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Earth Day Craft: Beautiful Butterflies

By Cindy Hopper

Decorate for Spring and Earth Day with these beautiful butterflies.

Coffee filter butterflies These butterflies are simple to make with very little supplies!

Supplies for Coffee Filter Butterflies

* Coffee Filters
* Watercolor Paints
* Paintbrush
* Paper towel
* Googly eyes
* Clothes pins
* Glue

How to make Coffee Filter Butterflies

Completely wet coffee filter and squeeze out extra water. Paint the entire coffee filter with watercolors.
a child painting coffee filter for butterfly craft
Paint the entire clothespin with watercolors. They could also be colored with markers.
painting clothespins
Allow coffee filter to completely dry. Gather the coffee filter into the middle of the clothes pin. Glue googly eyes to the top end.
clothespin and coffee filter butterfly craft
To make butterflies fly, attach fishing line to them and hang from the ceiling. We hot glued mini clothes pins (with the metal spring) to the backs so our butterflies could sit on our spring branches.
paper butterfly crafts hanging in a tree

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About the Author

Cindy Hopper

Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has cont...

Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has continued her love of art and is now passing her creative skills on to her three children. Cindy’s family and friends are the beneficiaries of her passion for fun and meaningful creative projects.

Cindy’s personal blog, Skip to My Lou, has taken her love of a project to new levels. Postings keep the family busy -– from testing new recipes for holiday treats to designing and building floats for a neighborhood parade to making fabric rolls to hold crayons to creating themed parties. Cindy seems to have an unending supply of ideas for gifts, parties and rainy days.

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