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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I don’t usually cross stitch text or add words to my cross stitch projects. Sometimes I will sign things using basic block lettering worked in backstitch (luckily my initials are pretty easy to stitch), but if you give your cross stitch as a gift or otherwise want to personalize it, adding text is a great way to go.

But if a project didn’t already come with text, and you don’t want to draw your own, you’ll need a good cross stitch font that you can use for your project.

I like collecting fonts that are easy to read and to stitch and that would be good for lots of different uses.

For example I really like this bold alphabet font from Cross Stitch with Art, which has both capital and lowercase letters as well as numbers if you need them for dates or other information on your design. The capital letters are an inch/2.5 cm/14 stitches tall, which makes it easy to figure out how much space you need to leave for them. It’s a nice, basic, readable serif font you can use for lots of project.

If you want a script font that’s still really readable, check out Magic Calligraphy from Soft Pattern Designs. This hand drawn font has upper case letters around 28 stitches tall, with lower case letters mostly being around 20 stitches (though the ones that go up or down a lot like f, p and y are bigger). The numbers also vary a bit in size but range from 25 to 29 stitches.

Sometimes you just want a classic font that looks like sports lettering, and in that case you’re going to need Varsity, an all caps font from Stitch Mod. This one has letters that are 21 stitches tall, and it includes capital letters and numbers. But there are definitely times this one would come in handy!

Another sometimes useful and really cute font is this alphabet block letters alphabet from Stitch Junction. These letters are all upper case and look like classic building blocks, and there are also numbers available. This one would be perfect for a birth announcement project or some other cross stitch for the baby’s room.

And if that’s not enough for you, check out this post with 85 free cross stitch fonts for you to try!

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