This is a great art project for spring, as Monarchs arrive to pollinate North American gardens, or for Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when the Monarch’s arrival to Mexico is symbolically important. Students learn to draw a Monarch butterfly using a direct-drawing tutorial and paint it with tempera. The primary focus of this project is to learn about vertical symmetry, and this will be reflected in each step of drawing and painting the butterfly. There is a fun component, too, as students are intr