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Butterfly Art
Contact_FullName: Marie Contact_Email: twinfla@aol.com Area: butterflies Idea: For a neat looking butterfly. I cut the Ziploc part off but kept the other end together. let the kids paint one side of the bag then let it dry then wrapped a pipe cleaner around the center for the body and antennas. the kids loved doing it and the parents loved it. Contact_FullName: Jennifer Contact_Email: irican2003@aol.com Area: butterflies-art Idea: I fold a paper in half. I cut a butterfly shape out. Then I cut the middle out still making a butterfly shape. I put contact paper onto one side. Cut up colorful tissue paper into squares (any shape works) Have the children place the tissue onto the sticky side. Once done run it through the laminator. You have a stained glass looking butterfly to place in the windows. I also do the same thing using construction paper shape butter flies (9 to 12 inches) Have the children paint paper towel rolls (the cardboard) use tissue paper squares and have them glue them onto the butterfly. Once dry, staple the painted paper towel for the butterflies body. Glue google eyes or have them draw the face. cute for bulletin board saying "fluttering into spring" Contact_FullName: Gianna Contact_Email: pcdforever101@hotmail.com Area: Spring-Art Idea: I had an idea for a Spring party and its where the teacher makes a large cutout of a butterfly or trace it on bulletin board paper and lay that out on a table and have the kids paint the butterfly with their hands Contact_FullName: Amy Contact_Email: yomabarker@hotmail.com Area: butterfly-art Idea: give each child a sheet of paper, have the children color designs on them. Have them fold their papers accordion style. Take a long piece of yarn (about a yard in length. Tie in center of accordion folded paper. Fan out the sides to make wings. Viola! The kids have their own butterflies that they can take and run around an open space and make them fly. Contact_FullName: Carly Contact_Email: cookiem86@netscape.com Area: Butterflies-Art Idea: Clothespin Butterflies: Have cups of water mixed with food coloring colors (red cup, blue cup, etc..) and have children dip eyedroppers into the different colors and squeeze onto coffee filters. Once the kids have 'tie-died' the coffee filter, let them dry. When they are dry, have kids scrunch coffee filters into milk bottle clothespins (look like wings) then place dots for eyes on the clothespin heads and wrap pipe cleaners around for antennas. Makes a beautiful craft and my preschool class really seemed to enjoy it. Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net Area: butterflies-art Idea: Buy all those pretty colors of Easter grass on clearance after the holiday! Then let the kids stuffs little plastic baggies with a little of each color. Tie off with a pretty pipe cleaner and the kids have a real pretty butterfly! Contact_FullName: Kara Contact_Email: iteach2s@hotmail.com Area: Butterflies-Art Idea: Take a piece of white construction paper and trace the child's feet. Then fold the paper in half. Place a few drops of paint in the fold and fold the paper again, making sure to get the paint evenly over both folded sides. Contact_FullName: Sooty Contact_Email: tarr@arcom.com.au Area: Butterfly Art Idea: To make giant butterflies-fold very large pieces of paper in half...fill squeeze/sauce bottles with liquid paint (reasonably thick) Let several children squeeze paint onto one side of paper, then fold and all squish! Cut out as butterfly shape. Makes butterflies as big as your paper and is a great cooperative/team activity. Contact_FullName: Cris Contact_Email: torchc@hotmail.com Area: Caterpillar-Science & Art Idea: This is a great activity we did at my daughters preschool last year. Art Activities: Caterpillar: supplies needed: popsicle stick, 8 mini pompom balls (colorful ones), glue, googley eyes. Each child gets a stick and glues pompoms onto it in a row. then glues two eyes at one end. Butter fly: supplies needed: coffee filters, food coloring, water containers, eye droppers, pipe cleaners. twist pipe cleaners around middle of the coffee filter to pinch it together and make butterflies. fill small containers with colored water, use droppers to drip the color onto the coffee filter till it is colorful. let it dry. Science: you'll need a empty toilet paper roll or paper towel roll. Stuff your coffee filter butter fly into the tube then talk about how a caterpillar eats and eats, cocoons itself into the roll then as you push it thru the butterfly pops out the other end. Use the story Eric Carr's "Very Hungry caterpillar" to make this activity even more enjoyable. I used real food and reenacted the story at home. My kids ate the food each time and wanted more! Great for snack time too! Contact_FullName: DeeDee Contact_Email: missdeedee@juno.com Area: Bug Art Idea: Ziplock Bag Butterflies Partially fill a snack size bag with small torn ( or for cutting practice-let them cut up small pieces of paper) pieces of construction paper. Add in some sequins and/or glitter and zip shut. Tie around the middle with a pipe cleaner, dividing it into wings. Very cute hung from ceiling. Contact_FullName: carolyn Contact_Email: bobandcayo@yahoo.com Area: butterfly - art Idea: Sun Catcher Butterflies - Cut out a symmetrical butterfly shape. Children use a hole puncher to make holes in the wings. The child glues scraps of tissue paper to the back of the butterfly. Hang in the window. Contact_FullName: Carrie Contact_FullName: Rita Contact_Email: preshool_queen@yahoo.com date:: 3-10-02 Idea: Supplies- old fashion cloths pins, snack size zip lock baggie, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, and wiggly eyes. Let children cut up pieces tissue paper and put then in baggie. Divide baggie down center slide in to cloths pin. Twisted pipe cleaner around knot on top part of cloths pin, add wiggly eyes.
ideaMy son made this butterfly in his kindergarten class. Teacher cuts out a large butterfly out of white construction paper. Kids take different colors and shapes of tissue paper and cover the butterfly with them. After it is covered, take a spray bottle and spray the tissue paper until it is very wet. Let dry and then peel off each piece of tissue and it is a beautiful colorful butterfly.
Contact_FullName: Michelle Contact_Email: mickey21169@aol.com date:: 03-09-02 Area: Butterfly Art Idea: We used yarn and popsicle sticks to make cocoons. The children just wrapped the tarn around the stick until they thought it looked like a cocoon.
10-6-00Butterfly Surprise You will need : tongue depressors green pompoms or green cotton balls White sheet of construction paper markers glue crayons sequins glitter what ever art materials your children can decorate their white paper with. First make a caterpillar glue pom poms or cotton balls on tongue depressors. Let dry. Teachers you need to draw wings on the white construction paper before hand. Then let children decorate with art materials. After decorating let children glue caterpillar in the middle of paper. Roll each child's paper around caterpillar and put rubber band around to make cocoon. After a couple of days during nap or when children are not there cut butterflies out. Children will be surprised to see their caterpillars turned into butterflies.
8-21-00Butterfly painting: Fold a sheet of paper in half. Open up and add 2 or 3 colors of paint. Close at fold and rub all over. Open up and find a beautiful butterfly. Great to do after reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".
To make really neat butterflies Take a sheet of white paper fold it down the center put a drop of paint in the center. then put a different color in next to it on one half fold and smash make sure to really spread the paint all over the paper they make really neat butterflies!
I am adding a step to the wonderful coffee filter idea. Take a coffee filter, color with washable markers, spray lightly, all the colors will run together. Now pinch the filter in the middle until it resembles butterfly wings. Place this in a clothespin. Add pipe cleaner antennae and two marker eyes. You may add a magnet strip on the back, and voila! A clothespin butterfly to hang on the fridge. ideaInstead of doing handprints, try using foot prints. We made butterflies with the children's feet, put the left foot on the right side and the right foot on the left side, leaving a space between to add a black construction paper body. Decorate as desired. We matted and framed them then added this poem. Beautiful butterfly, Precious and sweet. Strange how it looks, Just like (child's name) feet!
I cut butterfly shapes out of contact paper and then I let the children collage them with tissue or construction paper. after we roll up some pipe cleaners and add them for antennae...we have a beautiful butterfly! I usually hang them from the ceiling or put them in the window.
Coffee Filter Butterflies supplies: coffee filters food coloring pipe cleaners Give each child a coffee filter. Put food coloring in water and place them out. Have the kids dip their fingers in the colored water and let it drip onto their coffee filter. Let the filter dry then take it and bunch the sides together and twist the pipe cleaner around the middle. Take the ends of the pipe cleaner and curl them to make antennas. |
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