Are you looking for a fun and easy activity for the kids do this spring or summer? If so, this butterfly craft is the perfect answer for you!
This handprint butterfly craft for kids makes a fun activity for spring, summer or anytime your kids are learning about insects!
As you may know, around here we love handprint crafts for kids.
Using your child’s handprint turns a regular craft into a cherished possession for years to come. No mom wants to forget how little their child’s hands once were!
Learn how to make this easy butterfly handprint craft with your kids.
Butterfly Handprint Craft Idea
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Supplies
- Colored cardstock (in your choice of colors)
- Googly eyes
- Black marker
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Pencil
- 1.5″ circle punch (optional)
- .5″ circle punch (optional)
- .25″ circle punch (optional)
How To Make A Handprint Butterfly
Trace your child’s hand onto 2 different colors of paper. Repeat again to end up with 4 handprints. 
Use the 1.5″ circle punch or your scissors to cut out a circle from the green card stock. This will be your butterfly’s head.
Use your scissors to cut out a stretched out oval shape for the butterfly’s body. Make sure it’s long enough to extend to the bottom of the child’s handprints.
Cut out two small ovals from the green card stock that will become the butterfly’s antennae.
Position one colored handprint with the thumb facing up, the fingers to the side and rotated out slightly. Take the other colored handprint and position the hand the same way, except this time rotate the hand down.
Glue the hands together where they overlap. Repeat with the opposite side. These are the butterfly’s wings. 
Take both sets of handprint wings with the bottoms of the hands facing in, slightly overlap them and glue them together.
Assemble the butterfly body by gluing the antennae to the back of the circle head. Glue the completed head to the top of the green body.
Place the completed body in the middle of the handprint wings and glue into place. 
Glue the googly eyes to the head and use the marker to draw a smile beneath the eyes. 
If you want to add more detail to the butterfly, use the smaller circle punches (or scissors) to cut out circles. Glue these circles to the wings. 
That’s all there is to it to make this cute handprint butterfly!
Ways To Use This Handprint Craft
We love the versatility of handprint crafts!
For this butterfly craft, we have a few suggestions of how to use it with your kids or students.
First, we think this would make an awesome activity for spring.
With all the new life and fresh start of the spring season, insect activities work great.
For home use, we’d probably read a book about butterflies, and then discuss what we learned. Afterwards we would make this fun and simple craft.
If you’re a teacher, this craft would make a great art project to wrap up your insect unit studies.
This handprint butterfly craft is also perfect for Mother’s Day!
Make it in Mom or Grandma’s favorite colors and surprise her with a homemade gift. We’d also throw a silly pun in there like, “Mom you give me wings to fly”.
Adapting This Craft For Groups Of Kids
Depending on the skill level of the children doing this craft, we have a few suggestions to make this handprint craft easier.
If you’re using this idea for preschool or kindergarten children, we would suggest having all the pieces cut ahead of time.
Ideally you would have the antennae, heads, and bodies already cut. That way when the kids are ready to go all they need to focus on is cutting out their own handprints and gluing everything together.
We’d also suggest swapping out the small circle punches for markers. There will be less pieces to prepare if you let the kids draw their own designs on the wings instead of gluing on the circles.
If you want to make it even more customized, you could let kids use glitter glue to add sparkly accents to their butterflies!
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We can’t wait to see what you do!
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Handprint Butterfly Craft For Kids
Learn how to make this easy handprint butterfly craft for kids! Perfect for spring, summer or Mother's Day!
Materials
Tools
- Black marker
- Scissors
- Pencil
- 1.5" circle punch (optional)
- .5" circle punch (optional)
- .25" circle punch (optional)
Instructions
- Trace your child's hand onto 2 different colors of paper. Repeat again to end up with 4 handprints.
- Use the 1.5" circle punch or your scissors to cut out a circle from the green card stock. This will be your butterfly's head.
- Use your scissors to cut out a stretched out oval shape for the butterfly's body. Make sure it's long enough to extend to the bottom of the child's handprints.
- Cut out two small ovals from the green card stock that will become the butterfly's antennae.
- Position one colored handprint with the thumb facing up, the fingers to the side and rotated out slightly. Take the other colored handprint and position the hand the same way, except this time rotate the hand down. Glue the hands together where they overlap. Repeat with the opposite side. These are the butterfly's wings.
- Take both sets of handprint wings with the bottoms of the hands facing in, slightly overlap them and glue them together.
- Assemble the butterfly body by gluing the antennae to the back of the circle head. Glue the completed head to the top of the green body.
- Place the completed body in the middle of the handprint wings and glue into place.
- Glue the googly eyes to the head and use the marker to draw a smile beneath the eyes.
- If you want to add more detail to the butterfly, use the smaller circle punches (or scissors) to cut out circles. Glue these circles to the wings.
