This craft project was posted on a blog titled “I Can Teach My Child”. http://www.icanteachmychild.com/2011/05/tie-dye-butterfly-magnet.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+icanteachmychild/HJwa+(I+can+teach+my+child!)&utm_content=FaceBook.
I thought the butterflies were cute and easy to do. I have shown some of the steps as we did the project, just as on the attached page link. We have yet to purchase magnetic tape and place them on the fridge.
You will need 1 coffee filter per butterfly (makes the wings), markers, a spray bottle with water, pom poms, one clothespin per butterfly, googly eyes (2 per butterfly). You can try tacky glue or Elmer’s glue. I hot glued the pom poms on for my girls.
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| Jayden using marker on one of the coffee filters |
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| Layne spray water on coffee filter that has been colored with marker |
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| Letting filters dry. Less water is probably better. They took a while to dry. |
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| Close-up to one of the filters. Neat to see the colors bleed out on filter. |
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| Filter accordion folded to be used later as wings. |
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| Assembly of pom poms to make body |
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| A few bodies with googly eyes. |
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| The four we made. Layne helped pick the pom poms to use. |
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| One of body and wings and another done wings waiting on the sideline. |
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| Three completed. |
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| The four that we made. |
