroom, your homeschool, or your favorite young butterfly fan. Every page is made from photographs of butterflies raised right here, never clip art.
The complete six-page pack: a kid-friendly fact sheet, a label-the-life-cycle worksheet with answer key, cut-and-order sequencing cards, a coloring page, and a butterfly observation journal — all real photos, all free.
The complete six-page pack: a kid-friendly fact sheet, a label-the-life-cycle worksheet with answer key, cut-and-order sequencing cards, a coloring page, and a butterfly observation journal — all real photos of queens raised in our garden, all free.
The complete six-page pack: a kid-friendly fact sheet, a label-the-life-cycle worksheet with answer key, cut-and-order sequencing cards, a coloring page, and a butterfly observation journal — all real photos of cloudless sulphurs from our garden, all free.
The complete six-page pack: a kid-friendly fact sheet, a label-the-life-cycle worksheet with answer key, cut-and-order sequencing cards, a coloring page, and a butterfly observation journal — all real photos of giant swallowtails from our garden, all free.
The complete six-page pack: a kid-friendly fact sheet, a label-the-life-cycle worksheet with answer key, cut-and-order sequencing cards, a coloring page, and a butterfly observation journal — all real photos of pipevine swallowtails from our garden, all free.
The complete six-page pack: a kid-friendly fact sheet, a label-the-life-cycle worksheet with answer key, cut-and-order sequencing cards, a coloring page, and a butterfly observation journal — all real photos of zebra longwings from our garden, all free.
The complete six-page pack: a kid-friendly fact sheet, a label-the-life-cycle worksheet with answer key, cut-and-order sequencing cards, a coloring page, and a butterfly observation journal — all real photos of gulf fritillaries from our garden, all free.
Just want the coloring page? Here it is on its own: a monarch traced from a real garden photo, wing veins and all. Print one for a quiet afternoon or a whole stack for your class.
For older kids ready for the real science: a two-page monarch life cycle coloring printable with the vocabulary to match — instars, chrysalis, eclosion, and the great migration — traced from our own garden photos.
Color the monarch’s mahogany cousin — white spots sprinkled across her wings — in a two-page printable made from real photos of queens raised in our garden.
Florida’s state butterfly, in bold black-and-yellow stripes: a two-page printable with a zebra longwing coloring sheet drawn from our own garden photographs.
North America’s largest butterfly, ready to color: a two-page printable built from real giant swallowtail photos — bird-dropping caterpillar disguise not included, wings very much included.
All six butterfly posters as coloring pages — Pipevine Swallowtail, Queen, Zebra Longwing, Gulf Fritillary, Giant Swallowtail, and Garden Duet — plus a cover page. Print the whole set or just your favorite.
The first four vintage botanical plates as coloring pages — Passion Vine, Milkweed, Rue & Citrus, and Pipevine — with their labels and plant notes, ready to color.
The last three plates as coloring pages — Cassia, Dill & Fennel, and Coontie — labels included, ready for your colored pencils.
Eight amazing butterfly facts, a help-butterflies box, and a quick quiz with upside-down answers — one printable page, perfect for preschool and elementary kids.
A labeled monarch diagram plus a blank labeling worksheet with a word bank — antenna, head, eye, proboscis, thorax, legs, abdomen, forewing, hindwing.
Take the plan outside with our one-page info sheet: the seasonal flower list and a host-plant strip in one pretty, printable page — perfect for the potting bench or garden gate.
The full Butterfly Coloring Collection lives in our Etsy shop — every species from the garden in one printable set, plus art prints and posters made from these same photographs.
Every printable here starts as a real butterfly in our Florida garden — and the collection keeps growing, so check back as new species hatch. The story behind the activity pack, told in four acts, is on the blog for your next read-aloud.
