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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?

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.