Today we are sharing a beautiful tissue paper butterfly project for kids to make to celebrate the arrival of spring or summer break! This easy butterfly craft is such a fun butterfly craft idea to make with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders as it is super simple to make with stunning results! Print our free printable butterfly printable template to make this butterfly craft for kids.
Tissue paper butterfly craft
My kids love butterflies and have been spotting them around everywhere now that it’s warm outside. We recently went a nature walk looking for butterflies and other pollinators. We were surprised to see several different kinds of butterflies with different colors and designs. I love doing tissue paper crafts; there are so many ways to use it! This pretty tissue paper butterfly is a fun butterfly craft to make with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students. This simple butterfly craft for preschoolers is sure to be a hit with kids. Plus this summer craft for preschool or spring craft for kids will brighten your windows with cheerful, happy, colorful butterflies!
Butterfly Printable Template
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Tissue paper butterfly
All you need to make this butterfly craft are a few simple materials you probably already have on hand.
Materials:
- butterfly printable template (outline I used or various templates at bottom of post)
- black crayon
- tissue paper in different colors
- scissors
- school glue (and a bit of water)
- small bowl or plate
- paint brush
Butterfly tissue paper craft
Print the butterfly template then cut out tissue paper in a few different shapes: rectangle, square, oval, circle, and triangle.
HINT: Stack the tissue paper to cut many shapes at a time.
Butterfly tissue paper craft
First, use a black crayon to make designs on your butterfly wings.
Tissue Paper Butterflies
Next, spread some glue across the top of the butterfly
Begin to lay tissue paper on top of the glue to fill in the butterfly shape. Don’t worry if the tissue paper goes over the black lines you drew, they will be revealed later more in a later step.
Tissue paper butterflies for kids’
Continue until the wings are deigned to your liking. It’s OK if the edges aren’t stuck down at this point, because that comes next.
tissue paper butterflies
After the wings are filled in, it is time to use the thinner glue in the bowl. Use a paint brush with the glue to smooth the tissue paper pieces pieces and edges down.
HINT: I also put some glue in a shallow bowl and added just a little bit of water to make it more spreadable for use with a paintbrush.
You’ll see that as you paint the watery glue over the tissue paper, the black lines that were drawn earlier are seen again and has a really neat effect.
how to make butterflies out of tissue paper
Let dry completely, and then cut the butterfly out.
Isn’t it pretty!?
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 Printables
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
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- Butterfly Suncatcher Craft
- Simple Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly Craft for Kids
- Pop-up Butterfly Craft
- Pasta butterfly craft
Kids Activities
Looking for more fun kids activities and other ideas to keep kids engaged, learning, and having fun? Check out these:
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- Baking Soda Clay
- Amazing Baking Soda Slime
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- 25+ Water Balloon Games for Summer fun
- Epic Squirt Gun Painting
- Van Gogh Starry Night Aluminum Foil Art Project
- Our favorite 2 ingredient slime is great for any time of the year!
Things to Do with Kids
- Edible Peanut Butter Playdough
- Shape Recognition Activity for Kids
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- Grass Head Summer Activity for Kids
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- Beautiful Capillary Action Experiment
- Puffy Paint Recipes and Projects for Kids
- Kool Aid Watermelon Playdough
- LOTS of Fun Sidewalk Chalk Games
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Summer Science
There are so many fun ways to play and teach kids about chemical reactions using a baking soda and vinegar reaction. Here are some of our favorite baking soda and vinegar activities.
- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF! Rocket Baking Soda and Vinegar Experiment
- Lemon Volcano are an EPIC Summer Experiment for Kids
- Mentos and Soda Experiment
- Outrageous Leak Proof Bag Science Experiments for Kids
- Heat Sensitivie Color Changing Slime Recipe
- 100 Exciting Year-Round Science Experiments for Kids
- Rainbow Activities for Preschoolers
- How to Make a Newton’s Cradle Science Expeirment
Tissue paper butterfly template
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