We’re all set to celebrate National Dragonfly Day on 12th June with these delightful dragonfly crafts for kids! There’s something for every age group!

In her book, ‘Chasing Dragonflies’, Cindy Crosby says, “I’m inspired by how dragonflies are both tough and fragile; fierce and mild.” I think people often miss this part about dragonflies – they look so fragile and ethereal, we forget they’re tough too!

If you love dragonflies (like me), and would like to learn more about them, we’ve got a few book recommendations to check out!

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Fun Dragonfly Books for Kids

The Delightful Dragonfly by Karen Putz
How to be a Dragonfly by Laura Knowles, Steven Wood
How Does The Dragonfly by Connie Amarel
How to Ride a Dragonfly by Kitty Donohoe
Soar High, Dragonfly by Sheri M. Bestor

Did you know that there’s a special day to celebrate dragonflies? Yes, it’s National Dragonfly Day on the second Saturday in June, and in 2026, this falls on 13th June. If you’re looking for ways to celebrate, check out our fun and colorful dragonfly crafts for kids!

20 Delightful Dragonfly Crafts for Kids

1. Popsicle Stick Dragonfly Craft

This project right here proves that all you need are pipe cleaners and Popsicle sticks to make dragonfly crafts for kids! Add some Googly eyes and you have a pair of cute dragonflies ready!

2. Dashing Dragonfly Papercraft for Kids

If all you have is craft paper, don’t worry – you can still make some cute dragonfly crafts for kids! Kids will enjoy rolling paper and combining all the rolls into a little dragonfly, complete with a glitter wing.

3. 3D Dragonfly Coloring Page Printable

It’s always much more fun to color in three dimensions than two! This set of coloring pages includes a sheet that features a dragonfly, and kids will have fun putting it together!

4. Clothespin Dragonfly Craft

First Palette has a cute little craft that looks like baby dragonflies! Did you know that baby dragonflies live in water? While they’re there, they have quite a varied appetite, eating tadpoles, fish, insect larvae and even other dragonfly babies!

5. Dragonfly Squish Art

One of the best places to create art when you’re making dragonfly crafts for kids is definitely the dragonfly’s wings, and The Craft Train does exactly that here! Dragonfly wings have antibacterial properties thanks to tiny nano-pillars on the wings. When bacteria come in contact with these, they can’t survive and die.

6. Beaded Pipe Cleaner Dragonflies

We love how these dragonflies from One Little Project look like they’re flying – they appear to be heading somewhere in particular! Dragonflies are amazing fliers, being able to move in multiple directions and even hover midair. Their flight has inspired engineers and scientists who are trying to create robots with similar flying patterns.

7. Sparkly Popsicle Stick Dragonfly

We know that baby dragonflies live in water, but do you know what they do when they need to move fast? They shoot water out of their butts, and this propels them forward! Have fun with this fact as you make these cute dragonflies from Made to be a Momma.

8. Colorful Q-tip Painted Dragonfly Craft

Dragonflies aren’t technically ‘flies’, since they don’t belong to the Diptera order of insects, which are considered true flies. Instead, dragonflies belong to the order Odonata, meaning ‘toothed one’ in Greek. The name is because of the dragonfly’s serrated mandible, which has the same function as teeth. Well, these dragonflies from Projects with Kids appear to belong to the ‘Q-Tip art’ order, and they look pretty!

9. Wooden Peg Dragonfly Spring Craft

Making these dragonfly crafts for kids is a good opportunity to learn about where the ‘dragon’ in dragonflies comes from! It comes from a story in Romanian folklore in which the Devil turned St. George’s horse into an insect that looked like a dragonfly. This insect was called ‘Devil’s Horse’, and since the Romanian word for ‘Devil’ is the same as for ‘dragon’, the insect got the name of ‘dragonfly’! Tell kids this fascinating story as you make this fun craft from Crafty Morning.

10. Dragonfly Tissue Paper Craft for Kids

Simple Everyday Mom has a dragonfly craft that features a dragonfly with some pretty large eyes! The fact is that dragonflies actually have five eyes, with almost 28,000 lenses! Dragonfly eyes have panoramic vision that can see almost every angle as well as ultraviolet colors and polarized light.

11. Recycled Milk Jug Dragonfly Craft

Dragonflies are cold-blooded, as all insects are, and this means that they can’t regulate their own body temperature. That’s why they need to take extra steps for temperature control, one of which is changing the colors on their wings! Kids Craft Room recreates this effect by using milk bottles to make this craft!

12. Nature Stick Dragonfly Craft

Dragonflies have a very important role in our ecosystem, and they are a source of food for spiders, frogs, fish and birds. In fact, even humans eat dragonflies – they are considered a delicacy in Indonesia! Explore more about the dragonfly’s connection with the environment as you make this nature-inspired craft from Our Kid Things.

13. Mixed Media Dragonfly Craft

Making dragonfly crafts for kids is also a good time to explore some myths and legends about dragonflies! Many people think dragonflies are signs of good fortune, while others think that dragonflies will sew your lips shut if you lie! The people of the Navajo culture believe that dragonflies are a symbol of pure water nearby. Find out more as you make this cute craft from Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls.

14. Dragonfly Craft for Preschoolers

Dragonflies may seem like delicate little creatures, but they’re actually quite hardy! Dragonfly ancestors lived before the dinosaurs, over 300 million years ago. They were massive too – dragonfly fossils have been discovered with wingspans equal to those of a crow! These cute little dragonflies from Mommy Made That have smaller wings, so they should be easy enough to make!

15. DIY Clothespin Dragonflies

Crafty Morning has a cute little pair of dragonflies, who look like they’re trying to impress each other with their shiny wings! In real life, the dragonfly mating ritual is quite different! Males try to get the female’s attention by grasping her neck. If the female isn’t interested, she’ll either play dead or try to fly away. If none of that works, she’ll simply try to push the male into a body of water and escape!

16. Pompom Dragonfly Craft for Kindergarten

All dragonfly crafts for kids will feature dragonflies with varying wingspans, and this one from Easy Peasy and Fun has rather long wings! The largest dragonflies have a wingspan of 6.3″ and live in Australia. The smallest ones are the scarlet dwarves, with a wingspan of just 0.8″ and are found in China and Japan.

17. Paper Dragonfly Craft for Spring

Dragonflies aren’t keen on group travel – they prefer doing their migration journeys solo! Dragonfly swarms are quite rare, and they are almost invisible. That probably explains why these guys from I Heart Crafty Things are going in different directions!

18. Easy Whisk Dragonfly Craft

We’ve seen that dragonflies have to find their own ways to regulate their temperature. One way they stay cool in hot weather is by doing a headstand, or staying in an ‘obelisk’ position so that as little of their body is exposed to sunlight. The dragonflies from It’s Always Autumn have gone another route, by changing the shape of a whisk!

19. Sticky Wing Dragonfly Craft

Dragonflies are among the best hunters on the planet – they catch approximately 95% of the prey they target! Mosquitoes are among their main prey, so much so that dragonflies are called ‘mosquito hawks’! Even baby dragonflies can eat up to 40 mosquitoes a day! This dragonfly from No Time for Flashcards has an easy time catching things, owing to its sticky wings!

20. Bottle Cap Dragonfly Art

Like many other creatures on our planet, dragonflies also migrate, and they take it to the next level! In fact, there is even a species of dragonfly called the ‘globe skimmer’, since it flies 11,000 miles across continents – the longest migration of any insect! Find out which other creatures migrate such long distances – as you make this cute craft from Monkey Pen!

We hope these dragonfly crafts for kids have inspired you to learn more about these wonderful creatures, who seem fragile but are tough as nails! Dragonflies often don’t get as much attention as other insects like honeybees or butterflies, so let’s put them in the spotlight for a change!

If you’d like to try out more insect crafts, check these out: