Create some stunning and unique butterfly crafts for kids this spring or summer. We have some super creative butterfly craft ideas for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. These pretty butterfly crafts for preschoolers are sure to be a hit as a spring craft for kids or a summer craft for kids!
Butterfly Activities
These bright, colorful, and creative Butterfly Crafts for Kids are perfect to celebrate spring and summer when we see butterflies fluttering around the garden in our backyards. Try our butterfly craft ideas with kids of all ages from preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students. Most of these butterfly crafts for toddlers are projects that use common supplies you probably already have on hand in your homes.
Whether you are a parent, teacher, or you eschooler, you will love these butterfly projects to go along with a spring theme or a butterfly theme in your classroom or at home.
Butterfly craft ideas
Grab some craft sticks, clothespins, pipe cleaners, coffee filters, and even bow tie pasta to try these super cute butterfly craft ideas!
- Marbled Paper Butterfly Craft from The Artful Parent
- Cupcake Liner Butterfly Craft from Crafty Morning
- Coffee Filter Butterfly from Parenting
- Noodle Butterflies from How Dose She
Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers
From making a pretty suncatcher for your window to a butterfly puppet kids can play with, a stunning collage of colorful butterflies and a recycled egg carton butterfly project – we’ve got a lot of fun ideas to engage kids!
- Butterfly Suncatcher from Minieco
- Paper Bag Butterfly from I Heart Crafty Things
- 3D Butterfly Artwork from Whatever . . .
- Egg Carton Butterfly from Crafty Morning
Butterfly Craft Preschool
Don’t throw out those toilet paper rolls, tp rolls make a great base for so many crafts included several very unique butterfly projects!
- TP Butterfly Craft from Bo Bunny
- Toilet Paper Roll Butterflies from Twig and Toadstool
- Preschool Butterfly Craft from Arty Crafty Kids
- Painted Paper Butterflies from Deep Space Sparkle
Butterfly Crafts for Toddlers
We love hand art at our house. THere is nothing sweeter for me to look at as my kids grow up than the sweet keepsake of handprint crafts that capture those cute little hands that use to hold mine.
- Hand Print Butterflies from Babble
- Footprint Butterfly Flower Pot from Mama Papa Buba
- Footprint Canvas Art from The Frugal Girls
- B is for Butterfly from Crystal and Co.
Spring crafts for preschoolers
Let’s move on to some fun bead crafts to improvve fine motor skills, cute dot marker and craft stick projects and of course fun ideas to make butterflies with paint!
- Pony Bead Butterfly from Where Imagination Grows
- Fun-to-Make Popsicle Stick Butterfly Craft from I Heart Crafty Things
- Apple Print Butterflies from I Heart Crafty Things
- Aluminum Foil Butterflies from I Heart Crafty Things
Butterfly crafts
Make some life-size butterfly wings or cute pompom and chenille stick butterflies.
- Butterfly Wings from Fun at Home with Kids
- Simple Butterfly Washi Tape Craft from Artsy Momma
- Pom Pom Butterflies from Squigly’s Arts & Crafts
- Morpho Butterfly Craft from Kid World Citizen
- Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Party from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
Butterfly craft for kids
FInally, try making some butteflies with tissue paper, twigs, salt dough, and more!
- Contact Paper Butterfly from I Heart Crafty Things
- Crayon Shaving Butterflies from Two Daloo
- Dye Art Butterflies from Kids Activities Blog
- Clay Butterflies from Nurture Store
Butterfly Activities for Kids
Looking for more fun butterfly activities, butterfly crafts, and butterfly printables to add to your day or butterfly theme? Try these:
- Butterfly Math – addition mats for pre-k and kindergarteners
- Number Sense butterfly activities for preschoolers
- Free printable Butterfly missing addend game for Kindergarten
- Count to 10 Butterfly Math Ten Frame Punch Cards
- Butterfly Addition Puzzles
- Kindergarten Butterfly Addition and Subtraction Worksheets
- Free Counting Butterflies Worksheets
Butterfly Printables
- FREE Printable Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheets
- Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet Pack for kids
- Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet and Observation Book
- B is for Butterfly activities for toddler and preschoolers
- Butterfly Puzzles Printable Rhyming Games
- Free printable Butterfly Life Cycle PrintablesÂ
Butterfly Crafts
Looking for more fun butterfly activities, butterfly crafts, and butterfly printables to add to your day or butterfly theme? Try these:
- Try this crafty science project to make stunning chromatography butterflies
- Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft for Kids
- 29 Pretty Butterfly Crafts for Kids
- Shaving Cream Butterfly Craft
- Butterfly Life Cycle Crafts w/ Free Printables
Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers
- Cute Bowtie Pasta Butterfly Craft for Kids
- Pasta Butterfly Crafts for Kids
- Butterfly Suncatcher Craft
- Simple Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly Craft for Kids
- Pop-up Butterfly Craft
- Pasta butterfly craft
Spring Science
Check out these outrageously FUN spring science experiments for kids:
- Beautiful Chromatography Flowers made with science!
- Amazing Food Coloring Flower Experiment Worksheet where you can turn a flower into two seperate colors!
- Have you tried making butter experiment
- Colorful Jelly Bean Experiment exploring difusion and color matching with a simple activity for kids
- You’ve got to try this simple Color Changing Slime
- Simply Rainbow Density Experiment for springtime
- How Big is a Raindrop – try this raindrop experiment to find out!
- Egg Drop Challenge with marshmallows!
- You’ve got to try this Lego Balloon Car
- Make a popsicle stick catapult
- Colorful Polymer Chemistry Experiment
- MUST try capillary action experiment
- Lego DIY Zipline for your backyard
- How to Make a Weather Vane the EASY way
- Pop Rocks Experiment kids will LOVE!