Art Curriculum- Week 25- Butterfly DIY

Week 25- Butterfly DIY

Category: Spring/Easter

We reviewed our Easter Colors.

What you will need:

-ruler

-pencil

-construction paper (2 shades to every butterfly or solid colors as you wish)

-scissors

-stapler

-pipe cleaner

Time: 1 hour + prep time

I found this project from a post on Pinterest.

Prep: (if you have square paper you can skip the first 2 steps pictured below)

Otherwise:

• Fold the paper as pictured in section 1 below.
  
• Cut off the excess. This will give you a square piece of paper.
  
• Using the center crease as a marking point, use your ruler to draw lines across the entire page.

Activity:

• Have the kids fold along the lines back and forth in an accordion fold. Some may struggle with this at first. Encourage them not to hurry. A lot of them made sloppy creases that had to be fixed.
  
• Put the 2 folded squares next to each other (section 4 pictured below)
  
• Staple the inside folds of the papers together.
  
• Tie the pipe cleaner (try to make the ends of equal length) and bend the ends to resemble butterfly antennae.
  
• We ended up having to staple almost all edges together to keep the wings outspread. The accordion fold won't want to stay outspread.

Related blog posts:

-Easter Colors
-Easter Crosses (egg cartons)
-Blooming Beauties (finger painting)

(logging 2 hours for prep and execution)