Butterfly Craft Ideas for Kids
Posted on January 9, 2012 by Lisa
Butterfly Craft Ideas for Kids
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Butterflies are beautiful and graceful creatures! Here we have a collection of easy and fun butterfly crafts for kids.
Craft an easy springtime crown adorned with colorful paper butterflies.
Explore the life cycle of butterflies with a fluttery mobile. How can you attract these beautiful, fragile creatures to your garden?
This clever candy messenger with beating heart-shaped wings is sure to bring even the shyest valentine out of his cocoon.
This is a simple craft made from a child’s handprint cutouts.
Who would guess a dotty butterfly this beautiful could be so unbelievably quick to make? Follow our lead, or wing a pretty design on your own.
Surround yourself with summertime! Collect your own colorful, symmetrical butterflies!
Learn color mixing while creating colorful coffee filter butterflies and later string them together to make a mobile.
Invent your own species of butterfly, moth, or other insect. Or make models of your favorites! All you need is Crayola Model Magic® compound and your imagination to make tiny details on your own winged creatures!
Your kids will love making this personalized light switch to make their room extra special.
Yet another craft that uses handprints (I love ‘em!!). This one takes a bit more work than a normal one because you need to assemble the wings (5 handprints each).
What could be more beautiful than butterfly colors and patterns? Your children will be all aflutter as they design and collect handmade butterfly wings.
This TP Roll Butterfly is an easy and inexpensive kids craft. Use what ever embellishments you have around the house to decorate your butterfly’s wings. Make your butterfly fly by punching a hole in the roll and tying on a string!
Make this pretty 1960′s inspired paper butterfly headband in a few easy steps.
One of our favorite parts of summer is running around outside at dusk chasing after fireflies. To capture this we decided to do a firefly craft that really glows in the dark, just like the real thing! This bug craft is simple one, with only a few pieces, but it is very big on imagination. While we did it we talked about how we were using some glitter to make the wings sparkle just like a real lightning bug and about how fireflies blink in order to talk.
What insect is solar powered and tastes with its legs? Find out about a butterfly’s life cycle in this colorful game. Make it and play with friends!
Looking for a butterfly craft? Use our butterfly printables to make mobiles, decorate a summer window, or just for colouring!
Don’t throw out those old puzzles! Use the left over pieces to make butterfly pins.
This stained glass butterfly craft looks very pretty in the window -imagine a classroom full of these on a sunny day! Children can obviously make their designs as simple or as complicated as they like, so it is a great idea for mixed ages or abilities. Younger children may need help with the contact paper, which can be a bit tricky.
Butterflies flutter in the wind like real-life fairies, colorfully floating on air. It’s easy to pin one down in this creative butterfly craft. Your kids will make their own butterflies with paper, glue, and clothespins — and a little imagination.
Go buggy! Re-create nature’s beautiful butterfly patterns on finger-puppet wings.
Looking for a clever, decorative, dramatic mask? Just wing it with a two-sided, brilliant and beautiful butterfly mask featuring Crayola Neon Color Explosion technology!
Make these 3-D butterflies to decorate any room or window in the house. The varnish gives the paper a nice shine and the look of metal. The stuffing in the butterfly gives it a lot of body and dimension. You can also make smaller versions of this pattern to create refrigerator magnets or scrapbook embellishments.
This butterfly is made from felt with a clothespin for the body. It’s a really easy craft for kids to do. There are so many ways that they could decorate this felt butterfly, that each child can really personalize their own. It’s also an easy craft to do with a group of kids.
Valentine Heart Butterfly Pencil Topper Craft
Make a cute butterfly great for a Valentine gift. This adorable Butterfly Pencil Topper craft for kids uses hearts for his wings.
Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly Craft
This toilet paper roll butterfly craft was a huge hit in our house! Our daughter loved assembling the pieces and watching her butterfly craft be able to stand up by itself. This is a cute bug craft for preschoolers that is a great spring or summer craft as well. Our provided template makes this cute craft even easier to put together and your kids will love using their imagination to create their very own butterfly.
A colorful butterfly card made from construction paper. This card is great for birthdays, Mother’s Day, or other occasions.
Butterflies pop up all over when kids create this booklet that’s perfect to gather ideas or whatever is fluttering around in their heads. Burst from the cocoon of ho-hum projects!
Use these free directions and create a butterfly using hearts.
Children spread their creative wings with this imaginative activity that helps them understand perspective and size. Flutter around further with a story from a butterfly’s point of view.
This butterfly Baggie is just that – a butterfly made from a regular zip-lock baggie! If you can crumple paper, you can do this craft, perfect for toddlers and preschoolers!
Fuse Bead Butterfly Window Decoration
This butterfly seems to come to life when the sun shines on it. Kids love working with fuse beads and this colorful project is perfect for decorating the windows after a long and dreary winter. Kids are not limited to the suggested colors but can be creative and choose any combination they like.
Foam Butterfly Finger Puppet or Pencil Topper Craft
You can make cute finger puppets using Craft Foam Sheets. Try making this Foam Butterfly Finger Puppet. You can also make this as a pencil/pen top decoration by simply making the body more narrow to fit a pencil instead of a finger.
This felt butterfly craft makes a cute little easy sewing project for kids, needing only basic supplies.
Origami, Japan’s traditional craft of paper-folding, has been used since the 10th century to sculpt animals and wrap gifts. Animals, birds, fish and insects are favorite origami subjects. After folding the butterfly featured here, you can make it flutter by pressing on its back with the tip of your finger.
Make one or more of these delightful creatures to make your room a special place. Show the kids photos of real butterflies or just the create their own masterpiece. This project can be as simple or as complex as the crafter’s capabilities.
With Crayola® Slick Stix™ intense colors go on as smoothly as a butterfly fluttering in the breeze! Imagine how cool your room will look with this kite hanging on the wall!
Letter B Butterfly Paper Craft
Grownups probably remember making this cute little fellow when they were little. It is made from two capital letter B’s (one a mirror image) with a body in the middle. It’s a good project to do as part of a letter recognition exercise!
These butterfly wings are an easy kids craft for the summer or anytime you are studying butterflies – and they are fun to wear, too!
In most places, the butterfly season draws to a close in August as these colorful insects begin to migrate to their winter habitats. You and your family can extend the season by crafting some winged creatures that will stick around long after the real ones are gone.
Capture the beauty of a butterfly-in a bookmark! Mark your spot with this craft idea from The Crayola FACTORY®.
This is an easy and fun Craft for kids that can be turned into a cute table decoration.
Sweetness abounds when you make and give this adorable Candy Butterfly to someone special.
Show your personal style on colorful, plump pillows. Create several with your favorite colors for your room. You’re an interior designer!
A colorful butterfly mobile made from construction paper, thread, and twigs. This carefully balanced sculpture moves with every breeze.
Enjoy making these decorative butterfly-wing kites with the whole family. Brighten your backyard for a colorful picnic, or let kites flutter from the ceiling!
With a body made of chewing-gum sticks and licorice-whip antennae, this valentine will be lucky to make it through lunchtime.
Our family is a huge fan of handprint crafts and we’re getting pretty creative with what we can turn them into! This handprint butterfly craft for kids is our most recent spring craft that kids are sure to love. Let your children decorate their butterfly however they would like so that years later you’ll have captured both the size of their little hands as well as a little snapshot of their creativity as well.
Spring Cupcake Wrapper and Decoration Craft
The FreeKidsCrafts.com Team has been having fun in the kitchen. They designed these Spring Cupcake Holders to add a fun element to their creations.
Ever stop to watch a butterfly? Carry one with you every day on a cheery tote you make yourself. Fill your Butterfly Bag with your treasures.
This is a fun, simple craft for all ages. It’s also a good project for practicing making patterns.
This is a fun craft that will stay in the minds of youngsters.
Hang or stick these beautiful butterflies at your window and watch the sun shine through!
What makes these fluttery butterflies so vibrant? Magazine photos!
Paper Plate Butterfly Puppet Craft
A simple-to-make paper plate butterfly puppet. Each butterfly is made from two paper plates taped together.
Follow a Butterfly Life-Cycle Mobile
Butterflies dazzle us with their exquisite wing colors and delicate movements. Use Crayola Scissors to create a decorative butterfly mobile!
How will you decorate your butterflies? This craft is another original handprint craft from FreeKidsCraft.com.
The butterfly looks sort of like a monarch butterfly (except a bit more cheerful than the real deal).
This happy little butterfly will brighten a young girls room and make it smell good too.
This is a great craft to do at a children’s party. Before the party, glue all the pipe cleaners to popsicle sticks. The children can do everything else themselves during the party.
The folding paper butterfly craft is a classic preschool craft that kids always seem to love doing. Print and cut out our butterfly template, fold it in half and have your child paint a design – the goopier the better! Then just fold the unpainted side over the painted side and press together to create a perfectly symmetrical butterfly. This a great butterfly craft for kids and is also a great spring craft for kids.
Show that you know butterfly anatomy—and line symmetry! Sculpt a clay butterfly that is fragile, beautiful, and realistic.
This bookmark will put a smile on your face every time you start to read.
Beat the summer heat with these easy to make paper butterfly fans.
Hang these butterflies by the antenna with fishing line from a paper plate punched with holes. Paint a sky with clouds on the plate to make your butterflies look like they are flying.
Coffee filter coloring is a lot of fun to do. I find it relaxing to sit and watch the colors flow together to make unique patterns.
Make this beautiful Butterfly to pop up out of your pocket.
Encourage your children to let their imagination run riot with this colourful butterfly handprint painting.
A simple construction paper ‘hat’ the kids have fun making, decorating and wearing!
Recycling and coloring—two of kids’ favorite activities—are both in the bag with these beautiful butterfly sacks. They’re great for gift bags, Earth Day, or nature hikes.
This dolly peg butterfly is quick and easy to make, but of course you can decorate the wings as much as you like and clip it up to display it!
Butterfly Flier Craft Instructions and Templates
This is a very different tp roll craft than most. It ends up “larger than life” (about one square foot) and is fun to play with. If you look closely at the photo, you can see the tp roll in the center of the butterfly’s body… that will give you a feel for the size of the finished craft. Pull the yarn (takes two people) and the butterfly will fly between the players.
Whether you’re packing a snack for a trip to the park or making a treat for your preschooler’s entire class, these fluttery friends are sure to charm. The bags can be filled with any snack, though a mix that offers a blend of colors and shapes makes for a more interesting butterfly.
Here’s an idea for a very pretty beaded butterfly craft for kids. Adapt them for all ages by changing the thickness of the wire and the size of the beads. Imagine a flurry of these hanging in your window in summer time – so cute! They would also make a gorgeous mobile, or even a little necklace charm if made small enough.
Decorate your windows for Spring and Summer by trying this suncatcher butterfly craft with your kids. It’s fun squishing the two sides of the butterfly together!
This colorful butterfly is really fun and easy to make as a room or window decoration. Because of the many hues in rainbow colored paper, no two butterflies will look alike. The butterfly is quite similar to the transparent butterfly.
This is a fun and creative summer paper craft project for children and will keep them busy for a little while if the weather is too hot to go outdoors or if it is rainy. Children can create a whole window full of butterflies to decorate their rooms or they can even make a butterfly mobile by hanging butterflies onto different lengths of string and hanging the strings then onto a stick or loop. It is also fun to experiment with the colors to create many unique looking butterflies. The rainbow paper is excellent because of the various color schemes.
Celebrate wildlife and warm tropical weather! Cut and color a flock of these bright winged creatures!
Double-Sided Butterfly Pendant
Wear a beautiful butterfly! Create colorful double-sided pendants for party favor—or to wear any time just for fun!
Butterfly Popsicle Stick Puppet Craft
These easy butterfly crafts are so cute you won’t be able to stop at making one! Luckily, this is one insect infestation you will leave the exterminator out of.
This craft is a great way to transform a bunch of hearts into a friendly butterfly craft. This is a great craft to use to teach your children about the heart shape, about big and small, and about doing things in order. It is also a fantastic Valentine’s Day craft and gift! We’ve found that it’s almost impossible to make just one of these cute little heart butterfly crafts – they turn out so cute that kids like to make them over and over!
Capture party excitement on the wings of these Butterfly Puppet Party Bags. Put on a puppet parade, and then fill each child’s party bag with goodies to send home!
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