Nikhil & Jay: Make your own butterfly
Have fun creating and decorating your own butterfly and remember, the more colourful the better!
- Cardboard tube
- Paint
- Glue
- Coloured paper
- Pen
- Scissors (grown-up use only)
- Coloured pens or pencils
- Pipe cleaner
- Sticky tape
Step by step guide:
Paint a cardboard tube in a colour of your choice.聽
You could add some eyes by cutting out two circles on a piece of white paper and colouring in black circles and then stick them onto the cardboard tube - this will bring the butterfly alive!
Fold a piece of coloured paper in half and draw two semi circles - one bigger than the other.
Ask a grown-up to cut around the two semi circles.
Once you've got the shape of the wings, you can decorate them with coloured pens or pencils, or any other craft supplies that you have at home!
Put some glue along the middle of the butterfly and press the cardboard down to make it stick together.
Lastly, fold a pipe cleaner in half and curl the ends into the shape you'd like your antennae to be, and use a sticky tape to secure it onto the back of the cardboard tube.聽
And there you have it, your own butterfly!