Butterfly Week Crafts

1. Caterpillar: Use egg cartons. Cut in half lengthwise. Add pipe cleaners for antennae. Add facial features with permanent markers. Let children color or paint the caterpillars.


2. Cocoons: Let children wrap cotton batting around a craft stick or a small tree branch to simulate a cocoon.


3. Butterfly: Using tempera paint, paint the bottom of the children's feet. Have paper nearby and have them put one foot down towards the bottom of the paper. Then put the heel for the other food down, touching the toe of the other foot. This will become the butterfly body. Then paint children's hands and place on on either side of the body to create the wings. After the paint has fried, decorate the wings by gluing small paper or bits of fabric to it.


4. Finger paint: Using finger paint, let children create caterpillars and butterflies.


5. Roly Caterpillar: Have children cut out round colored circles to form a caterpillar. Add facial features. Then glue the caterpillar onto white construction paper.