Programs feature an interactive lesson and small group investigations facilitated by a Butterfly Pavilion educator, hands-on explorations with live animals and/or specimens, models and media, and curriculum-aligned content that explores science and conservation topics.

All outreach programs incur a travel fee of $0.63/mile round trip between your site and Butterfly Pavilion. Partial program scholarships may be available for qualifying groups.

Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $150/session + travel; sequential sessions discounted 25%
Group Size/Session: 30 participants/session; additional programs required for larger groups

Program Options

Itsy Bitsy Bugs – 3-1st Grade

Youngsters meet live bugs and learn about bugs they may find outside at their home or school through dramatic play and music.

Curriculum Standards Supported: 

PRE-K Living things have characteristics and basic needs 

K- Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including
humans) need to survive.   

K- Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.   

Flutterby – Age 3-1st grade

As a whole group, students reveal how butterflies and moths differ by dressing up a student or teacher and studying preserved butterflies and moths, then experience the butterfly life cycle in an active metamorphosis game. 

Curriculum Standards Supported:

PRE-K- Living things have characteristics and basic needs 

PRE-K-  Living things develop in predictable patterns 

K- Organisms can be described and sorted by their physical  characteristics 

Creepy Crawly Story Time – Age 3-3rd grade

By reading beloved stories and encountering live animals, children and families come to appreciate various invertebrates as they take on a whole new dimension as literary characters.

Curriculum Standards Supported: 

PRE-K- Living things have characteristics and basic needs 

PRE-K-   Living things develop in predictable patterns 

K- Organisms can be described and sorted by their physical characteristics 

1st – Organisms can be described and sorted by their physical  characteristics to help it survive 

2nd- Organisms depend on their habitat’s nonliving parts to  satisfy their needs 

2nd-  Each plant or animal has different structures or behaviors that serve different functions 

3rd-  The duration and timing of life cycle events such as  reproduction and longevity vary across organisms and species 

Miss Muffet Story Time – Age 3-3rd grade

Children and families will hear a classic spider story, visit with a spider puppet to learn about unique spider anatomy, and safely encounter live spiders.

Curriculum Standards Supported: 

PRE-K- Living things have characteristics and basic needs 

PRE-K-   Living things develop in predictable patterns 

K- Organisms can be described and sorted by their physical characteristics 

1st – Organisms can be described and sorted by their physical  characteristics to help it survive 

2nd- Organisms depend on their habitat’s nonliving parts to  satisfy their needs 

2nd-  Each plant or animal has different structures or behaviors that serve different functions 

3rd-  The duration and timing of life cycle events such as  reproduction and longevity vary across organisms and species 

Bug Safari – Age 3-Adult

In this presentation, guests meet invertebrates from environments around the globe, hear about their characteristics, where and how they live, and why they are important in our world.

Length: 60 minutes

Group Size/Session: 10-125 participants (children & adults)/session

Curriculum Standards Supported: 

K – Organisms can be described and sorted by their physical characteristics 

1st –   An organism is a living thing that has physical characteristics to help it survive

 2nd-  Each plant or animal has different structures or behaviors that serve different functions

 2nd-  Organisms depend on their habitat’s nonliving parts to satisfy their needs 

3rd –   The duration and timing of life cycle events such as reproduction and longevity vary across organisms and species 

4th –    All living things share similar characteristics, but they also have differences that can be described and classified

 5th –   All organisms have structures and systems with separate functions 

Afterschool Enrichment Series – PreK-6th grade

Butterfly Pavilion offers a series of engaging, play-based programs infused with science content and fun designed for youth groups, camps, childcare programs and schools working with youth K-6 after school or during school breaks. Email education@butterflies.org for more information. Curriculum-aligned to school needs.