How to make a Butterfly with Coffee Filter
This Coffee Filter Butterfly Craft pulls out that fun tie-dye craziness in you. Perfect craft for a group of any age kids. Easy and low cost too!
Servings: 1 Coffee Filter Butterfly
Cost: $1
Equipment
- none needed
Ingredients
- Coffee filters (2 per person)
- Pipe cleaner
- Water based markers
- Cake pan or cookie sheet
Instructions
- Each person needs two coffee filters to make a Coffee Filter Butterfly Craft. Place one coffee filter on top of the other and the pattern will then be similar on each filter when you are done. I got out cake pans or a cookie sheet to put under this craft so it didn’t go all over the place when we got it wet or the markers didn’t leak onto the table surface.
- Color a design on your filter with the water based markers. The older grands colored designs that radiated out of the center of the coffee filter and were symmetrical designs. The younger grands just colored all over the filter. Both worked well.
- A spray bottle of water worked really well to spray water onto the filters and cause the water based markers to run and blend. Wet the filter but don’t douse it or the colors will not just run but puddle and mix into one dull color across the whole filter. Let the filters sit and dry. When I set them in the sun it didn’t take very long.Once dry, separate the two filters.
- Fold each filter with an accordian fold, back and forth in about a ½ inch width.Place one filter on top of the other and twist a pipe cleaner around the center. We used a black pipe cleaner but they can be any color you want.Gently pull each of the four sections of the wings open. Make a twist on the end of each pipe cleaner to look like antennae.
Notes
There are helpful tips on the post.
Want more butterfly craft ideas?