Easy To Make Watercolor Butterfly Wreaths

Butterfly crafts are one of our favorite crafts during spring. We just love butterflies and have so much fun with them. We are always looking for new ideas for them.

We have been on a wreath kick at our house. We have had so much fun making different ones of them.

Today I have a fun wreath with watercolor butterflies on them. It is fun and simple to make.

The Watercolor Butterfly Wreaths are a great addition to the Bug and Insect activities and wreath crafts on the site.

What is a Wreath Craft

A wreath is a collection of items around a circle. It can be used as a seasonal decoration around a house.

Watercolor Butterfly Wreath Craft

The Watercolor Butterfly Wreath craft is a fun craft made with a paper plate and butterflies that are watercolor painted.

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Butterfly Book to Read with the Butterfly Wreaths

We read the book A Butterfly Is Patient before doing this craft. We talked about how many different colors of butterflies there are.

What you need for the Watercolor Butterfly Wreath Craft

• paper plate with center cut out
• dot markers
• watercolors
• glue
• butterfly punch (our is similar to this one)
• watercolor paper

How To Make The Watercolor Butterfly Wreath Craft

You can see all the steps we used to make the Watercolor Butterfly Wreath. And you can also check out this paper plate butterfly craft after you are done.

Step 1: Paint the Wreath

We first painting the paper plate with dot markers. We used greens and a mix of colors to make it look like flowers. After we finished we set the plates aside to dry.

Step 2: Use a Butterfly Punch To Help with Painting Height

We used one of the butterflies punched out to see how tall we needed to paint on the paper. We made 4 rows on the watercolor paper.

Step 3: Paint the Watercolor Paper

After we knew where to paint and how high, we started having fun painting the paper in fun and creative ways. We have fun with this. It was loads of fun. You could always do just one color for all the butterflies as well.

Step 4: Punch out the Butterflies

After we let the watercolor dry we then punched out the butterflies. This can be hard for younger kids to do because of how thick the paper is. If they can’t do it have them position the paper and help them punch it out. Or you could just punch the butterflies beforehand.

Step 5: Glue the Butterflies on the Wreath

Finally, we glued all our butterflies onto the paper plate to finish off our wreaths.

Here is a look at our Watercolor Butterfly Wreaths Craft

More Butterfly Activities for Kids

Butterfly No-Prep Weekly Packs are another set of no-prep weekly packs that are great for spring and summer. You have butterfly life cycle activities, with a mix of math and language. You have six grade levels pre, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.

Butterfly Fine Motor Mat Printables has 18 fine motor mats with a mix of tracing, templates, and dot markers with a butterfly theme.

Butterfly Watercolor Painting With Cooke Cutter is a simple watercolor painting you can do with kids and a cookie cutter. You can have fun with diferent colors and paint with watercolors.

From Caterpillar to Butterfly – Painting Butterflies is a fun butterfly painting project. This is easy to do and great for almost any age! You can work on symmetry with this painting activity.

Butterfly Activities Pack for Prewriting, Shape, ABCs & Numbers. It has no-prep pages, easy reader books, clip cards and tracing strip for kids to learn with. Plus the butterfly theme is great for spring.

Check out all the fun Bug & Insect Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.

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