Lolly Stick Leaf Butterfly Craft

We just love this cute little lolly stick leaf butterfly craft! So simple to make just using leaves and sprigs of herbs or twigs. This is a easy craft for younger kids.

One of the best parts of doing nature crafts with kids, is that you get to start them with a nature walk whilst you gather up real leaves to use. And remember you can make this with small leaves, big leaves, lots of leaves!

You could even turn this into stick crafts session and gather up sticks to use instead of popsicle sticks!

You can either make this as a summer craft with green leaves, or turn use it for fall crafts sessions and use fall leaves in a range of different colours. Colourful leaves help turn this into a fun fall craft. Use red leaves, yellow, bright oranges and browns.

We think the BEST part of this great craft is definitely the little walk first. Getting out and about in the fresh air is super good for kids!

What You Need To Make Lolly Stick Leaf Butterfly Craft

All the craft supplies needed to make this cute butterfly leaf craft!

• 2 lolly sticks (popsicle sticks) - we buy big craft packs of lolly sticks

• glue

• leaves and twigs

• glitter paint

• felt tip pen or chunky black marker

• ribbon

• Scissors - we like the Crayon ouch-free toddler scissors!

How To Make Lolly Stick Leaf Butterfly Craft

Simple step-by-step instructions for creating leaf butterflies

Step One - attach the leaves

• Glue your leaves in a wing shape onto one of the lolly sticks (butterfly bodies). These will be the beautiful leaf butterfly wings. So try to arrange them in a butterfly shape with a top wing and lower wings.

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Step Two - draw a face on your leaf butterfly craft

• Draw a little face onto the lolly stick. With older children you could use googly eyes to create a little face.

Step Three - add some glitter

• Decorate the top and bottom wings and add some glitter paint designs to the wings 

Step Four - add some antennae

• Glue little sprigs to the top of the lolly sticks to be the leaf butterfly antennae 

Step Five - decorate you leaf butterfly craft with a bow

• Tie your sticks with a bow to decorate if you wish

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More Learning Opportunities With Our Leaf Butterfly Craft

Just a few different things you can try with the butterfly craft

• Try out different bugs or creatures - try making other winged bugs, minibeasts and creatures with the leaves and sticks. Birds, Beatles and Ladybirds are cute to make.

• Use them to make little pop up puppet shows - help the children with their imaginative play and encourage story telling with the colourful butterflies.

• Make butterfly keepsake - Decorate them more ornately and use them to decorate plant pots or hang from trees so they flatter on a windy day.

• Read butterfly books - add to the learning experience by reading butterfly stories - we just LOVE the Hungry Caterpillar.

• Chat about symmetry - use the fall leaf craft to chat about symmetry - maybe use small mirrors so the children can look at the half butterfly reflections.

• Make leaf prints - make beautiful colourful leaf-print butterflies and work on fine motor skills with cutting them out from the paper and creating really colorful butterflies!

Happy Crafting!

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