Happy Slowly Butterfly Arts And Crafts For Toddlers
December 18, 2018
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This calendar month nosotros are featuring books yesteryear Eric Carle for our Virtual Book Club for Kids! Eric Carle's birthday is on June 25th hence you lot tin convey fun doing these activities all calendar month long!
Today nosotros are sharing a uncomplicated butterfly arts and crafts for toddlers in addition to preschoolers to teach along alongside The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
Typically nosotros ever create caterpillar crafts when nosotros read The Very Hungry Caterpillar but since my kids honey the concluding page of the mass hence much that features the caterpillar turning into a butterfly... nosotros idea we'd create a butterfly arts and crafts this month! My kids convey been actually interested inwards using our Do-A-Dot markers lately, hence nosotros decided to add together them into this activity.
Materials Needed: coloring cloth structure paper, white cardstock, Do-A-Dot markers (or only regular markers... or crayons), scissors, piping cleaners, mucilage or tape
Directions:
To get-go off for this butterfly arts and crafts I only had my kids decorate a slice of newspaper alongside markers! The toddler only painted all over spell the preschooler painted on i side of the newspaper in addition to and hence folded the newspaper inwards one-half hence that the other side had the same designs. She likewise did some other version where she tried to pigment the same film on each side. It was fascinating to scout in addition to run into where each score went.
Next I cutting out a butterfly kind from the dried paintings yesteryear only folding the newspaper inwards half.
After that I cutting out some other butterfly outline that was slightly bigger (using the other butterfly image).
Next nosotros taped piping cleaner antennae to the operate yesteryear of the butterfly in addition to and hence the kiddos glued or taped the painted butterfly onto the newspaper butterfly. We to a greater extent than oft than non secured the pictures downwards the middle hence that the newspaper wings looked similar they were popping off the walls.
After the butterflies were done the kids loved making them wing some the identify in addition to and hence hanging them upwardly to demonstrate off.
Do you lot convey whatever other favorite butterfly or caterpillar crafts you lot tin part alongside me?
If you've done a mass related action that goes along alongside i of Eric Carle's books, come upwardly link it upwardly below! We'd honey to banking concern tally it out in addition to part it on our Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook page in addition to our Virtual Book Club for Kids Pinterest Board.