DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Candy Valentine Butterfly (or Dragonfly)
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This is a great craft/Valentine card/Valentine treat for children to make for their friends, family or classmates.
My youngest daughter calls it a butterfly and my oldest calls it a dragonfly.
Thanks to Georgia for sending this idea in!
Aunty Lisa adds: if you're a scrapbooker, you can use a scrapbook heart punch to quickly punch out perfect little heart shaped wings!
Materials:
- paper,
- glue,
- scissors
- small candy bars (mini bars) or stick of gum
Instructions:
- Print out the Valentine's Day template of choice.
- Color (if making the black and white craft).
- Cut out the template pieces.
- Glue pieces together:
- Glue the leaves onto the flower.
- Glue the small candy bar or gum stick on as the body of the butterfly (dragonfly).
- Glue the smaller hearts inside the larger ones to make fancy wings.
- Glue one wing on either side of the candy bar.
- Glue the circle to the front of the candy bar as a head.
- Glue the eyes or wiggly eyes onto the circle.
Craft Templates:
- Close template window when done 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 (color) or (B&W)
Quick Version:
If you're making cards like this for an entire classroom,
doing cut and paste crafts for all of them will take a long time.
The templates below provide an alternative that's a fair bit quicker
when making cards in bulk.
- Print out the craft template.
- Cut the template in half (each template makes two cards).
- Color or paint the template if using the black and white version.
Cut out a bunch of construction paper hearts (fold
the construction paper a few times and cut a half heart shape to
make a bunch of same size hearts at once)- Glue the two construction paper hearts on as wings
- Tape a small bar (Mars, Starburst, Aero, etc) on as a body.
Craft Templates:
- Close template window when done 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 (color) or (B&W)
Printable version of these instructions