Numerous caterpillars swarm in the school garden, in the hedges and the surrounding fields and gardens. Children have some knowledge or bookish or “encyclopedic” representations about caterpillars, not always accurate.
From observation of these caterpillars, this page offers you the collection of caterpillar coloring pictures to print. Choose the images you like then color them with your favorite colors. Have fun.
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When a male and a female butterfly meet, they can reproduce. The female lays eggs. When they hatch, a small caterpillar emerges from each egg. Each caterpillar is a larva that feeds slowly, growing through successive molts.
Then this larva turns into a pupa from which a butterfly will emerge: this is the metamorphosis. There are various species of butterflies. The appearance of the caterpillar in its details is characteristic of each species.
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However, there are common points between the different caterpillars; the body is made up of three parts as in all insects, the head, the thorax, and the abdomen: there are three pairs of real (thin) legs on the thorax and false (thick) legs on the stomach that help to crawl.
Children’s questions were often based on the restitution of knowledge acquired from various sources, rather than on observation, which resulted in representations that were sometimes quite far removed from reality.
Caterpillar Coloring Pages To Print
For example, a third-grader had understood that the caterpillar became a butterfly and that the butterfly laid eggs that became caterpillars to produce butterflies.
If he was able to represent the cycle well, he was so convinced that it was a cycle that he could not conceive that the caterpillar of the next period was not the caterpillar of the previous cycle.
For him, it was always the same caterpillar that was between two butterflies. The idea was to go beyond the knowledge of books or transmitted knowledge by regularly observing caterpillars and their transformations. While at the same time reading the many books in the various collections that talk about butterflies and caterpillars.