Today we have an easy and fun butterfly craft for kids. Kids of all ages, younger kids and older kids, will have a blast making a butterfly using very simple craft supplies. This is a budget-friendly craft that can be used also as a spring craft or bug craft. Make this butterfly craft at home or in the classroom!
Butterfly Craft
Butterflies are awesome! Let’s be honest, they turn from a caterpillar, which isn’t always cute, and turn into something beautiful. And since spring is nearly here, let’s make cute butterflies.
This butterfly craft is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, even kindergarten kids. This easy craft is budget-friendly only using simple craft supplies that you may already have on hand. So without further ado, let’s make butterflies!
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Related: Explore the lifecycle of a butterfly!
Supplies Needed To Make This Butterfly Craft
- White Plastic Spoon (Or if you already have clear spoons, white paint)
- Construction Paper (We used blue, purple, pink, white, red)
- Scissors
- Zig Zag Scissors
- Glue Stick
- Hot Glue or Craft Glue
- Permanent Marker
How To Make This Simple Butterfly Craft
Step 1
Draw a face on your white spoon. We opted with a smiley face.
Step 2
Cut out a heart using your zig zag scissors. It needs to be the largest of the 4. The easiest way to do this is fold your paper in half and cut a half heart out of it. When you open it up it’ll be a whole heart.
Use the cutout as a stencil to draw the same size heart and cut it out.
Do this with the purple paper using regular scissors. Glue it on the blue heart.
Then the pink paper. Glue it on the purple heart.
Then the white paper using the zig zag scissors. Glue it on the pink heart.
Finally, cut out a small heart with the red paper. Glue it on the white heart.
Step 4
Glue the wings onto the spoon.
Step 5
Cut down pipe cleaners and glue them on, curling them as antennas. Now you have a simple butterfly!
How To Make This Butterfly Craft Your Own
Just like all our crafts you can make this butterfly craft your own. You can do stuff like:
- Use googly eyes
- Use stickers to make the face
- Make the face using different colored markers
- Paint the spoon a different color
- Use different textured scissors
- Decorate the butterfly wings with stickers
Our Experience With This Butterfly Craft
Where we live, spring is here. I know that’s not the case in many places, but we are already quite warm. And as such, it felt right to bust out some spring crafts.
And making butterflies seemed like the perfect way to do so! These butterflies are cute and easy to make. So much so that my younger kids were even able to do it with minimal help.
We did opt to use the hot glue gun, which I helped with to make things easier. But I hope your family has as much fun as mine did with this simple and fun craft.
Simple Spring Craft: Let's Make Butterflies
Grab your crafting supplies and let's make this butterfly craft using plastic spoons!
Materials
- White Plastic Spoon (Or if you already have clear spoons, white paint)
- Construction Paper (We used blue, purple, pink, white, red)
- Scissors
- Zig Zag Scissors
- Glue Stick
- Hot Glue or Craft Glue
- Permanent Marker
Instructions
- Draw a face on your white spoon. We opted with a smiley face.
- Cut out a heart using your zig zag scissors. It needs to be the largest of the 4. The easiest way to do this is fold your paper in half and cut a half heart out of it. When you open it up itโll be a whole heart. Use the cutout as a stencil to draw the same size heart and cut it out.
- Do this with the purple paper using regular scissors. Glue it on the blue heart.
- Then the pink paper. Glue it on the purple heart.
- Then the white paper using the zig zag scissors. Glue it on the pink heart.
- Finally, cut out a small heart with the red paper. Glue it on the white heart.
- Glue the hearts on top of each other the largest on the bottom and keep adding them until the smallest heart is one top.
- Glue the wings onto the spoon.
- Cut down pipe cleaners and glue them on, curling them as antennas. Now you have a simple butterfly!
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How did you like this butterfly craft?
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