This is a really fun craft that doesnt require any fancy materials. You’ll most likely have everything already at home. It’s also ‘magical’ and I’m sure your kids will love it!
Amazing Balancing Butterfly Craft
Materials needed:
Coloured Paper Card board from cereal boxes (or any other box) Glue Coins
Fold a coloured paper half. Draw one half of a butterfly making sure the top wings are way above the butterfly head to enable it to balance. This is also a good time to teach your child about the centre of gravity.
Cut and paste onto the card board. Cut again.
Decorate the butterfly.
Paste a coin each on the back of the top wings.
The butterfly should be able to balance itself now.
It can balance almost anywhere.
Your kids will have a whole lot of fun balancing the butterfly everywhere!
You can also make a balancing bird instead of a butterfly.
It’s just as beautiful and fun to play with. This is a great craft to make at any parties 🙂
During the school holidays, I brought our little crafty boy to the mall for some fun holiday crafts. They did a pencil topper that day.
My boy was given this piece of hard construction printed paper. He coloured it.
I thought he did a great job at coloring the horse! 😀
He then applied glue all over and placed a pencil in the middle.
Fold, seal and let dry.
He loves it so much that he wanted to make more for his teachers so he can give them when school reopens. We printed our own pictures and he did a few..
Watch this video of him printing and making a Butterfly Pencil Topper 🙂
Kate Gribble of An Amazing Child shared this beautiful Paper Towel Butterfly Mobile 😀
This activity uses paper towel and food colouring (paint). It is perfect for toddlers. The paint spreads beautifully across the paper and once dry, can be cut into any shape you like. This mobile was made by Kate and her 27 month old son for her 11 week old daughter.
Click here for the full instruction. Thank you Kate for sharing this amazing craft. We love it!
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I stumbled upon this great idea from Rainbowstarbooks for a goodie bag! The next time you have a party, why not place all the little goodies in a plastic bag and tie it up to look like a butterfly?
Anney was planning to arrange the fruit skewers into a terracotta pot but she saw this picket fence planter box and thought it was cute.
She used a floral foam for the base and embellished the planter box with vines and a ladybug.
She used cookie cutters to cut out the shapes.
Pretty.. just too pretty. Use lots of heart shapes for this coming Valentine's Day 🙂
Thank you Anney for sharing this food craft with us. You too can share your craft with us by simply submitting them here and we’ll link it back to you 🙂
Kids just love to play with paint. Give them a brush and paint and just see them go.. Sometimes, with a little guide, we can help them create something nice. Here, we created a footprint butterfly.
Footprint butterfly.
Paint your foot to any colour you wish your butterfly to be. It may be ticklish to some..
Print your foot on a piece of paper.
Paint another foot and print it next to the initial print.
The wings are done.
Paint your finger with any colour to decorate the wings.
Just dot around the wings for added colour.
Have ideas on other art and crafts inspired from hand and footprint? Do share with us here. Thank you. 🙂
