Thursday, January 12, 2012

Construction Paper Butterfly: One Person Craft


Construction Paper Butterfly

Sometime back I had blogged about CJ's emerging creativity and her one person crafts. She made the above butterfly with out my guidance or should I say my hindrance:-)

I think she got the inspiration for the craft from scissor cutting practices. Generally I give her a paper and we cut the corners to create patterns.

Materials Used:

Construction paper
Pipe cleaners
Paint
Child Safe Scissor

Steps Overview:

Butterfly 1:



Take a Construction paper


Fold in half along the horizontal direction as shown below



Cut a U shape in one corner



Cut as shown in all the other corners



Unfold and you have a butterfly shape


Add details and a pipe cleaner antennae. Butterfly ready!



Butterfly 2:

Kirigami Butterfly

Fold in half along the horizontal direction as shown below



Fold in half along the vertical direction as shown below



Cut a U shape at the corner opposite to the folded edge as shown



Cut the other two corners leaving the folded edge as shown



Unfold and u have a different butterfly shape


Add details and pipe cleaner antennae. Butterfly ready!

2 comments:

  1. very cute! I like that it's also great scissor practice - will have to remember this for our spring theme.

    Thanks for sharing on the Sunday Showcase - hope to see you this week.

    Bern

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  2. Ester, this is a fun little project. Simple enough I think my daughter would be able to make these. Don't you love all the things you can do with pipe cleaners?

    -Veronica

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