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Butterfly Craft for Kids

Jun222017 posted by Jodie and Jen 5 Comments

This butterfly craft is simple and easy and perfect for any age! Your kids will want to make a paper plate butterfly every summer. 

Butterfly Craft for Kids | Kids Craft Ideas

Summer Break is here! One of our most favorite things to do during summer break is crafting with the kids. It’s a bit messy and a tad crazy, but always a good time. 🙂 We had our first craft day of the summer with the kids the other day. It had been quite awhile since we had last pulled out the paints so everyone was pretty excited. We made the most adorable Butterfly Craft. They take basic craft supplies and cheap paper plates so hopefully you have everything on hand already.

Paper Plate Butterfly Supplies

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  • Paper Plates
  • Water Color Paints or any paints you have on hand
  • Paint Brush
  • Craft Spoons – you can usually find these by the popsicle sticks at the craft store
  • Pipe Cleaners
  • 2 sizes of Pom Poms
  • Hot Glue Gun and Glue
  • Scissors
  • Googly Eyes

Butterfly Craft for Kids | Kids Craft Ideas

Butterfly Crafts for Kids

Steps:

Fold your paper plate in half and then cut down the center. Then take your two pieces and fold each of them in half. Then cut the flat corner in a rounded shape. That’s a little hard to explain so hopefully the picture below will help.

Butterfly Craft for Kids | Kids Craft Ideas

Then the real fun begins. Painting your butterfly wings! The watercolors are fun because you can blend the colors together, but any type of paint would work.

While your wings dry put together the body of your butterfly. Hot glue your pom poms to the wooden stick. We used a larger size for the head and 3 smaller ones for the body.

We used half of a pipe cleaner and then folded it in half and curled the ends. Hot glue your antennas to the back of the stick.

Add your googly eyes. Almost any size eyes will work. They are cute with small eyes and they are cute with big eyes. haha.

The last thing you need to do is to glue your body to the dry wings.

Paper Plate Butterfly Craft | Kids Craft Ideas

This craft is fun for a wide age range. We had a 4 year old up to a 40 year old. 😉 Paper Plate Butterfly Craft | Kids Craft Ideas

If you are looking for more fun kid craft ideas check these posts out:

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I'm Jen Sedillo, one of the bloggers behind Eighteen25. I love creating and crafting, reading good books, visiting new places and being with family!
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  1. danielle @ this picture book life says

    June 22, 2017 at 10:09 am

    Adorable!

    Reply
    • Jodie and Jen says

      June 23, 2017 at 4:24 pm

      Thanks so much!

      Reply
  2. Kids Songs says

    November 9, 2017 at 9:42 pm

    Creative piece of artwork. Nice idea to keep kid busy. Keep it up your good work and keep sharing your creative stuff.

    Reply
  3. Trina says

    July 29, 2018 at 9:35 am

    Hello!
    I am doing this craft outside with a bunch of kids. Would I be able to to use tacky glue? Excited to do this project!
    Thank you!

    Reply
    • Jodie and Jen says

      August 7, 2018 at 6:03 am

      It will probably make things a little harder since it will take longer to dry.

      Reply

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