Life cycle of a praying mantis insect foldable sequencing activity cut and paste

Explore the life cycle of the praying mantis with this foldable sequencing activity and other printables. A fun alternative to a worksheet, your pupils will love creating their foldouts to show the life cycle stages from egg case to adult insect.

Use this 14-page PDF resource to support a science lesson on insect life cycles, incomplete metamorphosis, or praying mantises.

What’s included?

• Differentiated templates to make a foldout life cycle (see the next section for more information)
• Full-page praying mantis life cycle diagram (colour)
• Praying mantis life cycle information page (colour and b/w)
• Praying mantis life cycle writing page (colour and b/w).
• Label the praying mantis worksheet and answer page
• Praying mantis flip book template (colour and b/w). The tabs of the flipbook have been deliberately left blank for students to write their own titles on (e.g. diet, habitat, facts, features). Pupils will need to do some of their own research for this activity.

The foldout templates

• Template 1: Children colour the template and 4 life cycle stages (egg case, newly hatched nymphs, older nymph, adult praying mantis). They put the stages in order, glue, cut and fold. There’s an option to sequence the stage names or descriptions.
• Template 2: As above but with 5 stages (soft egg case, hardened egg case, newly hatched nymphs, older nymph, adult praying mantis).

Can the resource be edited?
This PDF resource is not editable.