This butterfly craft is so fun and it's super easy to make! Kids of all ages will love watching the paper butterfly flap its wings just like a real butterfly. The mechanics of the moving wings also add a fun lesson in engineering, making it a great STEAM project. Butterfly Craft We used drinking straws to create the moving wings of our butterflies. It's SO COOL how the butterfly flaps its wings. It really looks like it's flying! This butterfly craft is the perfect activity to go along with a butterfly or insect lesson at school. It's also a great spring
Take the kids on a nature walk and collect leaves to make this gorgeous leaf butterfly! Kids will love painting leaves to reveal the wings.
Free printable template included to make your own butterfly life cycle craft! You only need paper, cardboard and glue to make this easy craft!
Don't you love simple crafts!? These pipe cleaner butterfly rings are so pretty and they're really easy to make. Pipe cleaner crafts are so much fun, especially when you can make something really awesome in less than 5 minutes using nothing but 2 and a half pipe cleaners! You don't need any glue, and you don't need any fancy supplies. Just pipe cleaners and a pair of scissors. This is such an awesome low mess craft for kids... and tweens, and teens, and adults... it's pretty great for all ages! These pipe cleaner butterflies are Part 2 in our pipe
Spring is the time for butterflies and if you are looking for a fun after school (or school) activity, why not make these butterfly paper bracelets for kids! We have a printable template ready (along
Find and explore butterfly craft ideas and techniques in this article and tell us which one suits you the most for your child.
Make a gorgeous yarn butterfly craft for Spring using this simple weaving technique. The finished yarn butterflies look so pretty!
This beautiful Butterfly Suncatcher Craft is a simple and easy outdoor summer craft for kids the whole family will enjoy making as well!
Make flapping butterfly peg automata to wow the kids, with this quick and easy craft! All you need is some card or paper, and a peg...
I fall in love with this stunning Butterfly Chandelier Mobile every time I look at it. It is not only a cute product, but it would make for a great
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Here is a beautiful Spring themed Paper Craft: 3D Butterflies with Scandinavian Folk Art Feel to color and craft. With templates and how to.
Make some charming Paper Butterflies Crafts with a free printable and tutorial. This is such a special project that would make a lovely gift.
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This Rainbow Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly is the perfect craft for spring! Show kids that art can be created using simple supplies!
Celebrate the Pagan sabbat of Litha with 35 fantastic Summer Solstice crafts, DIY projects, and home decor ideas, plus Litha correspondences.
Check out this easy butterfly craft for kids! Using just a few cheap craft supplies (hello Amazon), kids can paint butterflies with tissue paper! What a fun idea! These beautiful painted paper butterflies are made even easier with our free butterfly printable. This may be the perfect craft idea for spring and summer!
Let's learn about the life cycle of a butterfly with this engaging butterfly life cycle paper toy flextangle. This paper craft template covers 4 stages of the cycle - the butterfly, eggs, caterpillar and cocoon.
Why make an artificial butterfly out of wood and plastic? Researchers think it can shed light on the mechanics of butterfly flight.
Have you made a weaving board before? Nature weaving is of the easiest crafts because you can use any cardboard that you already have along with flowers from your garden. We are currently raising Monarchs this season from egg to butterfly to study their life cycle, so naturally we had to add in a few
Butterfly is a cuddle in baby alpaca, the body is particularly wide and can therefore be suitable for every body shape. The delicate vertical stripe pattern makes it refined and fun to work with. Is a top down work with raglan sleeves, without any seams.
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Toilet paper rolls are maybe my favorite go-to craft material. The creative possibilities are endless. So if you’re ready to create something awesome, don’t throw away those paper rolls too fast! I created a list of fun and unique toilet paper roll craft ideas. Perfect for a fun crafty afternoon that will keep you and
I love butterfly crafts, and this is a very straightforward one. A great excuse to use lots of bright colours too! You will need: Toilet paper rolls Paints (we used bottles of poster paints) Scissors Pencil Pipe cleaner 1. Paint your tubes first. To get a really nice mix of bright colours, put two or three blobs of colours that work well together on different plates (ones that don't make sludgy brown when mixed!). Like yellow and red, blue and white, or blue and yellow, green and yellow, yellow and pink, or blue, pink and white. White added to any of these colour combos looks great. We had some ready mixed purple too, which looked lovely with the pink and the blue. This is a great way for kids to experiment with colour mixing, using a simple palette of complementary colours. Give them a big brush to paint with (we often use a pastry brush) - this helps with the mixing and with speed.. and then let them loose! We painted the inside of the tubes as well, but you really don't need to. Works just as well without. Mixing up the complementary colours gives a lovely marbly or sort of tie-dye effect. But if you wanted to do stripes of colours instead, or add some dots, that's totally up to you! 2. When the paint is dry, flatten a tube with your hand and press along the creases, so it's easier to draw on. 3. Use a pencil to mark the outline of your butterfly - for the butterfly body, mark about 3cm/1in along the crease, on the left-hand-side. To get the proportions of the top and bottom wings right, we drew this body line a little closer to the bottom of the tube than the top. (As a guide, our TP roll was about 10cm, the body line starts 4cm from the top of the tube, and finishes roughly 3cm from the bottom of the tube. Draw a curved line from the top of the body line to the top right-hand corner. Make a pencil mark halfway down the body line on the LHS. Draw a straight line from the right-hand edge towards this mark, but leave a gap (of about 2cm). From the end of this line in the centre of the tube, draw a big curve down to the bottom right-hand corner. Then, from the bottom of the body line on the LHS, draw another sweeping curve towards the same corner, but for fuller bottom wings, don't take this line right to the corner, stop a little before. See photo below. 4. Cut out your butterfly, cutting through the doubled-over card. With the middle section, it's easier if you cut along the straight line first, then cut along the curve below, starting at the bottom right-hand corner. 5. Cut away a little sliver of the top wing crease. Cut it at a slight angle. See below. Don't cut off too much! 6. Open up your butterfly. The natural curve of the tube makes a lovely shape. 7. Bend a pipe-cleaner in half and hook it around the middle of your butterfly. Twist the two pieces together to fasten, then wrap one tightly around the other, to make a head. When you're happy, decide how long you want the antennae to be and trim the pipe-cleaners, allowing a little extra if you want to bend over the pointy tips so they're not so sharp. Bend into shape. 8. We made so many butterflies we needed somewhere to put them! So we painted some old cardboard packaging brown (you could leave it its natural colour) and cut out a tree trunk and some branches. We glued them all onto some brown wrapping paper with pva craft glue. But didn't stick down the very ends of the branches, so they stuck out a bit. Then attach a paper clip to the pipe-cleaner on the underside of a butterfly and clip this onto the end of a branch. If you don't want to be able to remove them, you could of course glue the butterflies onto the tree.
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This 3D Butterfly Free Knitting Pattern is a cute applique that you can use decoratively as well. Make one now with the free pattern provided by the link below.
Montreal-based fashion designer and creative Raku Inoue (previously) continues his Natura Insects series with a focus on brilliantly colored moths and butterflies. The delicate insects were created from seasonal leaves and blooms, with pastel petals and green leaves composing those made in late summer, and warmer tones and brown leaves forming the works made in mid-fall. The artist learned the importance of utilizing seasonal materials while studying the art of Ikebana—the Japanese art of floral arrangement. More
Hello my dear friends, I am sure there are many tutorials out there on how to make an origami butterfly but I thought I would put a short tutorial together to share with you on how I made mine. The nice thing about this butterfly is that you should have everything right there with you that you will need to make these lovely fluttering creatures. Beautiful paper butterflies! You will need the following: ~ Paper of your choice (nothing too thin or brittle) ~ Scissors ~ Ruler ~ Pencil ~ Ink pad (color of you choice) ~ Glue ~ Thin wire ~ Wire nose pliers So, let's start ... Choose the size you would like your square to be, mark it out on your paper and cut it out. I like to make cardboard templates when I am wanting to make more than one of something. I used 3,4 and 5 inch squars for my butterflies. Now start folding your paper as follows ... Fold your paper in half both ways. Then fold your paper diagonally both ways. Now fold the center folds inwards to make a big triangle that is open at the bottom ... ... like this. Next fold the top layer upwards towards the top. This is what your paper should look like at this stage. Next turn your paper over. Now fold the corner of the solid piece upwards over the edge ... ... like this. Flatten the center only ~ not the edges! Fold the little triangle forward and over ... ... glue it down with a dab of glue. Normally you wouldn't use glue in origami but I think it is needed because of the wire you will place there for the feelers. Since you are done with folding your butterfly you can now ink the edges if you wish to do so. Cut a piece of wire for the feelers. The length depends on the size of butterfly that you have made and on what you like. I use a 4 inch piece of wire for a 4 inch square of paper. Bend the wire in half and with a pair of nose tip pliers squeeze the bend tightly together and curl the tips. Next step is with the little triangle facing inwards ... ...pinch your butterfly together and flatten the crease. Now your butterfly has it's shape. Last but not least dip you feelers into glue and glue onto the tiny triangle. All that is leftover to do is to find a place for you fluttering creature and enjoy it!! I hope the instructions to this tutorial are written well enough for you to use and understand. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me and ask. I work very hard and try to take many photos and write my tutorials as good as I can for you even when I have two very lovable and nosey cats in between glue, scissors and other creating bits and pieces. I hope you are well and life is treating you kind. Have a peaceful and creative day. Karen B.
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Learn about magnetic force with this simple magnet experiment! You only need a paper clip, tissue paper, string and a magnet to do it!
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We have a ton of these maple seeds or “helicopters” in our yard, now I know just what to do with them. See the full how-to from Church Street Designs.
Hello there, beautiful people! Today's collection of DIY tutorials is inspired by mother nature and her miraculous creations. Aren't butterflies simply amazing?
These coffee filter butterflies are such a classic craft! I love how easy they are to make and how the bright colours of the Mr. Sketch markers blend together to make gorgeous looking butterfly wings! (Don't worry, you can use regular washable markers too). Do you remember Mr. Sketch markers from when you were a kid? I was walking down the craft aisle at Walmart last year and saw them on display -- I was so excited to see that they still make them! I opened up the package, took the lid off of one of the markers and smelled
Learn how to make a pretty origami butterfly with printable templates. Print, color, and watch the video to learn how to fold it!
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