35 Butterfly Crafts

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Butterfly Crafts for Kids and the young at heart! My kids adore butterflies, and each year we get our own set of caterpillars, that we watch transform into stunning butterflies. It is amazing to watch the caterpillar to butterfly life cycle and see those amazing insects emerge. To celebrate this lovely Butterfly Activity Experience we also like to do a butterfly craft!

35 Beautiful Butterfly Crafts for children and young at heart. See more ideas about Butterflies! Great Spring Crafts and Summer Crafts. We love Butterflies and Butterfly DIYs. #butterfly #crafts #summer #spring #papercrafts

These darling Butterfly Crafts for Kids were first published in April 2015 and have been updated and republished for your convenience!

Though we have a quite a few butterflie crafts here on red ted art already (see below), I thought I would pull together some more ideas for you – there is something for everyone – from simple coffee filter butterflies for preschoolers, to butterfly crochet patterns for grown ups.. and everything in between! Would love to hear what your favourite butterfly craft is…. and now… to our cute little butterflies!!!

You may also enjoy our Summer Crafts for Preschoolers and Classic Summer Crafts for kids!

Butterfly Crafts and Ideas

Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers

As a bit of fun and a great way to explore MUSIC and CRAFTS, I have teamed up with Music with Nancy, to create this wonderful Butterfly Song and craft inspiration! Have a watch and listen.. then get crafty!

“Song: “Butterfly”, copyright 2019 by Nancy Kopman, used with permission This track is available in Nancy’s store in the Senses Album.

Let’s begin with some nice and easy Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers and then progress to crafts for older kids!

Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers
Kids Art Butterfly Cork Crafts. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

Butterfly Cork Craft – these butterflies look super cute made from plain paper, or turn your “toddler art” into stunning butterfly wings”!

Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

Finger knitting is a great skill to teach a child of any age. And preschool is a great time to start themon it. Turn your fingering knitting into these easy and adorable Finger Knitting Butterfly DIY.

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Adorable 3d Butterfly Coloring Page/ Paper Craft! So cute! Part of a set of 5 adorable 3d paper insects to make this spring and summer!

butterfly lacing cards. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

What child doesn’t love a lacing card? This DIY Butterfly Lacing Cards are adorable and great for fine motor skills too!

Butterfly Suncatcher . Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

We love Suncatchers and these Butterfly Suncatchers are no exceptipn. Some prep time from the adult required!

Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

A super lovely Butterfly Activity for Preschoolers this summer. Who doesn’t love to play with Bubbles? Make your own Bubble Mixture and then create this wonderful  Bubble Art Butterflies (perfect for Preschoolers, and love the use of buttons)

Coffee Filter Butterflies

And yes… a Preschooler Butterfly Classic: The Coffee Filter Butterflies (we show how to make these using craft sticks, pipe cleaners or clothes pegs) These butterflies look gorgeous for decorating a child’s bedroom wall as we have done!

clothespin-butterfly. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

Similarly these Butterfly Clothes Pins using water colours are adorable

Butterfly garland. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

Butterfly Mobile – get the whole family involved in colouring and designing – I love that even the youngest among us can join in with this Butterfly activity. We had a young toddler all the way to Grandpa designing butterflies and then brought it all together into this family activity! Would make for a great collaborative project in Kindergarten too!

butterfly cards. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

Similarly, explore watercolours with this simple Pop Up Butterfly Cards – these butterflies are super quick to make – the kids can use water colours, crayons, pens or pencils.. your choice. But I think it is fun for them to experiment with water colours.

Gorgeous Butterfly Masks (with template printable)

Butterflies Spin art. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

Spin art is a great art technique for Preschoolers. They will love this Butterfly Arts and Crafts idea for Preschool: Spin Art Butterflies.

beaded butterfly craft. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

These little Beaded Butterflies are super cute and great for some fine motor skills practice!

fall-butterfly - Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

Nothing quite like combine nature with crafts, in this adorable Autumn Butterfly for Preschool!

nature butterfly finger puppets. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

Similarly check out these super duper cute Nature Butterfly Finger Puppets

Newspaper Butterfly Craft. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

We love recycling. Newspapers Crafts are super fun and thrifty for kids. I Heart Crafty Things shows us how to turn old newspapers into bright and colourful Newspaper Butterflies!

3d Butterfly Crafts. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

Another adorable idea from I Heart Craft Things is this wonderful Butterfly Paper Craft – turn paper and some office stickers into 3d Butterfly Cards!

butterfly footprint art. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

These Adorable Butterfly Footprints make wonderful keepsakes and a great Mother’s Day Craft too!

butterfly bubble wands

Butterfly Bubble Wands DIY – yep, we love a bubble wand!! Make your own Bubble Recipe and your summer play is sorted!

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A little but of Summer Science for toddlers, with these oh so cute and easy Balancing Butterflies crafts!

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And we love recycling old crayons. Turn your crayons into pretty Melted Crayon Butterflies!

Butterfly Suncatchers tissue paper craft

And yes.. more More Suncatchers for toddlers! Love these simple tissue paper butterfly suncatchers!

DIY-costumes-butterfly-wings. Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers - great summer crafts for kindergarten and up.. love these adorable Butterfly Activities #butterflies #summer #preschoolers

These adorable Cardboard Box Butterfly Wings make a great collaborative project for a parent and child and the result is SO CUTE!

Butterfly Crafts for Kids and Young at Heart

Next we have the some wonderful Butterfly DIYs for slightly older kids and the Young at Heart.

Easy Butterfly Bookmark Corners - we are hooked on making these different bookmarks! So fun! So easy.

No craft collection here on Red Ted Art would be complete without another Corner Bookmark.. it took some time for me to come up with this Easy Butterfly Bookmark Corner design, but I think it is just perfect!

I know I put these Paper Butterflies in the “older” section, but you could give these a try with preschool or Kindergarten kids too. Super lovely and easy Paper Butterflies

We love Easy Origami for Kids Projects! Learn how to make these easy Origami Butterfly Bookmarks

Or these 3d Paper Butterflies with step by step instructions

Pop Up Butterfly card

How to make a Pop Up Butterfly Card – again, an easy technique to make a beautiful pop up card!

butterfly quilled

Paper Quilled Butterflies – this is a great step by step paper quilling tutorial for beginners. Use these quilled butterflies for greeting cards or turn them into earrings or brooches.

butterfly wings

Gorgeous Butterfly Wings from Fun in the Making

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Milk Carton Butterfly Mobile

Origami Butterflies how to - easy paper butterflies for children to learn and get into paper crafts

Super easy Origami Butterflies

Fun paper butterfly craft for kids

Another Origami Butterfly Version

Spring Crafts Butterflies

Milk Carton Butterflies

Butterfly Art

Butterfly Canvas

Butterfly-craft

Toothpick Butterfly Crafts

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Butterfly Pencils

butterfly snack bags

Butterfly Snack Bags

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Recycled Butterfly Wreath

Crochet Butterflies

Simple Crochet Butterfly Pattern

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Folded Paper Butterflies

butterfly pasta shells

Bow Tie Pasta Butterflies

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Marble Painting Butterflies

butterfly crown

Butterfly Crown

loom band butterfly charm

Loom Band Butterflies

butterfly bookmark crochet pattern

Butterfly Bookmark Crochet Pattern

DIY Butterfly Feeders

Finally some super duper quick and easy Butterfly Feeders to encourage wild life into the garden or school playground!

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Butterfly Feeders – what a wonderful idea!

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Another fab butterfly feeder idea

If you loved our butterfly crafts, you may also like these super duper cute Ladybug Crafts for Kids:

Ladybug crafts for kids