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.