Create this amazing butterfly sun catcher spoon puppet!

As you might have noticed, we’re big fans of spoon puppets, especially those big wooden spoons. The best thing about spoon puppets is that the crafting part is just as lovely as the imaginary play fun afterward. Especially this fantastic butterfly sun catcher spoon puppet craft can count on a lot of fun play.

Did you ever use confetti for crafting?

We decorated the butterfly wings with confetti. It’s a fun and easy way to decorate your crafts and make colorful sun catchers, like this butterfly sun catcher. What we like about confetti is its bright, easy use, and cheap craft supply. We love to make our crafts accessible to everyone. Whether you buy a package at the store, have the confetti left over from a party, or cut paper into small bits, you will enjoy making this confetti butterfly craft.

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Craft Supplies butterfly sun catcher

Big wooden spoon (ladle)
Paint, we used acrylic paint
plastic sheet or transparent contact paper
Cardstock, we used brown colored cardstock
Confetti or tissue paper for the wings
Pompoms
Colored beads
Thin craft wire, but you can also use pipe cleaners
Googly eyes
Black marker or sharpie
Scissor
Glue

Step-by-step craft instructions

Step 1: Start by painting your spoon pink (or your kid’s favorite color). We used acrylic paint to ensure the paint covered the wooden spoon nicely. We painted some stripes in different colors, but you can use washi tape instead of paint. It’s an easy way to get straight and even lines.

Step 2: Create the wings. We used a transparent plastic sheet for the wings as a base on which we glued the confetti. The transparent sheet is perfect because the light will peek through if you hold your butterfly against a window. I recommend sketching a wing on an A4/letter-size paper first to make sure you have the correct size. We first draw the left wing, cut it out, and used this as a template for our plastic sheet wings. Use the same template for both wings to be the same size and shape. You can also use sticky transparent contact paper for the wings, so you don’t need glue at all (great for younger kids).

Step 3: When you’re happy with the wings, decorate them with confetti. We used a regular glue stick for this.

Step 4: Now that your wings are fully decorated, make a border from cardstock around the wings. For this, you can use the same template you used before. Draw and cut out a frame from about ½ inch (1,5 cm) and glue this on top of your wings.

Step 5: Take your painted wooden spoon and give your butterfly two googly eyes. We used a piece of thin craft wire for the antennas, which we decorated with colorful beads and topped with two pom-poms on the top. If you don’t have an iron wire, use a pipe cleaner, small branches, or rope for the antennas.

Step 6: Take a glue gun and glue the wings and antennas against the back of the wooden spoon.

Craft tip

If you go to the Action store (Europe) or the Dollar store (USA and Canada), you can buy wooden spoons and confetti for less than a dollar. If you have any other questions about my favorite craft supplies and stores, check out the blog post favorites. And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for step-by-step craft instructions!

Did you enjoy crafting this butterfly sun catcher? Then you might also like this gorgeous butterfly craft with a nature twist! Or these pinecone butterflies; they´re very popular on the blog!