Butterfly from filter bags: handicrafts with children
Your child can make delicate, colorful butterflies out of white filter paper bags. When the butterflies are ready, you can let them flutter around the room.
Age: from 3 years
What you need: watercolors, filter paper bag, kinked straw, pipe cleaner, glue, scissors, brush, water glass
Instructions for making a butterfly out of filter bags
- In a first step, your child cuts off the two long sides of the filter bag with the scissors. Now the two halves of paper are only connected to each other at the lower fold seam.
- Now your child can paint the filter bag with lots of water and watercolors, dab it with a paper towel and let it dry.
- Once the filter bag has dried, unfold the two halves of paper and spread glue on the inside of the seam connecting the halves of the filter paper bag.
- Place the kinked straw in the seam so that the short end of the straw sticks out over the crease on one side.
- Now you fold the butterfly wings together again, press the filter paper firmly together over the straw and hold the butterfly in place for a short time.
- Now your child can cut off a piece of pipe cleaner about 10 cm long and fold it in the middle.
- Your child puts this piece – with the bent end first – into the opening at the shorter end of the straw. The feelers of the butterfly are ready!
- Once the glue has dried, your child can gently let their butterfly flutter around the room.