Coffee Filter Butterfly
3 Apr
We are really hoping for Spring weather soon, as we have had our fill of winter.
Our Springtime Sugar Cookies did not entice the Spring weather to come, but we are hoping these cute butterflies will.
With only a few materials, your kids can create beautiful butterflies to decorate your home.
My Kids Make “Coffee Filter Butterfly” and yours can too! Grab your coffee filters, get your paint, and start!
Materials:
Coffee Filters
Clothespin (the wooden kind)
Markers, paint, glitter etc.
Colored Construction Paper
Glue
Grab a pile of coffee filters and let your kids decorate them. {We actually use the natural coffee filters that are brown colored and this project still worked.}
Use watercolor paint, markers, glitter glue, etc. and have fun decorating the filters!
While the coffee filters dry, get out the clothespins. We painted ours various colors. You could use marker to color them, or leave them plain.
Cut two thin strips of colored construction paper and glue them on to each clothespin {for the antennae}.
Once all is dry, bunch the coffee filter in the center and clip it with the clothespin. Fan the coffee filter out on each side {for the butterfly’s wings}.
Hang your butterfly from a string in the window, or from the ceiling in a play room. How about gluing a magnet to the back of the clothespin and sticking it to your fridge. The options are endless.
In no time, these cute butterflies will be decorating your house, just like they are mine!
~Enjoy
Welcome to My Kids Make. I'm Becky, mom to 2 cuties, Sydney and Silas.
great project, with so many possibilities! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday, great to see you again!
Beautiful butterflies – bring Spring quickly.
Your colors make it seem like Spring.
Love the butterflies! Such a cute idea, we are ready for spring too. Very well done project.
Looks like fun and so pretty! They would make great decorations for a birthday party too.
Aaaah your butterflies are fabulous! Love them. And you took some great shots. Really brings the craft to life!
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Thanks for all the comment love. Glad you guys like the butterflies as much as we do!!! They are hanging in our front window and from the ceiling in our playroom. Def. a fun addition to the house!!!
These came out great!
we are making these for my son’s second birthday, which has a hungry caterpillar theme! We are using sparkly pipe cleaners for the antenna. Great Spring project!
We made a different version of peg butterflies last summer. Yours are beautiful
What a beautiful project – and easy to follow too!
I’ve had my fill of winter as well. I love that the butterflies’ bodies are clothespins…They could also be strung as garland!
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What a cute idea! These would be fun to do with my grandchildren!
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