Children's Crafts

Butterfly Arts and Crafts

By editor ⋅ July 5, 2007 ⋅ Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Butterflies have long been the inspiration for art and crafts, exciting our senses with their ethereal grace and beauty.  Whether you wish to attract more butterflies into your own backyard, or would like to make your own butterflies from a variety of craft media, we have some great butterfly resources for you.

Enticing butterflies to visit is easy when you make your own sugar syrup Butterfly food and butterfly feeders from jam jars or sponges, or set out a platter of overripe fruit.

Butterfly gardening offers a more permanent food source through the choice of various easy-to-grow annual and perennial flowers - and has the added benefit of being beautiful to look at all summer long.

Kids might like to make their own pencil-topper butterflies from craft fun foam, dryer sheet butterflies, wallpaper butterflies or maybe even a ribbon butterfly note holder.

From other sites, you can choose a variety of butterfly clipart, both static and animated, to illustrate homemade greeting cards, note paper or other craft projects.  You can also read our article on using real butterflies as art without endangering any butterfly species.

Send a Monarch to Mexico is a symbolic migration of paper butterflies sent by children in Canada and the United States to children living near the Monarch sanctuaries in Mexico. 

The migration of the monarch butterfly is one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in the world. It is also considered an “endangered phenomena” because scientists fear this incredible journey may not last beyond the next decade. This celebration will symbolize an international partnership between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Joined by a fragile butterfly, shared hope will be carried across borders and between generations.

See the Journey North site for details on this year’s Symbolic Migration and how you can participate, including lesson plans, a sample butterfly art gallery and informative butterfly slideshows.