🦋 ASL Butterfly Describe & Draw Activities
Signed Directions • Partner Communication • Classifier & Shape Describing Practice

Engage your students in American Sign Language (ASL) practice with this interactive butterfly-themed Describe & Draw activity packet! This resource is designed to strengthen both receptive and expressive signing skills through whole group instruction, partner communication, and center-based learning.

Students follow signed directions to complete butterfly wing designs, describe shapes, colors, and visual patterns, and communicate spatial details with peers. The butterfly designs specifically target shape vocabulary and classifier-based descriptions, helping students practice describing visual information using ASL.

Multiple activity formats are included to support differentiation and flexible classroom implementation.

How It Works

Whole Group: Teachers sign butterfly designs while students follow directions to complete their worksheets.

Partner Activities: Students design butterfly wings and sign directions for their partner to recreate.

Centers & Small Groups: Task cards and blank design templates provide extended communication and receptive practice.

Skills Targeted

• Receptive ASL comprehension
• Expressive descriptive signing
• Shape vocabulary in ASL
• Classifier and visual description practice
• Color recognition and color vocabulary
• Spatial language (top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right)
• Describing positions and locations of objects
• Visual attention and detail recognition
• Turn-taking and partner communication

What’s Included

• 4-Design Whole Group Butterfly Worksheet
• 6-Design Whole Group Butterfly Worksheet (Differentiated Option)
• Teacher Reference Guide for Butterfly Designs
• Partner Worksheets (1-Design & 2-Design Formats)
• Butterfly Design Task Cards (16 Unique Designs)
• Blank Butterfly Design Cards for Student-Created Prompts
• Teacher’s Guide with Objectives & Skills Targeted
• “How to Use This Resource” Implementation Ideas Page

Differentiation

This resource includes multiple formats to support a range of ASL skill levels:

• 4 vs. 6 design receptive worksheets
• One or two partner design exchanges
• Simple to complex task card prompts
• Student-created design extensions

Appropriate for ASL Levels 1–3, with built-in extensions for more advanced learners.

This resource is included in myASL Seasonal & Holiday Describe & Draw: GROWING BUNDLE. Purchase the bundle to save and receive future additions!

BONUS RESOURCE:
This butterfly Describe & Draw activity is also included as a bonus file in the ASL Spring Mega Bundle. If you already own the Spring Mega Bundle, you already have access to this resource!

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ASL Spring Bundles

• ASL Spring Mega Bundle (included as a BONUS FILE!)
• ASL Spring Mini Activity Bundle
• ASL Spring Conversation Grid & Question Strips Bundle (Level 1 & 2)

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