Cardboard tube garden bugs are super cute and a fun spring craft for preschoolers. They’re fun to make, simple and look fab.
What you need:
- cardboard tubes
- sheets of coloured or patterned A4 paper
- glue
- sticky tape
- google eyes
- mini pompom noses
- pipe cleaners
What you do:
- Spread the cardboard tube with glue and then wrap the cardboard tube either in stripes for the bee or plain coloured paper for the butterfly body – secure with sticky tape at the back.
- Cut out two circles of coloured paper for the garden bug faces.
- Stick google eyes, pompom nose and little mouth shapes onto the face.
- Cut a pipe cleaner in half and coil the ends into a spiral.
- Using sticky tape attach the pipe cleaners to the inside of the top of the cardboard tubes, behind the face as antenna.
- Cut out the butterfly or bee wing shapes and using sticky tape stick them to the back of the cardboard tube body.
- Decorate the butterfly wings either with cut out paper shapes or stickers.
Enjoy making and playing with your beautiful butterfly and bee crafts!
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