Spring has sprung with colorful flowers and the butterflies are aflutter to check them out! Let’s celebrate this welcomed sight with a fun craft project!

Your little ones will light up when they create this butterfly toilet paper roll craft. We’ll show you how to transform a simple cardboard tube into a colorful butterfly perfect for spring decorating.

Kids will have a blast while they work on this fun project and at the same time they’ll hone their fine motor skills, practice using scissors, and follow step-by-step directions. 

They can make their fluttering friends in their favorite colors like bright blues, sunny yellows, or pretty pinks. So gather up some colorful paper, a few basic supplies, and a toilet paper roll to have a fun afternoon of crafting.

Download our free printable template to get started, and be sure to check out even more butterfly crafts for kids to make this spring.

Butterfly Kids Craft

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Supplies

• Toilet paper rolls or new cardboard tubes
• Colored cardstock or construction paper
• Glue
• Scissors
• Tape
• Double side tape (optional)
• Butterfly template (click the “click here to get this freebie” image at the end to open the form)

Directions

Start by downloading the butterfly template and printing it out. Once you have the template printed, gather the materials needed for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this butterfly template to life!

First, guide your child to glue the stripes along the bottom part of the body.

Next, help your child to place the tape along one end of the butterfly body and stick it to the toilet paper roll.

Take the other side of the body and place another strip of tape on it.

Wrap it around the cardboard tube and tape it in place.

Fold the inner part of the butterfly wings over. This will be where you place the glue or double-sided tape. Now, take the teardrop shaped butterfly wing decoration and glue it to the top part of both wings.

Position the smaller teardrop butterfly wing decoration to the bottom of the wings and glue them in place. Take the completed butterfly wings and tape them to the sides of the cardboard tube.

Next, encourage your child to glue the antennae to the top and back of the butterfly head.

Finally, place glue on the middle of the butterfly head and tape or glue it to the top of the butterfly body.

That’s it. Isn’t it super easy and fun to make? Be sure to check out our toilet paper roll crafts while you’re here! Your kids will love creating more cool crafts like this one!

More Spring Activities

Kindergarten Spring Ideas

Gather a bouquet of spring crafts and activity ideas perfect for the kindergarteners in your life! We have an array designed to spark their imaginations and promote learning in a fun way. These spring activities will have kids exploring nature’s marvels with each craft and educational activity they complete.

Keep reading below for some of our favorite ideas to implement this spring, and remember to bookmark your favorites so you always have an activity idea at the ready.

Spring Books For Kids

Too Many Carrots: This adorable book about a rabbit with way too many carrots will have your kids giggling! When he loads on too many that he can’t even go in his house, he’s on the hunt for somewhere to live. Read what happens as his friends try to help. This book is cute and has a great message of sharing!

Pete The Cat and the Cool Caterpillar: Pete’s new friend is a caterpillar! But when his best buddy goes missing, Pete has to find out what happened to him. He soon realizes he’s going to need a lot of patience to discover what exactly happened to his caterpillar!

I Don’t Want To Be A Frog: Little frog wants to be anything but, you guessed it, a frog. He tries his hand at being a cat, rabbit, pig, and owl, but he just can’t manage to be like them. All along the way, his dad encourages him to just be a frog, but it’s not until he has a surprise run-in with a wolf that he rethinks what it means to be a frog.

Spring Crafts For 6 Year Olds

Spring Bird Craft – Your little ones can spread their wings to explore nature as they create this adorable paper craft of a bird in a nest. Let their creativity soar as they bring this charming spring scene to life!

Butterfly Paper Cup Craft – Flutter into creativity with a burst of color! Invite your little artists to transform plain paper cups into magnificent butterflies using our free template. Let their imaginations take flight as they craft these beautiful symbols of springtime.

Chick Name Craft – Kids can create their own baby chick and use the shells they hatched out of to spell out their names. This engaging paper craft promises hours of fun while fostering fine motor development and letter recognition skills.

Paper Plate Ladybug Craft – Stop by your kitchen and grab a paper plate to make the cutest ladybug around. Your little artists will love to paint and craft their way into transforming a kitchen staple into a bright red insect.

Printable Spring Activities

Spring into fun and learning with our colorful spring I Spy printables! Included are six unique pages with easy and hard versions. Kids can practice counting from 1 to 5 on the easy versions and up to 10 on the hard versions. They’ll sharpen their observation and focus skills as they hunt and count each spring item.

Laminate the sheets to use them again and again for classroom activities or on-the-go entertainment. These printables are a fun and engaging way to enhance counting, memory, and focusing skills.

Buzz into learning fun with our busy bee activity sheets! These engaging printables feature a variety of tasks like shadow matching, maze navigation, counting, and graphing, all designed to enhance problem-solving, math, and fine motor skills.

They’re perfect to use in preschool, pre-K, and kindergarten, and these bee-themed activities will “bee” a hit with young learners at home or in the classroom. Keep the excitement buzzing with these educational and entertaining worksheets!

Take a leap on over to practice scissor skills with our frog cutting practice worksheets! These activities help children practice cutting precisely with scissors, while also enhancing hand-eye coordination, grip strength, and concentration which are vital for early development.

They’ll complete engaging tasks like matching, counting, and hone fine motor skills while exploring this fascinating amphibian. These free printables offer progressively harder challenges and provide hours of educational fun for curious minds.

For a little math fun this spring, be sure to check out these spring counting worksheets! They’re perfect for preschoolers or kindergarteners to practice early math concepts in a playful way.

This set of worksheets covers counting sets to ten and writing numbers, helping your children prepare for future math challenges. Let your little ones bloom as they count and write their way through the different images of spring with these free, educational printables!

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Spring Activities for Kids

Butterfly Template Printable