Help your students practice writing addition and subtraction sentences in a fact family by creating colorful butterflies. This is a fun and engaging craft that gives students chances to solve for missing numbers, identify the whole number and parts, and write subtraction and addition equations using a set of numbers.

This printable, differentiated craft includes:

• A number bond and equations page differentiated with symbols or missing symbols. Further differentiate by giving students two numbers in their number bond and challenge them to find the missing number
• Butterfly bodies with fact family numbers already written, blank bodies, and bodies with a space to write your own numbers
• Butterfly wings print on to colored cardstock for bright butterflies, or onto white paper for students to color
• Butterfly wing spots with spaces for students to write the addition and subtraction equations that match the numbers. Differentiated with symbols or missing symbols

This is a great project before or after spring break and looks great hanging on a bulletin board or up in the hallway!