Youth Outreach Programs
No bus? No problem! Butterfly Pavilion can bring a program directly to your school or community site.
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.

Scholarships
Butterfly Pavilion offers scholarships to Title 1 schools or other groups with students qualifying for the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch (FRL) program. To qualify, please indicate what percentage FRL your group is and if you would like a scholarship on the registration form for your program. Schools with 75% or more students on Free and reduced lunch program = Up to 100% scholarship support Schools with 50% or more students on Free and reduced lunch program = Up to 75% scholarship support Schools with 25% or more students on Free and reduced lunch program = Up to 50% scholarship support Additonally, scholarships are available for reduced bus transportation costs and substitute teacher coverage. For more info please inquire at Education@butterflies.org.
Scholarships