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22 Butterfly Crafts For Kids

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These cute and adorable butterfly crafts are the perfect addition to your afternoon of crafting. These crafts are all aimed at children and are easy to make. They are also perfect for large group activities where children are required to do some of the work on their own and unsupervised such as painting and tracing.

But first.. 

Why are Butterfly crafts good for kids?

Creativity: Creating butterfly crafts can spark kids’ imagination and encourage them to express their creativity. They can experiment with different colors, patterns, and materials to create unique and beautiful butterflies.

Fine motor skills: Making butterfly crafts can help improve children’s fine motor skills as they use scissors, glue, and other tools to cut and assemble the materials.

Science education: Butterfly crafts can be a fun way to introduce kids to science concepts like metamorphosis, the butterfly life cycle, and the anatomy of a butterfly.

Outdoor appreciation: Butterflies are commonly found in nature, and making butterfly crafts can help kids appreciate and learn about the outdoors and the creatures that live there.

Social and emotional development: Crafting can also provide a sense of accomplishment and pride for kids when they complete a project. It can also be a social activity that fosters communication and cooperation when done with other children or adults.

And with that here are the ideas in this roundup!

Kids Craft – Cork Butterflies

Coffee Filter Butterfly Craft is Perfect for Kids of All Ages!

Fun Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft for Kids

Chunky Rainbow Butterfly Craft For Kids · The Inspiration Edit

Handprint Butterfly Craft For Kids

Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly

Butterfly Black Glue Craft for Kids – Toddlers Can Do This Too!

DIY Butterfly Necklace From Newspaper — CraftBits.com

Butterfly Mobile — CraftBits.com

Sweet & Lovely Paper Plate Butterfly Kids Craft

Butterfly Candle Holders — CraftBits.com

Clay Footprint Ring Dish – A beautiful diy butterfly keepsake craft

Giant, Pretty, Painted Origami Butterflies

Easy No Sew Felt Butterfly Craft

How to Make a Paper Bag Butterfly Kids Craft

Marbled paper plate Butterfly

Foam Cup Butterfly Craft

Easy Butterfly For Toddlers

Easy Butterfly Craft Ring

DIY New-Sew Tulle Butterflies Tutorial – Party Ideas | Party Printables Blog

Kids Craft: Clothespin Butterfly

Butterfly Art Using Paint Swatches

Looking for some Butterfly themed kids crafts? Check these out on Amazon. They are ready to go with all the supplies.

Butterfly Sun Catcher Kit

ButterflyNecklace Kit

Butterfly paint set

Have you read?

Book Review: Once in a Blue Moon

Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins. 

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world. 

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears. 

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more. 

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake. 

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more. 

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.