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Beautiful Leaf Butterfly Craft – Fun Nature Art For Kids

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Take the kids on a nature walk and collect leaves to make this gorgeous leaf butterfly! Kids will love painting leaves to reveal the painted wings.

Summer is here and it’s a time to be outdoors and explore nature with the kids! If your kids are into collecting fallen leaves, foliage and rocks like mine are, they will love making this pretty leaf butterfly! Turn leaves into lovely painted butterfly wings and sticks into butterfly bodies!

This nature art project is also a great way to teach kids about symmetry!

What do you need to make this leaf butterfly craft?

All you need are some leaves, paint, a stick, paper, marker and glue! You can make various-sized butterflies by trying larger and smaller leaves. 

You can also experiment with different color paints and layering of colors.

If you don’t have a stick you can simply draw in the body and use the same black marker for the antennae. Or draw in a body with paint!

What should I do with my butterfly art?

After the paint dries you can put it in a shadow box and display in the home! Or you can hang up a bunch on a line to make a row of pretty butterfly art!

If you want to grab smaller leaves you can also make card-sized version for a lovely homemade DIY card.

Leaf Butterfly Art – Materials:

  • Leaves
  • Paint (we used acrylic)
  • Black marker
  • Stick
  • Glue

leaf butterfly craft

INSTRUCTIONS

Yield: Leaf Butterfly Art

Leaf Butterfly Craft

leaf butterfly craft
Take the kids on a nature walk and collect leaves to make this gorgeous leaf butterfly! Kids will love painting leaves to reveal the painted wings.

Materials

  • Leaves
  • Paint (we used acrylic)
  • Black marker
  • Stick
  • Glue
  • Paper (cardstock, mixed media paper or watercolor paper work well)

Instructions

  1. Grab some leaves and paint them on the side that have veins.
  2. Print the leaves onto paper. You can reuse the same leaf if you use the same color pattern. If your leaf gets soggy find another similar sized one.
  3. Glue a stick in the middle for the body.
  4. Draw antennas with a black marker.

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