Adding & Counting
Butterfly Sums
Materials Needed: One page of four butterflies
outlined.
Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to have the children make enough dots
on each wing to equal the same sum on each.
Description of Activity: Give each child a page with four butterflies on it. The
butterflies should be outlined and show only a blank wing. The child will then
put dots on each wing on each butterfly. (Different amount of dots for each
butterfly wing). The wings on each butterfly, combined should all equal ONE sum.
(Example: 1 + 7 = 8, 2 + 6 = 8, 3 + 5 = 8, 4 + 4 = 8) Each butterfly should look
different. There might be two dots on one wing, and four dots on the other. This
would make the sum six. Depending on what sum is to be used is how many dots
should be on each butterfly wing.