Color by Number Butterfly

Q: How do I print the four life cycle worksheets?

One at a time. Open More options, choose the Egg on a milkweed leaf under Pictures and press Print this sheet. Then do the same for the Monarch caterpillar, the Chrysalis and the Monarch.

Color by number: Blue morpho

Color each square by its number. Squares with no number stay white.

111111

1222112221

122223322221

1222332221

1122332211

122223322221

1222112221

111111

To color on screen, choose a color in the key, then tap the squares.

How it works

This color by number butterfly set opens on a Blue morpho, with a Brimstone, a Peacock butterfly and a Luna moth beside it. Four more pictures follow one monarch: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult.

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Three butterflies and a moth, told apart by color

The Blue morpho opens the page: 112 squares on the easy grid in blue, black and brown. The Brimstone is yellow with orange spots, the Peacock butterfly is red with four eyespots and the Luna moth is green with two long tails.

A monarch's life in four sheets

Under Pictures in More options the last four run in order: the Egg on a milkweed leaf, the Monarch caterpillar, the Chrysalis and the Monarch. Printed at one size, the four sheets make a life cycle strip for a science unit. Choose Detailed 24 by 24 and the Monarch grows to 376 squares, 234 of them black.

Butterfly color by number printable: the easy Monarch needs only 2 crayons, orange and black, the fewest here.
The Monarch caterpillar's white bands and the Luna moth's white body print empty: leave them as paper.
The egg is drawn yellow so it shows on the leaf; a real monarch egg is cream or light green.

Questions and answers

What are the four stages of a butterfly's life?

Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult. Four pictures here show them for a monarch: an egg on a milkweed leaf, the banded caterpillar, the green chrysalis and the orange and black butterfly.

What colors is a monarch butterfly?

Orange, with black veins and black edges that hold small white spots. The easy Monarch uses orange and black only. The detailed Monarch leaves the white spots as empty squares inside the black.

Is a luna moth a butterfly?

No. It is a moth, one of the giant silk moths, with lime green wings, a white body and long tails on its hindwings. It is in this set because its wings color in like the butterflies'.

How do I print the four life cycle worksheets?

One at a time. Open More options, choose the Egg on a milkweed leaf under Pictures and press Print this sheet. Then do the same for the Monarch caterpillar, the Chrysalis and the Monarch.

All 8 pictures

Butterflies and a moth 4

Blue morpho A blue morpho with its wings open: bright blue with black edges and a brown body. On the detailed grid each wing has a light blue patch and small white spots in its black edge. Easy: 3 colors, 112 squares to color. Detailed: 4 colors, 372 squares to color.
Brimstone A yellow brimstone with one orange spot on each wing. On the easy grid it is seen from above with its wings open, four wings with pointed tips beside a black body. On the detailed grid it is seen from the side with its wings closed, sitting on a purple flower with pink dots, and the wings have light green veins. The male is the yellow one; the female is greenish white. Easy: 3 colors, 98 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 249 squares to color.
Luna moth A luna moth, which is a moth and not a butterfly: green wings with a yellow eyespot on each, two long tails and a white body left as paper. The dark front edge of the forewings is drawn purple and the antennae yellow. On the detailed grid the wings are light green with a green edge. Easy: 3 colors, 82 squares to color. Detailed: 4 colors, 314 squares to color.
Peacock butterfly A peacock butterfly with its wings open: red, with an eyespot in blue and yellow near the tip of each of its four wings. On the detailed grid each eyespot has a black center, the wings have a black edge and the body is brown. Easy: 4 colors, 102 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 368 squares to color.

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A monarch's life 4

Chrysalis A green monarch chrysalis hanging from a brown twig by a black stalk, with a yellow band near the top. On the detailed grid it is light green with a darker side, the band is black over a row of yellow dots, and four yellow dots sit lower down, for the gold rim and golden dots of the real one. Easy: 4 colors, 66 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 240 squares to color.
Egg on a milkweed leaf A green milkweed leaf on a brown stem with one monarch egg on it. A monarch attaches its eggs to milkweed, the plant its caterpillars eat. The egg is drawn yellow; a real one is cream or light green. On the detailed grid the leaf has light green veins and a pink flower head tops the stem. Easy: 3 colors, 73 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 250 squares to color.
Monarch A monarch with its wings open: orange with black veins and black edges. On the detailed grid the black edges hold small white spots, left as paper, and a pink flower head sits below the butterfly. Easy: 2 colors, 94 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 376 squares to color.
Monarch caterpillar A monarch caterpillar in bands of yellow, black and white on a green leaf, with a pair of black tentacles at each end. The white bands are left as paper. On the detailed grid the leaf has a light green rib and a bite out of one corner. Easy: 3 colors, 82 squares to color. Detailed: 4 colors, 283 squares to color.

How this list was compiled: Our own pixel pictures, drawn square by square for this site on 12 by 12 and 24 by 24 grids in October 2026. Nothing is traced, scanned or copied from clip art. The wing colors and the stages of a monarch's life were checked in the Wikipedia article on each species, read on 2 October 2026. The color and square counts in each description were counted from the finished grids. Licence: own work