Our hand bug puppets series continues with this lovely butterfly paper hand puppet.
This lovely paper craft is super fun to make and to play with. We even include a craft template your kids can use to make one – either color it in or use as a template.
If your kids love to color in and give their creations their personal touch the template / stencil will be perfect for them to use.
You can naturally make this craft project for kids without a template too.
Ready? Let’s make a butterfly puppet!
What you need
our printable template (you can grab it at the end of this tutorial)
printer
scissors
glue
paper (either white paper or
color paper – construction paper will work great for the body while regular print paper is best for wings to make them light)
Step 1:Print out our template. We have 3 sizes available to fit different hand sizes – from toddler to adult.
If you decide to color in this craft, we recommend you color the parts before you cut them out. Get creative! Some glitter never hurts (well
glitter glue never hurts,
we all know glitter can hurt, when you have to clean it up).
Step 2:Cut out the pieces.
Step 3:Trace the butterfly body on a sheet of brown construction paper (gray or black will do too, well any color really).
Step 4:Cut it out. Decorate the head – we used wiggle eye stickers as we love working with those and have drawn the mouth with a black marker.
Step 5:Cut out the legs. The easiest way to do it is to cut the rectangle with all the legs. Don’t cut the individual legs.
Step 6: Now cut the legs.
Step 7;Fold the legs into an accordion.
Step 8:Glue them on the body of the butterfly.
Step 9;Trace the wings on paper. Our wings will be yellow.
Step 10:Cut the wings out.and decorate.
Step 11:Glue the wings on the body (fold them at the base).
Step 12:Cut the strap and glue it at the bottom of your butterfly hand puppet.
All done and ready to fly away!
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