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Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft

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Shruti Acharya | April 20, 2016 | 20 Comments

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Spring is a great time for nature walks and collecting objects such as rocks, flowers, leaves, branches and seeds- all ripe for the picking by curious hands. We love kids’ crafts, especially ones that bring the outdoors inside with easy natural crafts projects featuring supplies found in nature.

This ultra sweet Stick and Leaf Butterfly  can be easily made with fresh leaves, twigs and flower petals and would make a great spring craft to create after a nature walk.

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Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft
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Kids Craft Challenge

Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft

This Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft can be easily made with fresh leaves and twigs, and would make a great spring craft to bring the outdoors inside.

 

Supplies:

  • Twigs & sticks
  • Leaves
  • Flowers
  • Scissors
  • Glue gun
  • Black Marker
  • Chalk markers in bright colors


To make the Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft:

This Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft can be easily made with fresh leaves and twigs, and would make a great spring craft to bring the outdoors inside. Gather items on your nature walk – We have a rule to not pick any item that’s still growing . Anything that’s fallen on the ground is OK to be picked up. No plucking leaves & flowers. Once home, find a place where you can spread out your treasures to decide what sort of butterflies you’d like to make. We decided to use simple sticks and some not too dry leaves. Leave the leaves and flowers pressed overnight in a thick bound book. This Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft can be easily made with fresh leaves and twigs, and would make a great spring craft to bring the outdoors inside. Using liquid chalk markers, make colorful patterns on the leaves. You could draw lines, sqiggles or dots. We used Pink, Yellow & Purple to make our patterns. Two big leaves & 2 small leaves. This Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft can be easily made with fresh leaves and twigs, and would make a great spring craft to bring the outdoors inside. Using the scissors, cut the twig to size. we had 2-inch leaves, so we kept the stick about 3 to 4 inches long. We made a tiny incision to the top of the stick and opened it up to reveal a Y shape. This will form the butterfly’s tentacles. We used a black marker to highlight the Y shape. This Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft can be easily made with fresh leaves and twigs, and would make a great spring craft to bring the outdoors inside. Using a glue gun, stick the two larger leaves to the twig as shown. Let dry. This Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft can be easily made with fresh leaves and twigs, and would make a great spring craft to bring the outdoors inside. Then stick on two smaller leaves and your Stick and Leaf Butterfly is ready! This Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft can be easily made with fresh leaves and twigs, and would make a great spring craft to bring the outdoors inside.
 

Kids Craft Challenge

Every month, we collaborate with a group of our crafty blogging friends to a do a kids craft challenge based upon the same craft material. This month is all about crafting with sticks! We invite you to share your stick crafts with us over on Instagram using the hashtag #kidscraftstars These could be popsicle sticks, sticks from nature, etc. Excited to see your crafty ideas!

KIDSCRAFTSTARS Monthly Challenge

Here’s what everyone else made for the sticks challenge:

  • DIY Stick Toys for Imaginative Play – Artsy Momma

  • Stick Snail Craft – I Heart Arts-n-Crafts

  • Origami Butterfly Stick Toys – Pink Stripey Socks

  • Easy Popsicle Stick Art Sculptures With Kids – hello, Wonderful

  • Twig Boat Craft – Easy Peasy and Fun

  • Stick Owl Craft for Kids – I heart crafty things

  • Dragonfly Stick craft – A little Pinch of Perfect

 

More art with Nature : 

  • Coolest DIY Wall Art Project for spring

  • Making Spring flowers with Okra & Beans

More Spring Crafts:

  • 72 Fun, Easy Spring Crafts for Kids

  • 20 Easy Spring Bird Crafts for Kids

More crafts for Eath Day 

  • 15 Recycled Crafts for World Environment Day

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  • 25 Recycled Styrofoam Projects for Earth Day

Filed Under: Craft Ideas For Kids, Insect Crafts, Latest Posts, Popular Posts, Preschooler Crafts & Activities, Primary school Kid Crafts & Activities, Spring, Stick Crafts Tagged With: butterfly craft for kids, butterfly craft ideas, butterfly craft making, butterfly craft work, Insect crafts, natural craft ideas, nature crafts for kids, nature lesson plans, Spring nature crafts for kids, summer nature crafts for kids

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About Shruti Acharya

Shruti is a writer, photographer, DIY lover, passionate homemaker, and the chief dreamer at ArtsyCraftsyMom.com . Shruti lives in Bangalore, India with her husband and daughter. She loves showcasing fun art activities, crafts for kids, celebrations, childrens books & all the craziness that is India.

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Comments

  1. Avatar of AmandaAmanda says

    April 20, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    It turned out so pretty! Love the colors 🙂

    Reply
  2. Avatar of MarieMarie says

    April 26, 2016 at 3:33 am

    I absolutely love this! What a creative and beautiful craft! Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday this week!

    Reply
  3. Avatar of NicoleNicole says

    April 28, 2016 at 12:54 am

    I LOVE this craft idea! It is beautiful and simple to make. It would be great to make with kids after a nature walk!! Sharing with my followers!! Thanks for sharing on Inspire Me Monday. I hope you have a spectacular week!!

    Reply
  4. Avatar of amberskycoloringamberskycoloring says

    July 2, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    It turned out so pretty! Love the colors 🙂

    Reply

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