Cardboard Tube Butterfly Craft

A Cardboard tube butterfly craft is an old standby when it come to recycling toilet paper rolls or hand towel rolls. It is an inexpensive and easy craft for younger children to enjoy while recycling materials that otherwise head straight for the garbage pile. This craft can easily be used as a group project or just a single child and a cardboard tube butterfly craft is a great way to remember a trip to a nature preserve.

Trivia:

Both male and female butterflies will step on its food, using organs that sense dissolved sugars to taste food sources like fermenting fruit. Source: ThoughtCo -10 Fascinating Facts About Butterflies.

Supplies

Small Cardboard Tube
Craft Paint
Paintbrush
Black Marker
Colored Construction Paper’
Scissors
Newspaper
Glue Stick

Instructions

Spread newspaper to protect your work surface.
Paint the cardboard tube, let dry
Select one of the patterns below and print on colored construction paper and cut out. You can print on two different color papers and cut out the decorations on one.
Using the picture as a reference draw a face on the cardboard tube
Using the glue stick, rub a line of glue down the middle of the wings and attach the cardboard to it with the face pointing out.
Glue antenna inside the tube

Patterns, Templates and Printables

Click on a pattern to open it in a new window to print

Award your kids with an inexpensive and colorful Butterfly Patch from MakingFriends.com. They can wear them, collect them or trade them.