Butterflies

Here are a couple of quick, easy and adaptable crafts, using materials that most of us probably already have at home.

Hand print Butterflies

Materials needed:

• Construction paper
• Butterfly "body" template
  
• Scissors
• Glue
• Googly eyes
• Marker
• Pompoms
• Stickers

Help child to assemble the butterfly as shown in picture. If you prefer, instead of tracing their hands on paper, you could actually have them dip their hands into paint and make real hand prints for the wings! You can decorate the wings with sticker, glitter, or even just crayons. If you don't have any pompoms for the body, you could use cotton balls, buttons, or anything else circular you have laying around.

Butterfly Garden

Materials needed:

• Construction paper
• Paint
  
• Butterfly sponge (I just cut a basic butterfly shape out of a regular rectangular kitchen sponge)
• White cupcake papers
  
• Scissors
• Glue
• Markers/crayons

Have child dip sponge into paint and then press onto paper. For the "flowers", have child color the cupcake papers. Caleb wanted to just color the middle of each. After they are done coloring, tear the side of the flowers to give the effect of petals. Or, you could use scissors, or have the child use scissors. Add construction paper stems and leaves.