Make Some Fluttering Butterflies
Tissue Paper Butterflies are a Great Kid's Craft and Science Project
Easy enough for preschoolers but so much fun the older kids will want to make them to - these easy to make butterflies are the perfect easy kids craft for spring.
Butterflies begin to come out in the spring but you won't have to wait for them when you make your own fluttering butterflies.
These delightful tissue paper butterflies will look wonderful hanging from a mobile, fluttering from a window or posted on the fridge. They are not only the perfect craft for spring but make a great science fair project for a younger child as well.
Make Some Fluttering Butterflies
What you need:
- Aluminum foil
- Colored tissue paper
- Sequins
- Glue
- Pipe cleaners or chenille stems
- Cardboard (the backs of old cereal boxes work great)
- Paper hole punch
- Thread
What you do:
1. On your piece of cardboard draw a butterfly pattern. Now cut it out. This will be the pattern you use to trace.
2. Next trace around your cardboard pattern onto the tissue paper. Carefully cut out your tissue paper butterfly. If you stack several sheets of tissue paper together you can cut out several butterflies at once.
3. Now trace your butterfly onto the aluminum foil. You will need one aluminum butterfly for every tissue paper one. So if you cut out five tissue paper butterflies cut five out of tin foil.
4. Place a colored tissue paper butterfly on top of an aluminum foil one. Fold in half. Punch two holes on the folded side. Make one hold close to the top of the butterfly and one hole close to the bottom. Unfold you butterfly so it is flat again.
5.Take a pipe cleaner and fold it in half, making a U shape at the folded end. This is the bottom. Insert the open ends of the pipe cleaner from the BACK of the butterfly into the two holes at the bottom. Pull the pipe cleaner through slowly.
6. Pull the pipe cleaner up and over the front of the butterfly. Now put the ends down through the top two holes.
7. Twist the ends to make a “head” leaving small bit on each end untwisted. Bend to look like antennae.
8.Glue sequins to your butterfly. Use string to hang them all around the house.
There is even more butterfly crafts here at Kids Crafts. You can color a Butterfly Coloring Page 1, make some Butterfly Dominoes and a Butterfly Go Fish Game to play with your friends. Learn about butterflies with our Butterfly Facts Rummy . Play even more fun games such as, Butterfly Rummy, Butterfly Board Game and Butterfly Lotto .
Finish the day off by making a Handprint Butterfly . It doesn't matter which fun craft you choose just be sure an pick one to do and make with your friends.
