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Butterfly Mobile Craft

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Make a colorful butterfly mobile from construction paper, thread, and twigs! This carefully balanced sculpture moves with every breeze.

Estimated Time: 60 minutes
Supplies Needed:
  • Construction paper
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Hole punch
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Thread
  • Large upholstery needle
  • 3 twigs (about 1 ft long each)
  • Markers or crayons
  • Optional – Glitter glue or glitter

Instructions

1.

Fold a piece of construction paper in half and cut along the fold. (This will make 2 butterflies. You’ll need to make 4 or more butterflies for your mobile.)

Cutting the paper in half.Cut paper
2.

Fold one of these pieces of paper in half. Then draw half of a butterfly along the fold line.

Folded paperPaper butterfly
3.

Fold a small piece of black or brown paper in half. Draw the body and head of a butterfly on it – make it the same length as your butterfly. Then cut them out.

Tracing of a butterfly's body.Two cut out butterfly paper bodies.
4.

Glue a wing on each side of your butterfly.

Gluing the wings on.
5.

Using a hole punch, make two holes in the butterfly’s head. Cut a pipe cleaner in half. Then thread it through the holes in the butterfly’s head as antennae.

Hole punch the paper butterfly.The butterfly with antennae.
6.

Decorate both sides of your butterfly using crayons, markers, glitter, or glitter glue.

Decorated paper butterfly.
7.

Using a needle, pull a short length of knotted thread through the balancing point of the butterfly (near its middle).

Tie the other end of the thread to the end of a twig.

Attaching the paper butterfly to a twig.
8.

On the other end of the twig, attach another butterfly in the same way.

Attach a second paper butterfly.
9.

Tie a thread to the middle of this twig and attach it to the end of another twig.

Attach the twig to another twig.
10.

Attach a butterfly to the other end of this twig.

Three butterflies on twigs.
11.

Using a short length of thread, attach what you’ve made to the end of another twig. If you want the twigs to remain horizontal, tie the thread where the mobile will balance (but this is not necessary).

Three butterflies on twigs.
12.

Attach a butterfly to the other end of this twig.

Four butterflies on twigs.
13.

Tie a longer length of thread to the top twig. If you want the twigs to remain horizontal, tie the thread where the mobile will balance (but this is not necessary).

You now have a beautiful butterfly mobile to hang and display!

The finished butterfly paper mobile.
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