When the kids are out of school I am always looking for fun little craft projects to do with them. The other day, they were all fighting and getting on my nerves, there needed to be an intervention. Fast. Out comes the craft box! I found this cute little butterfly craft in Family Fun magazine. If you have children you need to get this magazine. Every month when my Family Fun comes to my door, I cannot wait to read it because I always find something fun to do or make with my children. Not only that, I always find fun toys and games for my kids that I would not otherwise. I found this fun game in that magazine and it is making summertime sight word homework just a little more fun.
This project was easy and I had everything that I needed in my craft closet. You can actually get two activities out of this one, because you can make the snack that goes in the bags too. I just tossed together some Kix, freeze dried bananas, and raisins. We took a few clothespins and decorated the outside with puffy paint. We put some googly eyes on the butterfly before the paint was dry and then we let them dry completely. We just cut a pipe cleaner and made it look like an antennae and we were done. This would be a fun craft at a bug themed party also. You could use a heat embosser to make the paint dry faster and it could also double as the favor bag.
As you can see, Ava really gets into her art projects. I really love doing projects on these cheap little trays that I bought at the dollar store. It helps contain some of the mess. I originally bought them for Playdoh but we use them for all sorts of things now.
What kinds of projects are you doing with your kids this summer? If you have some good ideas or blog posts, please share them with the class in the comments section.
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Such a great idea!!!
Omg those could not be cuter!! Supes TC!
This is such a great idea! I’m always looking for something fun to do with my kids.
Here’s one of my favorite summer activities with kids:
https://be-it-ever-so-humble.blogspot.com/2009/07/bubble-blowing-bottle_27.html
thank you for sharing that link! That is such a great idea. We may be doing that this afternoon.
those are TOO cute. absolutely adorable. i know what we’re doing tomorrow!
I hope that you had fun making the Butterfly Snack! If you take pictures, I would love to see.
I also LOVE Family Fun magazine (AND your blog). Made the pork chops on the grill brownies for Father’s Day dessert! Made your daisy “mud” cups for the snack when my Girl Scout troop graduated from Daisies to Brownies in May. Everyone LOVED them! Thanks for the posts!
my pleasure… I love Family Fun. I get so many great ideas from that magazine.
This is adorable. 🙂
Love it! I posted a link on my column (ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com). Thanks for sharing!
Glad that you liked it!
How do you get the pipe cleaners to stay? Are they glued on? Cute idea for a spring time class project!
They are just clipped in with the clothespin, but I am sure that you could hot glue them.
I love this idea for Easter. This is a cool craft for kid’s church.
thank you Corrina, it will be perfect for an Easter craft.
I remember seeing this when you first posted about it and thought it was such a great idea. My daughter is turning 4 in two weeks and we’re doing a butterfly theme – these will be the perfect goodie bags! Thanks!
that sounds like a great party favor.
So Adorable!!
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Will do!
Hi, there –
I am planning a Very Hungry Caterpillar birthday party for my daughter who is about to turn one. These will be perfect! My only problem is I’m having trouble finding the small baggies? I am able to find the regular sandwich-size Ziplock bags, but not these smaller ones. Where did you find yours?
Thanks!
Lisa
What a cute theme for a party! I got them at Target. I buy them all the time, they are the snack size.
Okay, thanks so much! I will try Target. Hopefully I can pull this party off!! I should have started waaay before I did but I’ve gotten a lot of cute ideas online. Thanks again for the info.
Good luck!
I love this! I found this while researching for a fun snack idea with a butterfly theme to serve to my children’s preschool class. One of my kids saw this and immediately wanted to make it. We have to make 20 and my kids are 3. Looks like we had better get started right away!!
Yes you do! Have fun!
Hi! I just saw your butterfly post and it is so adorable! My daughter always wants to have her birthdays at school and these will be great for not too much mess. Our Summer project this year is a homemade cardboard box dollhouse. (even though here it is not Summer, but Winter, since we live in Brazil, but we still have a vacation in July) Today we made the fridge and the computer desk out of small boxes we saved up all year. Tomorrow we will make the bed and pillows. Thanks for some inspiration!
You are very welcome!
Hi, I`m from Brazil and I just loved your idea for butterfly.
My son`s party is about Spidermen… do you any idea how can I do the same thing as spiders?
I need help for this…
Congratulations on your beautiful work!
Raquel Pinto
Rio de Janeiro / Brasil
PS.: Sorry my bad english!
Make the pins black?
You have an entire closet dedicated to crafts??! Impressive 🙂 I need more “craft interventions” in my life! These are adorable–thanks for posting!
I do. 🙂 It has really helped with all of these snow days!
Hi Bree! These are really cute ideas for a craft project with the kids, or give away as party favors for birthday parties. Maybe I could use trail mix with sprinkles, MMs, dried chewy fruits, and other sweets to make the butterfly snacks even more festive.
You could use whatever you want. It would be an adorable favor.