Butterfly
Elliot recently brought home this adorable craft from preschool. Butterflies made from painted coffee filters. His class used the ruffly basket type filters and cinched them with a pipe cleaner. Today we reinvented it with a box of small cone filters for a coffee maker we no longer have.
Cut them open and paint. We used watercolors because the colors bleed beautifully. I had fun playing with symmetry. Hang them in a window, or let them fly away as Mother's Day cards.
cute idea!
Posted by:erin | 10 May 2007 at 11:41 AM
Those look great. Who comes up with this stuff?
Posted by:Abby | 10 May 2007 at 12:05 PM
A fun idea!
Posted by:Mama Urchin | 10 May 2007 at 12:21 PM
My son did the same project in nursery school last year. I still have his creation pinned to my bulletin board. I love your interpretation and the fact that you got some use out of filters that may have ended up in the trash! So cute!
Posted by:sarah | 10 May 2007 at 02:33 PM
How fun! I miss the little years... Enjoy every day - they go by very quickly and then you end up with a grumpy teenager. (It's really not that bad - just different.)
Posted by:Anina | 10 May 2007 at 03:08 PM
you can also color the coffee filters with washable markers and then spray them with water and they bleed really nicely, just be sure to use the washable markers. My kids love to use the spray bottle!
Posted by:shannon | 10 May 2007 at 10:11 PM
My son came home with the same thing, but boy do I prefer the cone shaped ones. Really different and pretty!
Posted by:JoAnna | 11 May 2007 at 10:25 AM
If you buy clothespins-you can use them as the body, pipecleaners as antenae and then clip your butterfly places. Sometimes Walmart sells a bag of plastic ones that come in different colors.
Posted by:Jen | 12 May 2007 at 03:32 PM
I totally forgot about these butterflies that we used to make with coffee filters and clothes pins. Thanks for the reminder because I'm in need of preschool and school age crafts for the kids to do this summer. I have 7 kids once a week from 7 years to 2 years old, I'm not going to add the 4 month old into this mix he'll be napping hopefully, that will be doing a craft with me to keep us sane this summer I hope.
Posted by:Melissa | 23 May 2007 at 10:29 AM
We just made these today and it was a lot of fun! I blogged about it too. Thank you!
Posted by:Patricia | 06 July 2007 at 08:20 PM