Butterfly Crafts remind us of the upcoming spring! These beautiful and easy crafts for kids are a great way to channel their creativity and polish their fine motor skills.
What we love most about Butterfly Crafts For Kids of All Ages is that there are so many ways to make them and kids always love making them.
Include it with Butterfly unit (grab the free printables at the end of the page) or simply make a butterfly craft for fun. Either way, this Paper plate butterfly craft for kids is an engaging craft that will keep your kids happily and mindfully busy.
How To Make Butterfly Craft For Kids
Making this paper plate butterfly craft for kindergarten is super fun and easy. In fact, this is a perfect butterfly craft for toddlers as well as preschoolers!
It uses common craft supplies that are more likely already present in your craft cabinet. And in case you are missing a supply, don’t worry! Just let your kiddo’s creativity juices flow to make their own version of butterfly craft.
Quick Tip: Make cute Pipe cleaner flowers with this craft.
Supplies For Butterfly Craft
- Paper plate
- Plastic spoon – You can even use a disposable wooden spoon
- Pipe Cleaners
- Scissors
- Glue
- Construction Paper
- Googly eyes
- Pencil
- Yarn in various colors – we used orange, yellow, and violet
Step-By-Step Instructions To Make Paper Plate Butterfly Craft
Step 1: Draw a free hand butterfly wings on the paper plate and cut it out using scissors.
Step 2: Trace the butterfly wing’s cutout on the construction paper, cut it out and paste it on the cutout. We used pink construction paper, but you can use any color!
Step 3: Outline the wings of the butterfly with a pipe cleaner.
We used a glue gun to paste the pipe cleaner, but liquid glue works equally well and is suggested when your little one is bent on doing all the work themselves. In case you are using hot glue, adults are recommended to do this step.
Step 4: To make the body of the butterfly use a plastic spoon and wrap yarn around the stick of the spoon to create an eye-catching pattern.
Step 5: Paste googly eyes on the back of the spoon and attach two antennae to complete the butterfly’s body.
Step 6: Lastly, paste the body of the butterfly on the wings to complete this beautiful butterfly craft.
This is such a fun and easy paper plate craft to make with kids! It takes only a few minutes and gives children ample freedom to incorporate their creativity.
Related: Club Paper Plate Frog with this cute spring craft!
Allow your kids to make beautiful patterns of their choice on the wings, use stickers (or rhinestones) to decorate the wings or leave them as it is. Whatever they fancy!
Once your kids are done with their butterfly craft, indulge them in these Free Butterfly activity sheets that include Butterfly life cycle, coloring pages, color-by-number, Butterfly scavenger hunt, butterfly math as well as butterfly fun facts!
Download Free Butterfly Worksheets
We bet these Butterfly activity sheets will excite your young as well as older kids.
