Butterfly Crafts For Babies

When it comes to making crafts with kids it seems like you can always find tons of crafts that you can do with older children and even preschool age children. But it seems like you can never find enough crafts that you can do with babies or even two-year olds. The good news is if you look hard enough and have enough patience you can find and do crafts with this age group as well.

Here are some simple butterfly crafts that you can do with children of all ages, including infants.

Fingerprint Butterflies

Materials

Stamp pads
Paints
Pens
Paper

Instructions

Make sure that you press firmly for this project. The reason for this is that firm presses make oval shapes and gentle presses make circle shapes. Butterflies do not have circular wings so you want to press firmly to avoid that.

Stamp your index finger into paints or onto a stamp pad. You can use one color or you can use mixed colors, depends on what effect you are looking for with the butterfly.

Make one stamp on the paper at a slight angle.

Make a second stamp that slightly overlaps the first stamp. But you want to make sure that it is at the opposite angle as the first stamp.

Stamp your pinkie or ring finger in the paint or stamp pad.

Make a third stamp below the first stamp, but make it at a downward angle.

Make a fourth stamp that overlaps the third stamp. You also want to make sure that the third stamp is at the opposite angle of the fourth stamp.

With a black marker or a thin paintbrush draw a body and antenna to finish off the project.

Heart Butterfly Paper Craft

Materials

Paper
Glue
Scissors

Instructions

Print out a template for the project at http://www.dltk-holidays.com/valentines/mbutterfly.htm

Color the picture where it is needed and where it is appropriate.

Cut out the template pieces. Keep in mind that the pieces on the template are at about the angle they will be on the finished craft. This should help you sort out which pieces belong where.

Glue the pieces together

To make a wing, glue the very large, large and medium hearts inside one another. Repeat for the second wing

To make the body, stack the smallest hearts one on top of another and glue together. Make sure that you position it so that all of the hearts are upside down.

Glue the heart with the face on it to the top of the body so that it is right side up.

If you are doing it on a background, like a card, add the two tiny hearts over the head and draw a line to make the antenna. If not using a background just skip this part.

Glue the wings onto the back of the body to finish off your butterfly.

Tips

Glue the heart butterfly to the front of a folded over piece of construction paper or a doily so that you can make a cute Valentine's Day card.

Use fancy paper from the scrapbooking store and print the black and white version onto it for an extra fancy butterfly.

To make the butterfly into a puppet tape a straw or popsicle stick to the bottom of the butterfly.

To make it into a felt board character slue a small piece of sandpaper on the back.

You can also make the butterfly into a crown by cutting 4 inch wide strips and taping the, together to make the base of the crown. Then tape the butterfly to the center of the crown for a Valentine's Day hat.