Paper Plate Butterflies

We went to our local Shopping Centre this week and made Paper Plate animals with the kids.  They all enjoyed making the butterflies, especially punching the holes and covering with cellophane.

What you will need: Paper plate, pieces of coloured/textured paper, Pop stick, hole punch, cellophane, glue, sticky tape.

What you will need to do: Cut the paper plate into quarters. Using two of the quarters sticky tape them together, making the butterfly wings. Use the glue to attach the pop stick to the wings.  Punch holes in the wings using the hole punch.  Glue cellophane over the holes (on the back side).  Using pieces of coloured paper or card, alfoil, tissue paper etc, decorate your butterfly.

 

 

You may also like Paper Plate Snakes, Paper Plate Frogs, Paper Plate Lions, Paper Plate Frogs and our Craft Butterfly collection: Paper (Magaine) Butterflies, Popstick Butterflies, Stencil Drawing Butterflies, Papertowel Butterflies.

Butterfly Stencil Drawing

Butterfly Stencil Drawing

What you will need: Butchers paper (any paper will do), felt pens, butterfly stencils.

What you will need to do: Using the felt pens trace around the butterfly stencils creating a beautiful picture.

 

You may also like Paper (Magazine) Butterflies, Popstick Butterflies, Papertowel Butterflies, Paperplate Butterflies.

Papertowel Butterflies

Papertowel Butterflies (my favourite)

What you will need: Paper Towel, 4 x bowls, 1/2 cup water, food colouring, a pipe cleaner cut in half.

What you will need to do: Lay out the four bowls and distribute the water evenly. Add 2 - 3 drops of different food colouring to each bowl and mix with water.

Fold your paper towel square into a small square (4 folds). Dip each corner of the paper towel square into the coloured water.

Unfold the paper towel and allow to dry.


Once dry, concertina fold the squre (on diagonal) and wrap a pipe cleaner around, leaving enough at the top for two antenna.

You may also like Paper (Magazine) Butterflies, Popstick Butterflies, Butterfly Stencil Drawing and Paperplate Butterflies.

Popstick Butterflies

After making our Paper (Magazine) Butterflies, we decided to research other ways to make butterflies.  Here are our Popstick Butterflies. 

Popstick Butterflies

What you will need: Pop Stick, craft paper, glitter, glue, round stickers.

What you will need to do: Cut a shape of butterfly wings from the craft paper. Make two small slits at the top of the butterfly. Insert the pop stick into the slits. Decorate your butterfly using the glitter and stickers. Instead of stickers you could decorate with felt pens or pencils. As an extension to this, you could use a pencil or biro instead of the pop stick and give as a gift to someone special!

Paper (Magazine) Butterflies

We were reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar the other day and I remembered making paper butterflies when I was a child. It's an easy craft project using everyday things from our craft box (a magazine and a pipe cleaner). So we got everything out and Lucas loved making it!

Because we had so much fun I looked into other ways to make butterflies. See my other posts on making Popstick Butterflies, Papertowel Butterflies, Butterfly Stencil Drawing and Paper Plate Butterflies.

Paper (Magazine) Butterflies
 


What you will need: An old magazine and a pipe cleaner cut in half.

What you will need to do: Choose two colourful pages from a magazine and tear out. Cut into squares (one larger then the other). Concertina fold (on the diagonal) each square. Place the two folded squares on top of one another and pinch in the middle. Wrap a pipe cleaner around, leaving enough at the top for two antenna.