Coffee Filter Butterflies

These are a quick, cute little craft for spring time. You will need coffee filters, pipecleaners, and watercolor paints.

Have your child paint the coffee filter with the paint. Dot markers would work too-maybe even better? (Both bleed through though, so put something under the filter.)

The more color, the better. This is all I could get out of my two year old whose favorite color is black. Can you tell which one I made? :)

Once they're dry, pinch the middle into an accordian and then twist a pipecleaner around it to hold it in place. Curl the tips of the antennae and you're done! 

Haha, I was picturing these turning out a little more bright and cheery, but the only pipecleaners we had were gold ones leftover from Christmas and our wings were mostly white. Ha, oh well. Maybe we'll make more another day....or maybe we'll just keep our slightly depressing but still cute butterflies. :)