Happy Slow Sparkly Spin Fine Art Butterflies

By lucky November 29, 2018 Edit

Butterflies in addition to caterpillars are or in addition to then of our favorite Spring themes for our Virtual Book Club for Kids! This calendar week nosotros are reading Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar in addition to making sparkly spin fine art butterflies!

These sparkly butterflies offering a uncomplicated symmetry lesson AND laissez passer kids the chance to railroad train or in addition to then uncomplicated fine motor skills too.

MATERIALS NEEDED FOR SPARKLY BUTTERFLIES

cardstock
salad spinner
washable paint
liquid watercolors
white glue
popsicle sticks
googly eyes

Have you lot always tried salad spinner art? It is 1 of our all fourth dimension favorites!

HOW TO MAKE SPIN ART BUTTERFLIES

To learn started amongst spin fine art butterflies, laid about flexure a slice of newspaper inwards one-half in addition to cutting out a butterfly (see below).

Next, operate on the butterfly folded inwards one-half in addition to house it inwards the salad spinner.

Add pigment to the operate past times of the butterfly, unopen the lid, in addition to spin!

Once you lot convey tons of color on 1 one-half of your butterfly, opened upwards it upwards in addition to flexure it over in addition to press the painted side onto the blank side.

Open upwards the newspaper to let on a gorgeous butterfly that has symmetrical colors!!

To jazz these upwards a flake nosotros added or in addition to then popsicle stick bodies in addition to sparkles. You tin laissez passer the axe also merely operate out them blank in addition to they volition endure beautiful that agency too!