20 Pressed Flower Nature Crafts

Butterfly crafts are such a lovely way to bring color, creativity, and a little bit of nature-inspired fun into your day. Whether you are making these with preschoolers, school-aged children, a classroom group, or grandkids at the kitchen table, these easy butterfly craft ideas are perfect for encouraging imagination without needing complicated supplies.

Most of these projects can be made with simple craft materials like paper, paint, pipe cleaners, coffee filters, recycled cardboard, toilet paper rolls, buttons, and glue, which makes them ideal for rainy days, spring activities, summer boredom busters, or a quick weekend craft session.

I love that butterfly crafts can be as simple or as detailed as you want them to be. Younger children can enjoy bright colors and basic shapes, while older kids can add patterns, textures, glitter, symmetry, and their own creative details. However they turn out, each butterfly becomes its own little piece of handmade art.

So gather a few supplies, clear a little space on the table, and let the kids create their own fluttery collection of butterflies. These are the kinds of cheerful crafts that look beautiful on the fridge, classroom wall, bedroom door, or even strung together as a spring garland.

Pressed flower Window Art for kids by Craftbits.com
Dried Flower Bookmark by Craftbits.com
Pressed Flower Tray by The House That Lars Built
Bookmarks From Pressed Flowers by Sugar Sunshine And Flowers
Pressed Flower Luminaries by Be Impressed By Nature
Pressed Flower Candles by Hearth And Vine
DIY Pressed Flower Locket by Monsters Circus
DIY Pressed Flower Wall Art by On Sutton Place
Handmade Paper with Pressed Flowers by Hearth And Vine
DIY Pressed Flower Phone Case by Capture By Lucy
DIY Dried Flower Coaster by The Crafted Life
Wax Paper Pressed Flowers by Home Heart Craft
Pressed Flower Pendant by Craftify My Love
Pressed Flower Display by The Merry Thought
Pressed Flowers Decanter and Glasses by Jojotastic
Pressed Flower Key Rings by Sunny Day Today Mama
Pressed Floral Luminaries and Vases by Babyccino Kids
DIY Floral Bath Salts by Almost Makes Perfect
Pressed Flower Ornaments by The Blondie Locks
Pressed Flower Art In A Floating Frame by Anna Grunduls
Mandala Sun Catchers by Twig And Toadstool
DIY Pressed Flower Easter Eggs by Clover Home

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Last year I shared my cute pencil cross stitch bookmark pattern, so I thought this year maybe I would look for more pencil cross stitch patterns to celebrate back to school or the writer in your life.

If you’re looking for a fancier version of a pencil bookmark, check out this pretty one from Embrovera. It has pretty flowers and hearts around the pencil with a stitched border. It measures 27 by 86 stitches and comes out to 1.9 by 6.1 inches, or 4.9 by 15.6 cm, stitched on 14 count fabric.

Speaking of flowers, there’s also this floral pencil cross stitch design from Oh My Stitches Shop. The pencil is black on this one but you could make it any color you like. It measures 37 by 102 stitches and uses 17 colors. On 14 count fabric it is 2.36 by 7.08 inches, or 6.71 by 18.5 cm.

If you want to stitch a pencil that’s a cute teacher gift for back to school, try this one from Daily Cross Stitch, which features a pencil stretched into a heart shape and a heart shaped eraser. It calls for 11 colors and is 65 by 52. On 14 count fabric that comes to 4.64 by 3.71 inches, or 11.78 by 9.42 cm.

There’s also this cute chubby pencil with the word learn from Stitch Gallery PDF that would be cute for a teacher (or a homeschool classroom). It looks like it uses five colors and the designer suggests using a piece of fabric that’s around 7 inches/17.6 cm square for this project.

How about a teeny tiny pencil cross stitch pattern? This one from Bella Rose Craft also includes a wee apple design, and these mini patterns would be cute as a necklace or keychain charm. And at 7 by 13 stitches you can finish this one up in no time.

Stitch the pencil alone or with this cute collection of school supplies that includes a glue bottle, crayons and calculator. The pattern is from sosacaetano, and it would be so cute for a classroom or stitched on a card. The full design as show is 6 by 1.75 inches (15.24 by 4.44 cm) on 14 count fabric.

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