 | a tp roll (if you cover the tp
roll in tinfoil instead of painting it, it will fly faster), |
| about 6 to 8 ft of wool (the smaller the kids,
the shorter you should make it... you can always shorten it later if you need to),
 | fishing line makes the
butterfly fly faster than wool does, but I worry about letting my kids
play with fishing line! so I stuck to wool. |
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| a printer, |
| glue, |
| scissors, |
| something to colour or paint with (I like paint
for this project as there are a lot of pieces to colour and paint goes a bit quicker --
the one in the photo above is poster painted), |
| some poster board or cardboard (empty cereal
boxes work great ... especially the Jumbo size boxes *grin*) |
| and 5 pieces of paper . |
| Print out the template (5 pages).
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| You can either just have a one sided butterfly
or,
you can print two copies of each of the template pieces for a butterfly that looks nice
from the front or the back.
| (it will take 10 pieces of paper and you can
discard the second rectangle). |
| Bigger kids will likely prefer this option, but
be forewarned... it takes twice as long to do! |
| You can make the entire craft one-sided and add
the second side later if you still have energy. This is my suggestion if you aren't
sure the children will have the patience to complete the project on both sides.
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| Colour or paint the template pieces as
appropriate.
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| Once dry, cut out the template pieces.
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| Glue the rectangular piece around the toilet
paper tube.
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| Glue the tp roll to the butterfly's body (you may
want to add a bit of tape to reinforce).
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| Assemble and glue one of the butterfly's wings
and attach it to the body.
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| Put your one winged butterfly (don't glue yet) on
your cardboard and trace around (you don't need to be exact). Cut out your
cardboard.
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| Put your cardboard cutout down on more cardboard
and trace a second piece (this is going to help you keep your wings symmetrical.
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| Glue one piece of cardboard to your one winged
butterfly.
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| Now glue your second wing template pieces to the
other piece of cardboard.
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| Glue your second wing onto the butterfly.
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| Tape down the seam of the cardboard for extra
support.
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| Glue your second set of template pieces to the
back of the cardboard if you choose to make a two sided butterfly.
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| Once dry, trim any bits of cardboard that are
showing.
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| OPTIONAL: You can cut out 6 thin strips of
paper and glue them to the tp roll as legs and 2 strips glued to the head as antenna if
you want to.
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| Fold your wool in half and tie so you have a big
loop. Put the loop through the tp roll. Have one player hold each end of the
loop. Person A should hold hands together while Person B stretches their arms (and
the wool) wide apart. This will force the butterfly to fly to the other end of the
yarn. Now switch -- Person A stretch while Person B holds hands together.
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| You can hang your butterfly up from the ceiling
when you aren't playing with him.
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