How to make colorful pinecone butterflies
Looking for a fun and creative nature craft? These colorful pinecone butterflies are the perfect project! With their gorgeous wings, butterflies are always a joy to design, you can keep them simple or go all out with color and decorations.
For this craft, we’ve combined two favorites: butterflies and pinecones. It’s an easy, nature-inspired activity that kids will love, and it also makes for adorable room décor. So grab some pinecones from outside and let’s get crafting!
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Craft supplies pinecone butterflies
- Cardboard or cardstock, we love to use the brown color
- Pinecones
- Acorn tops
- Googly eyes
- (Paint)markers or pencils, we used our Posca paint markers
- Scissor
- Glue, preferably hot glue
Step-by-step pinecone butterflies craft activity
Step-by-Step Pinecone Butterfly Instructions
Step 1: Create the Wings
- Fold your paper in half (we used brown paper because it pairs beautifully with bright paint markers).
- On the folded edge, draw half of a butterfly shape.
- Cut it out so that when unfolded, you’ll have a full set of wings.
- Adjust the size of the wings to match your pinecones. Repeat for however many butterflies you want to make.
Step 2: Decorate the Wings
- This is where creativity shines! We decorated our wings with Posca paint markers, but you can also use paint, crayons, colored paper, stickers, sequins, glitter or even confetti.
- The more colorful, the better!
Step 3: Make the Butterfly Face
- Use acorn sticks for the butterflies’ feelers/antennae.
- Glue googly eyes onto the tops of the acorns. This gives your butterfly personality, see the picture.
- Match each pinecone with an acorn top so your butterfly has a head and antennas.
Step 4: Put It All Together
- Use glue (hot glue works best) to attach the pinecone body to the paper wings.
- Glue the acorn head with googly eyes on top. You can add glue on the backside of your pinecone.
- Let everything dry before displaying your butterfly puppet.
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