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Ant Hill
added 7-23-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Paper cup, paper plate, Plastic Ants, Brown paint, Green paint, Paint
brush, and Glue
Directions: Paint
the paper cup brown. Paint the paper plate green. Then glue the paper
cup to the paper plate. You can purchased ants form Oriental
Trading
company (144 for $2.00) The children then can glue the ants on
their ant hill.
Ant on a
Picnic added
7-23-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Red and black paint, white paper, paint brushes, a pencil, and a
black marker
Directions: Have
the children paint a checker board with the red paint on a piece of
paper. This will look like a picnic table cloth. Once it dries have
the children paint ants on it. They can use their fingers by place
3 finger prints in a row. Or for the children who don’t like to do
that, they can use the eraser on a pencil. Once that dries you can
use a black marker to add legs and antennas.
Magical
Butterflies added
7-23-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Green paint, an egg carton, brown bags, string, white paper, colored
markers, pipe cleaners, glue, and scissors
Directions: Have
each child make a caterpillar out of a egg carton. Cut the egg carton
in half. Use 5 cups for each child. Have them paint it green, or
brown if they chose. Then when they dry, let them stick pipe cleaner antenna
to it. Next put the caterpillar in to a brown bag (the chrysalis
similar to a cocoon). Now
tie it shut with a string. Hang them around the room. Tell the children in
a week they can open them and see if they changed to a caterpillar.
You can even mark it on the calendar for the day you do it. Then some
time during the week cut out butterfly wings from the white paper.
Have the children color them. But don’t tell them what they are.
Later after the children have left, open the bags up and glue the
wings on to the caterpillars. When the Children open there bags the
will be so surprised!
4 Stages of
Butterflies added
7-23-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, green construction paper, anti pasta, spiral pasta,
shell pasta, and bow tie pasta
Directions:
Cut along piece of blue or any color but green construction
paper in half. The fold the cut piece in half
again. (long wise) Placing the folded edge on top
cut the top piece to the fold into 4 equal parts.
On each flap at the top write 1 , 2 , 3 , or 4.
At the top under flap #1 write EGG
Under flap # 2 write CATERPILLAR
Under flap # 3 write CHRYSALIS
Under flap # 4 write BUTTERFLY
Open the paper and place a cut out green leaf
under each flap at the bottom of the page.
On leaf # 1 glue one piece of ANTI PASTA (EGG)
On leaf # 2 glue one piece of spiral or cork screw
pasta (Caterpillar)
On leaf # 3 glue one piece of shell pasta( chrysalis)
On leaf # 4 glue one piece of bow pasta ( butterfly)
Egg Carton
Ants added
7-31-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
egg carton, pipe cleaners and black paint
Directions:
You can make big ants. Cut 3 egg
sections (3 bumps), then have the children paint
them black. Use black pipe cleaners for the legs and antennas.
Bug Eyes
added 9-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Egg cartons, pipe cleaners, markers and/or paint, and scissors.
Directions: Cut the bottom
of the egg carton so there are 2 cups to each section. You can get 6
on a 1 dozen egg carton. Cut the bottoms out of
each section for eye holes. Let kids paint them or use markers
to decorate them. You
can let them glue feathers and sequins on them too. Use pipe cleaners
for antennas. Punch holes on the sides and
attach pipe cleaners, form pipe cleaners to fit around their ears.
Dragon Fly
added 9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Paper towel tube, yellow paper, and large googly eyes.
Directions: Use
a paper towel tube and have them decorate a piece of paper (yellow)
that fits around the tube. Then tape it around
the tube. Trace the children's hands (2) and tape one to either side
of the tube near the top. Add eyes- large (oval
shaped- flat on bottom), so that they are sticking up above top of
tube. It's really cute. Looks like it's clapping
it's hands - it's actually flapping it's wings......
Bug On A
Leaf added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, hole puncher, collage materials, and markers
Directions: Supply
each child with a construction paper leaf shape - give them a hole
puncher and let them at it! When they're
done punching holes, have them create the bugs on their leaf with
collage materials such as: pompoms, pipe
cleaners, yarn bits, etc. Or they can decorate with markers etc.
Bug Puppets
added 9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Paper lunch bags, Glue, Construction paper, and Crayons or markers
Directions: Using
construction paper, have the kids cut large circles for sections of
a bug and glue to a paper bag. Add face, legs, antennae,
whatever. You can also make a caterpillar puppet on tongue depressor
with pom poms glued on,
add wiggle eyes or buttons, and antennae.
Ladybug
Rocks added
9-9-98 Original Author
Unknown
Need:
Small rocks, paint, pipe cleaners, sheet protectors, beads, and
magnetic strip.
Directions:
Paint small rocks to look like ladybugs or other bugs. Use pipe
cleaners for legs on spiders, overhead transparencies or sheet
protectors for wings, tiny beads
for big bug-eyes. Put a small piece of magnetic
strip on the back if desired.
Ladybug
Hand Puppets added
9-9-98 Original Author
Unknown
Need:
Felt, scissors, glue, buttons, googly eyes, and pipe cleaner.
Directions:
Cut two pieces of felt into oval shapes that are flat on one end (Needs
to fit on your hand!) Then cut two wings to
glue onto felt body. Glue on buttons
for spots and wiggle eyes, pipe cleaner
antennae. I always let kids choose felt colors to make ladybugs - we've
had some interesting combos!
Paper Plate
Ladybug added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Paper plates,
black construction paper, black and red paint, brads, and a hole punch
Directions:
Paint a paper plate red, then while they dry, cut out black wings
(a circle then cut it in half). Punch holes in connecting
corners of the wings. Now paint or color some black spots on the
ladybugs. Then use brads to fasten the wings onto the lady bug (the
brads allow the wings to move). Don't forget to give her a face.
Ladybug
Finger Puppet added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Red milk jug lids, wiggle eyes, pom poms, playdough, and a black marker
Directions: To
make a ladybug finger puppet for each child, collect a supply of red
jug lids. Hot glue a black pom-pom to each jug
lid forming the head. Then glue two wiggle eyes to pom-pom. Using a
permanent black marker, embellish the ladybugs back
with dots. Insert a ball of clay or playdough
into the lid. To use the puppet, a child must press a finger into
the dough.
Potato
Print Ladybugs added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Potato, red paint, and a black marker
Directions: Using
a potato cut in half, print red circles onto paper. When dry add
dots, eyes, legs with a black marker.
Lady the
Bug added 9-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Corrugated cardboard, pipe cleaners, dot stickers, and wiggly
eyes
Directions: Make lady bugs from corrugated
cardboard. Cut an oval shape from the cardboard. Insert three 6"
pipe cleaners for legs through tunnels in the cardboard.
Bend legs appropriately and add stickers for
spots. Color in eyes or add wiggly eyes.
Ladybug
Bowl added 9-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Paper bowls, stick back paper circles, and construction paper
Directions:
Paint the bottom of a paper bowl
red. Stick black paper circles on it (for the spots). Add paper
legs and head. Pipe cleaners can also be used for
the legs.
Ant Puppet
added 9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Paper bags, scissors, construction paper, and glue.
Directions: Using construction paper, have
the kids cut large circles for sections of a ant and glue to a paper
bag, add face, antennae, whatever.
Giant Ants!!
added 9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Styrofoam balls and eggs, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, toothpicks, and
black or red paint
Directions: Use
toothpicks to connect 2 styrofoam balls and 1 styrofoam egg
(for the 3 body parts of the ant.) Insert 6 pipe cleaners into
the styrofoam for the legs. Ben the pipe cleaners so that it looks
like the ant is walking. Paint the styrofoam red or
black. When dry, glue on googly eyes and there's your
giant ant! You could also make giant ant hills by cutting brown
construction paper and rolling it into a cone
shape. Children can use crumpled pieces of tissue paper
to glue on the "sand/dirt."
They can build from bottom/up. They could also glue on real sand.
Ant On A
Leaf added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, hole puncher, collage materials, and markers.
Directions: Supply each child with a
construction paper leaf shape - give them a hole puncher & let them
at it! When they're done punching, have them create the ants on their
leaf with collage materials such as: pompoms, pipe cleaners, yarn
bits, etc. -
or they can decorate with markers etc.
Ant Farm
added 9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, glue, ziplock bag, sand, and green and black paint
Directions: Have children paint one side of a
piece of construction paper or small poster board with glue/water
solution (the paper should be sized to lay flat in a large zip lock). Children
may leave a dry area on one portion of the page
to be the area of grassy ground above the ant farm. Then have each
child cover the paper with sand
(shake off excess). Let children make tunnels by scraping off a
few lines of sand. After the page dries, make ants in the
sand/tunnels with finger or thumbprint. (draw
legs) Paint or draw the grass above the Ant Farm. Place the entire
page in a large zip lock and seal it to it
will become a keep-sake. You could use green Easter grass for the
grass. They could even glue little plastic
ants.
Honeycomb
Hive added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Honeycomb cereal, bee stamp, or black and yellow construction paper
Directions:
Honeycomb cereal makes a great
hive. Glue a grouping of the cereal pieces next to each other on
a sheet of paper. Add the active bees by stamping
them around the hive with an ink stamp shaped like
a bee or create bees with tiny scraps
of black and yellow paper glued together.
Oil Bee
added 9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Newsprint paper, crayons, and cooking oil
Directions:
Color a large bee body on newsprint or printer paper. Be cure to
color by using heavy strokes and fill in all the
spaces. Outline the wings with a dark crayon and then paint in the
open space with cooking oil. Press the
excess oil off the paper by rubbing it between newspaper. Hold the
bee up to the window. The wings are now
see-through.
Finger
Paint Bee added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Finger paint, paper, and hand lotion
Directions:
Finger paint to Rimsky-Korsakov's
"Flight of the Bumble Bee." Mix tempera paint 1-1 with hand
lotion. This makes a great finger painting medium. Be
sure to use thick glossy paper to paint on. If you
don't have good paper, be brave and paint on the table top. Put the
music on and begin to paint to the music!
Wax Paper
Wings added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Tag board, wax paper, crayons or markers, and a toothpick
Directions:
Cut and color a bee body out of heavy tag board paper. Add wings by
using four pieces of wax paper shaped to
fit the bee. Attach a stinger on the rear with a toothpick. What a
creature!
Honeybees
added 9-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Inked stamp pad, fine marker, white paper.
Directions: Press your index finger on an
inked stamp pad. Then press on a sheet of white
paper. Make several fingerprints across the paper. With a
fine felt-tipped marker, add wings, antennae and legs to your
creations. Other bugs can also
be made with fingerprints.
Music
added 9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
White paper, bumble bee sticker, and a crayon
Directions:
I gave each child a 9x12 piece of
white paper with a small bumble bee sticker in the corner. I gave each
child had a black crayon. I then played the
recording of "The Flight of the Bumblebee and the children
had to imagine that their crayon was the bee flying on the paper and
draw its path.
Simple
Butterflies added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Paper and crayons
Directions:
Fold a piece of paper and have
the children cut out a butterfly shape. Provide
crayons and markers for children to use to decorate their butterfly
wings. Children can also use glitter to make
their butterflies sparkle. Glue or tape two bent pipe cleaners to the
back of the butterfly to make antennae.
Inkblot
Butterfly added 9-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Paper and paint
Directions:
Cut out a butterfly shape fold it
in the center, have the children paint on
side. Fold and rub lightly, then unfold. The sides will be identical.
Caterpillar
Project added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Clothes pin, tissue paper, pipe cleaner, toilet paper roll, brown yarn
Directions:
I have the kids make butterflies
out of clothespins and tissue paper. Add pipe cleaner antennas.
Give them each a toilet paper empty roll and have
them wrap brown yarn around it several times. Tuck
the butterfly into the tp roll - Wah la - A chrysalis (similar to a
cocoon) with a butterfly
inside.
Pom
Pom Caterpillars added
9-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Middle size pom poms and wiggly eyes
Directions: Glue
three middle size pom poms together. Paste on eyes and feelers. For
fun you can put magnetic tape on back for
magnet.
Sticky
Butterfly added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, contact paper, and tissue paper
Directions:
Fold a piece of construction
paper in half from top to bottom and cut out the shape of a butterfly.
Cut out the center of the wings on both sides to make frames.
Cut clear contact paper (or wax paper with
glue) to cover the hole in each wing. Now you have sticky space for a
wing. Give the children colored tissue
paper to put on the sticky part.
Butterfly
Dance added
9-9-98 Original Author
Unknown
Need:
Scrap pieces of fabric, elastic, and hot glue.
Directions:
Before you begin, create your butterfly wings by cutting the fabric
into 12 X 18 pieces. Hot glue two 6"
to 8" (depending on the size of your children's arms) pieces of
elastic to each end of the 12" side of
fabric. Let dry Select a piece of music for your children to dance
to. Put wings on all the children's arms.
Have them begin on the floor, curled up in a ball. Tell them they are
each in a chrysalis. As the music begins
they can come out of their cocoons and begin to dance to the music.
Try a variety of music and watch the different butterfly dances.
Baggie
Butterflies added
9-9-98 Original Author
Unknown
Need:
Snack size ziplock bags, tissue paper, colored celephane, chenille stem
Directions: Fill the snack size ziplock bags
with scraps of tissue paper and cellophane and then gather them in
the middle with a half of a chenille stem. Twist
and bend the stem into antennae.
Cupcake
Liner Butterflies added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Cupcake liners, markers, and pipe cleaner
Directions:
Flatten out cupcake liners and
color with markers or crayons many different colors. Pinch liners
in the center and wrap with pipe cleaners using
the left over to make antennae.
Crayon
Butterfly Sun Catcher added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Vegetable peeler, crayons, wax paper, iron (adult only)
Directions:
Using vegetable peeler shave
crayons into small thin pieces. Place a sheet of wax paper onto
newspaper and sprinkle with crayon bits. Place
another sheet of wax paper on top and press with a
warm iron for a few seconds. Cut into butterfly shape and hang in a window.
Coffee
Filter Butterfly added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Cone
shaped coffee filter, watercolor paint, clothespins, black paint, and pipe
cleaners
Directions:
Take a cone shaped coffee filter
and cut it apart. Have the children watercolor each side. Paint a
clothespin black and then attach the two wings with
it. Then add a pipe cleaner tied around the clothespin for
the antennae.
Stained
Glass Butterflies added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, glue, and tissue paper
Directions:
Precut a butterfly shape out of construction paper. After cutting out
the shape, cut out holes in various spots in the
butterfly shape. The children can glue
squares of colored tissue paper over the holes.
Glue sticks work well for this...have children glue around hole
and place tissue on top of glue. Trim around edge
of butterfly if any tissue paper is overhanging.
Tissue
Paper Butterflies added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
White paper, Tissue paper, water, and paintbrush
Directions:
Cut butterfly shapes from white
construction paper. Set out assorted colors of 1-inch tissue paper
squares, small containers of water and paintbrushes.
Have the children paint the butterfly shapes with
water and place the tissue paper squares randomly on the shapes.
Have them count to ten, then remove the wet
tissue paper to view their colorful creations.
Tye Dye
Butterfly added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Muffin tin, food coloring, eye droppers, coffee filter, clothes pin,
wiggly eyes, pipe cleaners
Directions: Fill
muffin tins with water and food coloring. Let the children use the
eye dropper to pick up the colored water. (
great for small motor skills ) Have children
release the eyedropper on the filter. Blot...let
dry...and then gather all of the filter up into a regular clothes pin.
Make eyes and pipe cleaner antennas and there
you go...you have your butterfly.
Cocoons
added 9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Cotton batting and a craft stick
Directions:
Let children wrap cotton batting around a craft stick
to simulate a cocoon.
Dot
Butterflies added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, Paint, Q-tips
Directions:
Cut out a large white butterfly. Glue a black strip of paper in the
center on butterfly. Let children use a
Q-tip to dip in paint and "dot" the butterfly wings with
color.
Feet
Butterflies added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, Paint, Glue, Markers or crayons
Directions:
Have children take off shoes, dip feet into shallow pan of pastel
paint. Step onto a piece of paper so feet
are going outward from the heels together. When dry, add antennae
with markers.
Another
Foot Butterfly Idea added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper and crayons
Directions:
Have the children take their
shoes off. On a paper put their feet and trace them, leaving space
between both feet for the butterfly body, the children can put
their pointer and trace it both ways, Add two antennas and a face
color. Also they can trace their shoes and leave a space between. It
makes a different kind of butterfly.
Wallpaper
Butterfly added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, wrapping paper or wallpaper scraps, popsicle sticks or
straws, crayons, scissors, and stapler or tape
Directions:
Fold paper in half. Cut out butterfly wings; add about an extra inch
where the body would be (on the fold). Be
sure you don't cut the fold. Color as desired and glue a Popsicle
stick where the body would be.
Caterpillar
String Puppets added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Egg Carton, Yarn, Glue, and Scissor
Directions:
Cut out all of the egg cups. Poke a hole in the bottoms. String the
cups on yarn to make a caterpillar. Cut
another piece of yarn tie one end to the front and the other near the
eighth egg cup. Make caterpillar crawl by
holding the loop of yarn and moving it up and down.
Paper Chain
Butterflies added
9-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, and glue
Directions:
Give each child strips of
construction paper and glue. Form a circle with the paper. Then glue
the circles together. Add antennae and eyes.
Caterpillar/butterfly
added 2-25-99 Original
Author Unknown
Submitted by: Patches
Johnston
Need: Construction paper and paint
Directions:
Fold a piece of construction paper in half. Draw a caterpillar on it
putting it on the fold. Back of it will go on the fold. Open it up
and let the kids put paint splats on the inside, then close and smash
together. Open it and you have a butterfly, closed it's a
caterpillar. Using a hole punch put a hole at the top and you can hang
your butterfly up.
Curly
Caterpillars added
3-2-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Construction paper
and glue
Directions: Have
the children glue colored paper strips (approx. 1 1/2 X 8 inch) into
rings. Glue six or seven rings together to
form a long caterpillar. The children can draw
faces and use pipe cleaners as antennae.
Firefly added
8-18-00 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Wooden ice cream spoons, glow in the
dark paint, black paper, tissue paper (or Wax paper.)
Directions: Use
the little wooden spoons that come with ice cream cups for the body of
your firefly. You may be able to get these from your local school
cafeteria. Paint the spoon with the glow in the dark neon paint.
One 2 oz. bottle should be plenty for your whole class. Let dry and
glue 2 black dots on one end of the spoon for eyes. Cut tissue paper
or wax paper into ovals and let kids glue an oval on each side for wings.
Turn out the lights and see them glow while you sing your favorite firefly
song or perform a finger play.
Butterfly
Prints added
2-27-01 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Paper, finger-paints
Directions: Put
out a variety of finger paint colors. Give each student a piece of finger
paint paper. Instruct students to mix several colors of finger paint onto
the paper. Then give each student a precut butterfly shape and press it
onto the finger-paint paper. When it is removed, the result: a beautifully
colorful butterfly.
Bug Guest
House added
4-20-01 Original
Author Unknown
Need: 1
qt milk carton, old pantyhose and rubber band, Heavy scissors or craft
knife, Old Magazines and glue
Directions: A bug
guest house is a perfect way to observe insects without harming them. Keep
them only long enough to observe, and then return them to their home
where they were found. Be sure to put whatever plant material your bug
needs as food. Sprinkle a few drops of water on the leaves too. To make
the house, cut 2 window openings on the sides of the carton. Look thru
magazines for colorful pictures. Trim and glue them to cover the milk
carton, making a nature picture collage. When the glue is dry, cut a leg
off the pantyhose, and pull it up over the box, having the toe at the base
of the carton. Add your bug, plants and water, then pull the hose up
tightly, and trim, leaving about 3" to tie in a knot, or fasten w/
the rubber band. Watch your bug for a few hours or overnight, then set it
free. Save bug house for another guest.
Antennae
Headband added
4-29-01 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Construction Paper, Crayons,
Markers, or Paint, 2 Pipe cleaners, 2 Pom-poms, Glue, Stapler or Tape
Directions:
Using the construction paper,
cut out a strip of paper about 2 inches thick and long enough to wrap
around your fore head (make sure you make it an inch or two longer so you
can staple the ends together.) Use crayons, markers, and/or paint to make
your headband colorful. Glue the pom-poms to one end of each pipe cleaner.
Put the other end of each pipe cleaner up against the center of the strip
of paper, about 4-6 inches apart. Staple or tape them in place. Once the antennae
are attached, staple or tape the ends of the strip together to snuggly fit
around your fore head.
A few other options: Before attaching the
pipe cleaner to the headband, wrap them tightly around a pen or pencil to
give them a fun, spiral shape. You can also decorate the headband itself
with the pom-poms!
Peanut
Butterflies added
5-25-01 Submitted
by: Jennifer
Folsom
Need: Butterfly pattern, crayons or
markers, glue, and a peanut (Watch for allergies).
Directions:
Color butterflies and glue a peanut on
for the body of the butterfly. Looks cute!
Ladybug
Windsock added
3-17-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Red and black paper, red and black
crepe paper, glue, scissors, stickers or bingo blotters, black marker
Directions:
Cut
a large oval from red paper to represent ladybug wings. Draw a solid
black line down the center. Add spots with black circle stickers,
paper or bingo dotter, etc. Cut a half circle from black paper for
the ladybug head. Glue to the oval. Add large bug eyes and hang
strips of red & black crepe paper from the bottom of the oval.
Handprint
Window Butterflies added
3-31-02
Submitted By: Mellissa Oppedisano
Need: Paint, soap, paintbrush, window, hands
Directions: Set aside lots of different color
paints in paint cups (if the paint is thin or runny, add flour to
thicken!) Add about a teaspoon of dishwashing soap to each paint cup (this
makes for easier clean up!) Have the children paint their hands whatever
colors they want, or a teacher can paint each child's hand (depending on
your preference!). After both hands are finished, have the children press
both hands on the window, overlapping the thumbs! The print comes out to
look like a butterfly and it looks wonderful it windows. An extended
option is to let the children paint antennas and eyes on their
butterflies!
Colorful
Caterpillars
added 6-22-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need: 1 sheet white construction paper
per child, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple construction, paper,
glue, markers
Directions:
Using the circle pattern provided, make 1 circle of each color per child.
Children will then glue the different color of circles together to form a
caterpillar. Next they will use markers to draw on features.
Bug Catcher
added 3-16-03 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Oatmeal Container, Glue or tape,
Screen or netting material, Yarn
Directions:
Use oatmeal container with lid. Cut large "window" in side and
glue or tape screen or netting to inside over hole. Punch two holes in
sides to add yarn handle.
Flying
Butterfly added
4-28-03 Original
Author Unknown
Need: paper, stapler, scissors, straw
Directions:
Fold a sheet of construction paper
in half. Cut out a butterfly shape on the fold. Staple the
butterfly along the fold, in about 1/4 inch, then staple a plastic
drinking straw to it. Unfold the butterfly. Let your child
hold the butterfly puppet and gently "fly" it up and down to
make the wings flap.
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