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Easy Paper Plate Butterfly Craft {Plus Free Butterfly Printables Packet}

April 26, 2017 By Angie Kauffman · PRINTABLES TIP: Always go toward the end of a post to find the printable. · Disclosure: This Post May Contain Affiliate Links. {I may be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.}

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Butterflies are such cool insects, aren’t they? I have always loved not only the fact that caterpillars become butterflies, but also that it feels exciting to see a butterfly flying by. Okay – maybe that’s just me. Either way – most kids love seeing butterflies, so in this post, I’m sharing instructions for making an easy paper plate butterfly craft, as well as a free to download butterfly printables packet!

Easy Paper Plate Butterfly Craft {Plus a Free to Download Butterfly Printables Packet!} | Real Life at Home

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Easy Paper Plate Butterfly Craft

Materials Needed for Easy Paper Plate Butterfly Craft

  • Paint and paintbrush
  • Paper plate
  • Glitter
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Two pipe cleaners

Materials Needed for Paper Plate Butterfly Craft Project

Instructions for Easy Paper Plate Butterfly Craft

Step One: Cut two triangles out of the top and bottom of the plate to create the butterfly body.

Step one of the paper plate butterfly craft
Step Two: Paint the plate the color (or colors) of your choice and allow it to completely dry.

Step Two of the Paper Plate Butterfly Craft

Step Three: Place the dried painted plate on top of another clean plate (or another easy-to-clean surface) to help keep the glitter from making a mess.

Make dots, as well as any other desired designs, with glue.

Step Three of Butterfly Craft with Paper Plates

Step Four: Sprinkle some glitter on top of the glue and gently shake the excess glitter off onto the bottom plate.

Step Four of Paper Plate Butterfly Craft Project

Step Five: Twist the pipe cleaners together half way up and form antennas toward the top. Glue the pipe cleaners to the center of the butterfly.

Easy and Inexpensive Paper Plate Butterfly Craft

Ta da!

You have your paper plate butterfly completed!

A fun follow up (or starting point) for this activity is to work on the free, instant download butterfly printables packet also in this post.


Free Butterfly Printables Packet

Free Butterfly Printables Packet {Plus step-by-step instructions for an easy and inexpensive paper plate butterfly craft} | Real Life at Home

Contents of the Butterfly Printables Packet

The butterfly printables packet is a six page download. Included in the packet:

  • A cover page
  • Two tracing pages
  • One letter recognition page (finding the letter B)
  • One visual discrimination page (finding the largest item in each row)

Terms of Use for the Butterfly Printables Packet

This Butterfly printables packet download is free for personal, classroom, and large group use. Please just be sure that the URL for Real Life at Home appears at the bottom of the pages when reproducing this packet for a class or large group.

It cannot be sold, published, or hosted on other websites. If you want to pass along the printable though, please feel free to share a link to this post (not directly to the printable) with others. Thanks! (There are additional terms of use here.)

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Download the Free Butterfly Printables Packet

Another Paper Plate Craft for Kids:

This easy paper plate car craft for kids is sure to please your car-loving kids. This paper plate craft is inexpensive to create and simple to put together. This post also contains information about a free printable car-themed learning packet for preschoolers.

Paper Plate Car Craft for Kids

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About Angie Kauffman

Angie, mom to three very fun kids, is the founder of Real Life at Home.  With degrees in elementary education (B.A.) and special education (M.S.Ed.), as well as being a former homeschooler, she is passionate about supporting both parents and teachers by providing printables, crafts, and activities to help children learn and grow.

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