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Kids Crafts – 20 Easy Butterfly Crafts

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As Spring turns to Summer my kids and I like to watch the transformation of caterpillars to butterflies!
Of course this always presents a craft opportunity and during Spring we make a Pom Pom caterpillar before progressing onto my large collection of easy butterfly crafts for kids young and old!
Here you can find a wide range of craft ideas using lots of materials including paper plates, toilet rolls, pipe cleaners, coffee filters, cupcake wrappers and more.
There is no better way to spend a rainy Spring day than doing some craft with your children. Use these as an opportunity to encourage their creativity and stimulate their young imaginations.
I do hope you enjoy these butterfly crafts for kids
 
 
 
 
 
 

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.

Have you read?

6 Free Celestial Coloring Pages

6 Free Celestial Coloring Pages

Celestial designs have been popular for awhile, you’ll find this trendy imagery on everything from clothing to tattoos and of course crafting products and projects as well. If you’re into suns, stars, moons, constellations and Zodiac signs then you’re going to love the coloring pages inside the Celestial Mandalas Coloring Book by Dover Publications. To give you a taste they are offering 6 FREE pages that you can download, print and color. These beautiful and calming designs are full of intertwined teardrops and circles, swirling planets, bright fiery suns, crescent moons, shooting stars and more. You can even adjust the sizes and use these images for handmade greeting cards, journaling cards for scrapbooking or include them on your planner pages.

Visit Dover Publications for the downloads.

-Heather

Coloring in sheets are a great way to calm the busy mind, as you focus on the coloring techniques your brain is actually able to calm itself and focus on less. Coloring is used to help relax and calm anxiety and stress. Coloring keeps our  mental health in check and allows us to develop parts of the creative brain. We highly recommend Faber castell coloring pencils .