Folded Butterfly

Mate­ri­als: Paint, Paint Brushes, Paper

Draw the but­ter­fly body. It isn’t nec­es­sary to draw the wings, I just did it because I wasn’t sure how it would turn out with­out the wings so I tried it both ways.

Paint one side of the wing.

Fold and press on the part where the paint is so that the paint dis­trib­utes evenly.

Open up and you should have two wings that look simlar.

Deen actu­ally tried this activ­ity by him­self first before I did the above but­ter­fly with him.

See how sur­prised he was…
“mama WOW look… see!!!”

This is what his looked like after he folded it… pretty huh? still looks like a but­ter­fly even with­out draw­ing the wings.

Then we tried to make a caterpillar.

Paint cir­cles around one side of the paper for the cater­pil­lar body.

Close. Press on paper. Open up.

Draw legs and a face. You can leave it as is but I thought it would be nice to have a nice long caterpillar.

We cut the paper in the mid­dle and then taped it to the side.

Now we had two caterpillars.

Mama finds Kids find this activ­ity fascinating.

Orig­i­nal tuto­r­ial for but­ter­fly found here.

Have you tried this? or plan to? Please leave a link in the com­ments sec­tion with what you drew for this activ­ity. We’d love to do this again using dif­fer­ent paintings.