Printable Free Butterfly Crafts

These free butterfly crafts are so easy to make! This activity is perfect for Valentine’s Day. Just give each of your students one sheet of colored paper and a lollipop. Children working in pairs must each have a different color of paper.

This craft can be used for Valentine’s Day or for Spring. Just chose the right colors of paper for the theme that you are using. Click here to download a free printable Google Doc template of this craft or get the free TpT download of the free butterfly crafts.

I love to make fun classroom crafts. As an Amazon affiliate, I may earn a commission for purchases using my links. For this activity, your studsents will need lollipops, colored sheets with the templates printed, scissors, and glue. The lollipops are for the butterflies’ heads and body and the colorful sheets of paper are for the wings. This template has the wing shapes and patterns. If you are using it for your spring theme activity, be sure to use bright colors of paper. For a Valentine’s Day theme activity, use red and pink paper.

For these printable free butterfly crafts, here are the steps for your students to make them:

1. Fold your paper in half.
2. Draw a large heart and cut it out so that you have two identical hearts.
3. Wrap and glue the pointy bases of the hearts around the lollipop stick. These will form the butterfly’s wings.
4. Exchange the remaining scrap of paper you have with your partner. This will give you a new color to add patterns to your butterfly’s wings.
5. Draw circles on the scrap of paper and cut them out.
6. Stick the circles on the wings to make spots.
7. Done!

Older children can add more details of their own to their butterfly like adding eyes and a mouth to the lollipop to make a face.

You can also download the template here it for free straight from my TpT Store. If you want to see what the printable template page looks like, you can check out the extra thumbnail on the TpT listing (same link above).

Here are three feedback reviews that teachers have posted on the TpT download for this printable butterfly craft:

I love this craft! I read a book about giving to my students and then had them create the butterfly. All of the butterflies were sent to cancer patients! Thank you! – Edrie C.

INGENIOUS! An incentive to “win” the lollipop. – Carol A.

Really cute craft for this time of year. Thanks so much! – Brian Hopkins

If you liked using this template, I’d love to hear your feedback on it. Feedback can be left in the comments below or on the TpT page listing.

If you need me to create custom printablecrafts, you can ask me at my TpT store, Nyla’s Crafty Teaching. Just click on any of the printables listed there and then go to the ‘Ask Me a Question’ section to reach me.

Find butterfly themed classroom decor ideas here.

You can find printable Valentine’s Day cards for your students to color in this blog post.

If you need ideas for decorating your class for Valentine’s Day, you can find beautiful Valentine’s Day themed classroom decor ideas in this blog post.

More Crafts for Valentine’s Day:

How to Make a Heart Keychain for Valentine’s Day – An easy step-by-step tutorial

Free Printable Valentine’s Day Bookmarks – Reward your students with these eight hilarious bookmarks in time for Valentine’s Day.

I hope you have found Free Butterfly Crafts that are right for your students through this post.