DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Letter B Butterfly
Paper Craft
Grownups probably remember making this cute little fellow
when they were little. It is made from two capital letter
B's (one a mirror image) with a body in the middle. It's a
good project to do as part of a letter recognition exercise!
You can use the same idea to make a caterpillar with a C, a
snake with an S and a worm with a W.
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Materials:
- something to color with
- scissors
- glue
- printer and paper
- Optional: letter B items to decorate the wings -- my
favorite is Bingo Daubers you can add dots with -- you can call the
dots "bubbles" or "blops" to further reinforce the "b" message.
Instructions:
- Print out the template of choice -- you can print the B&W
version on colored paper instead of using the color version if you
wish to save ink.
- Color the template pieces (if using the B&W version)
- Cut out the template pieces (young children may need help with this step
but these pieces are fairly easy for beginner scissor users to cut
out)
- Arrange the B's side by side as wings -- one should be a mirror
image of the other.
- Assemble the butterfly:
- Glue the circle (head) to the smaller body oval
- Add the larger body oval to the bottom to complete the body
- Glue the antennas onto the head
- Glue the wings onto either side of the body
- Optional: Decoarte the wings with Buttons or Bingo
daubers.
Printing the Template:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
Template 1 (letter B) color
or B&W
Template 2 (mirror B) color
or B&W
Template 3 (body) color
or B&W
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