If you’re looking for a creative and easy craft idea, then you’ll love this colorful butterfly craft made with coffee filters and pipe cleaners!
This fun butterfly craft is perfect for a rainy day or a lazy afternoon at home, and it’s a great way to foster your child’s creativity while also helping them develop their fine motor skills.
So grab your supplies and let’s get started on this exciting DIY project that your kids are sure to love!
Coffee Filter Butterfly Craft
Butterfly crafts are a classic for Spring time. These beautiful mini beasts are popular with kids of all ages, and fill us with awe and delight.
Learning about butterflies is a great way to bring in the animal lifecycles topic, since the lifecycle of a butterfly is one of the coolest ones in the animal kingdom!
Simple butterfly crafts are a fun way to work on fine motor skills and creativity.
With this butterfly craft, you can also look at color mixing as your child experiments and mixes the shades of different colors with the watercolor paint.
Supplies
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For this butterfly activity, you will need some simple watercolor paints. Any brand will do! You can use block watercolor palette or if you prefer, liquid watercolors.
Buy watercolor paint on Amazon or at any local craft store or supermarket.
You can also pick up coffee filters on Amazon. If your coffee machine is not the type that uses filters, it’s still worth keeping a pack with your craft supplies as they are a pretty versatile craft material. Be sure to buy the white ones so that your watercolors can show up with vibrant colors.
Here’s how to make your own coffee filter butterfly step by step… this colorful craft is so much fun.
Watercolor Coffee Filter Butterfly Craft for Kids
Get ready for a fluttery fun time with this exciting and simple butterfly craft!
Create your own kaleidoscope of colorful butterflies using watercolor painted coffee filters, bendy pipe cleaners, and sparkly pegs.
Watch as your creations take flight and add a pop of color to any room.
It's the perfect activity for kids who love to get creative and explore their imaginations.
So spread your wings and let your creativity soar with this delightful butterfly craft that's fun for kids of all ages
Materials
- White coffee filters
- Watercolors
- Sparkly clothespins
- Sparkly pipe cleaners
Tools
- Scissors
- Paintbrushes
Instructions
- Begin by gathering a white coffee filter and watercolor paints. We like to put our coffee filter on paper plates to keep the paint contained.
- Start painting the coffee filter with the watercolors.
- Paint in any design and with any colors you like, in lots of different ways. Get creative!
- Once the coffee filters are fully painted, let the paint dry completely
- For the next step, when the paint is dry, cut the coffee filter in half.
- Cut a pipe cleaner in half, too
- Bring the two halves of the coffee filter together.
- Then twist one of the pipe cleaners around the center of the coffee filter ro create the butterfly shape. You will need to make sure the two ends of the pipe cleaner are unwrapped.
- Insert the coffee filter into the clasp of a clothespin, with the two ends of the pipe cleaner sticking out from the top. The clothespin will be the butterfly body.
- Shape the coffee filter butterfly wings
- Finally, curl the ends of the pipe cleaner, with each piece of pipe cleaner going in the opposite direction to form antennae.
Notes
Variation: If you are not able to find coffee filters, you can substitute the watercolor painted coffee filters, for colored tissue paper or crepe paper for a fun tissue paper butterfly craft that's easy for young children.
This version is quicker and with less mess, and is a way to make an easy paper butterfly.
Kids will love making their own clothespin butterfly, with rainbow coffee filter wings! It’s such an easy spring craft, and the cute little butterflies are just adorable.
Making these easy butterfly crafts together is a lovely way to spend quality time, whether with little kids or older children. It’s the perfect craft for Spring time creativity!
More Spring Craft Ideas
If you loved this beautiful butterfly craft, then check out some more of our creative projects and fun activity ideas.
Here are a few more colorful and easy Spring crafts that the kids are going to love!
- Rainbow Sun Catcher Shadow Art
- Toilet Paper Rolls Bumble Bee Craft
- Fine Motor Paper Cutting Rainbow Craft
- Dried Pressed Flowers Suncatcher Craft
- Thumbprint Popsicle Stick Flowers
- Tissue Paper Butterflies Craft
- Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly Craft
- Paper craft Flowers
Fun Free Spring Printables
We hope you enjoyed all of those fun ideas. Don’t forget to print out a few of these simple educational spring themed free printables for kids too!
- Color by Number Spring Coloring Pages
- Spring Nature Scavenger Hunt Printable
- Rainbow Poem for Kids (Free Printable Worksheet)
- Free Printable Butterfly Colouring Pages
- Free Printable Bugs Coloring Pages
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Anna Marikar, mum of four and seasoned blogger, has spent over a decade sharing her parenting journey and passion for kid-friendly crafts and free printables.
Her easy-to-follow craft ideas and practical parenting advice have transformed In The Playroom into a cherished resource for parents.
This coffee filter butterfly craft is absolutely delightful! I love how colorful and vibrant the butterflies turn out with the watercolor paints. It’s a great activity to engage children’s creativity and fine motor skills. Thank you for sharing this fun and easy craft idea!