Here are some fun and easy butterfly crafts to get you started.
- Origami Butterfly
- Materials
- Construction paper
- Scissors
- Markers or crayons
- Pipe cleaner or curling ribbon
- Instructions
- Make a square piece paper. To do this fold the corner of a piece of paper over
- Cut off the small rectangle from the bottom of the paper so that it now forms a square
- Keep the paper folded into the triangle shape
- Fold the triangle in half
- Open up the fold you just made
- Put the triangle on the table with the central; fold pointing up – like a tent
- Fold one corner over
- Open it up again
- Fold the other corner over
- Open it up and you should now have a butterfly shape
- Decorate the butterfly
- Attach two antennae made of pipe cleaners or curling ribbon
- Materials
- Butterfly Wand
- Materials
- Popsicle stick
- Pipe cleaner
- Cone shaped coffee filter
- Colorful markers or crayons
- Glue – since adults do all of the gluing a hot glue gun works great
- Instructions
- Glue the pipe cleaner to a popsicle stick. Only apply the glue to the top half or so of the popsicle stick.
- If using hot glue allow it to cool while children are decorating the wings. If using regular glue allow to dry completely
- Open up a cone shaped coffee filter at the seam
- Decorate the coffee filter with markers or crayons
- You want to focus on the outer parts of the coffee filter because the middle of it is going to be very crumpled
- Attach the paper to the popsicle stick with the pipe cleaner
- Bend the ends of the pipe cleaner to form antennae
- Materials
- Butterfly Window Hanging
- Materials
- Waxed paper
- Crayon shavings
- Scissors
- An iron
- Hole punch
- Few inches of string
- Instructions
- Fold a piece of waxed paper in two
- Draw half a butterfly with the body at the fold
- Flip the paper over and draw the other half of the butterfly – using your original as a template
- Open the waxed paper and put it on a flat surface
- Place some crayon shavings on the waxed paper. Inside the butterfly that you drew on the waxed paper
- Cover the waxed paper with another sheet of wax paper
- Iron the two layers of waxed paper together on low heat. To protect your iron put a paper towel on top of the waxed paper while you are ironing
- Cut out the butterfly
- Punch a hole near the top of the butterfly and tie a string to the hole
- Hang up the butterfly in a window
- Materials
- Butterfly Card
- Materials
- Construction paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Hole punch
- Glue stick
- Markers or crayons
- Glitter glue or glitter
- Instructions
- Fold two pieces of construction paper in half. This makes two card shapes.
- Place the two folded cards together, one inside the other
- Along the fold of the outside piece of paper draw half of a butterfly
- Keeping the two cards together cut along the outline that you just drew. This will give you two butterflies
- On one of the butterflies fold it in half again and draw a smaller butterfly within it
- Cut along the outline you just drew
- Use a hole punch to make a series of holes along the edges of the two pieces that you just cut
- Glue on of the pieces onto the larger uncut butterfly
- Turn the larger butterfly over and glue on the other cut piece
- Cut out a black or brown body for the butterfly
- Glue it to the inside of your butterfly
- Write a message into your card and decorate it with crayons, markers, and glitter.
- Materials
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