Tissue Paper & Paper Plate Butterfly

Happy “HUMP” day, my friends!!! {I couldn’t resist!} I’m so glad you landed on today’s Paper Plate Butterfly tutorial!

By chance… is the weather beautiful where you are?

We finally pulled out the hoses for the front/back yards and started watering the grass & flowers this past weekend. And amazingly – we haven’t had the heater on for a week now. I’m really loving it!

It’s a really nice change here in Wyoming and I’m excited about the upcoming beautiful weather. Although most days I feel like we are wasting our time sitting on the couch when the sun is shining bright. I guess we better start knocking things off some of our Spring Bucket list items!

To celebrate this recent beautiful spring weather – Lil Man & I made this Paper Plate and Tissue Paper Butterfly together. It’s just a paper plate, school glue and random pieces of colorful tissue paper we had on hand. That’s it!

Pretty easy, right? And of course – it’s kid friendly for all ages AND you can customize the colors of the tissue paper to reflect the style of butterfly you want.

If you would like to recreate it with your child today, find all the details below! Then come share pictures of the completed tissue paper covered butterflies on our Facebook page to see! Happy crafting, my friends! #gluedtomycrafts

Paper Plate Butterfly Craft Supplies:
* Colorful Tissue Paper {2-3 colors!}
* Glitter Cardstock
* Large Paper Plate {one per butterfly craft}
* School Glue
* Pipe Cleaner
* Kid Friendly Paper Scissors
* Hand-Held Stapler

Directions:
* First cut your paper plate in half.
* Stapler the two halves together, facing the opposite direction now, to look like a butterfly.
* Fold a pipe cleaner in half and stapler to the paper plate. This is the antennas of the butterfly.
* Cut your tissue paper into small squares.
* Put a good layer of glue all over the paper pieces.
* Have your child stick the tissue paper on the glue, until the butterfly is completely covered.
* Grab your gold cardstock and cut out a center piece for the body of the butterfly.
* Staple it to the paper plate piece.
* Let your paper plate butterfly project dry completely before displaying proudly for all to see!