Butterfly Suncatcher Craft w/ FREE Printable

Celebrate the arrival of spring with a pretty butterfly craft! This cheery butterfly suncatcher is super simple to make with our butterfly printable and makes a lovely decoration to brighten your window.  This sunctacher craft for preschoolers is such a fun spring craft for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students that requires no prep and no special materials! Simply print pdf file with butterfly coloring page and you are ready to make a beautiful butterfly craft for preschoolers. 

Butterfly suncatcher Craft

Spring is right around the corner. I can almost feel the warmth of the sun on my skin as I write this. Sort of, because really it is still winter and still so cold. But fun projects, like this Butterfly Sun Catcher, can help it feel a bit more like spring, even when it’s still a couple weeks away.  Sun catchers are a super simple way to brighten up and add color to any room. Windows bring in so much light, there is always something special about adding fun colors and designs to them. Sun catchers are a super simple way to do this. 

Butterfly suncatcher template

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >>_____ <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

Butterfly craft

For this sun catcher all you need is a few things:

• The printable butterfly
  
• Scissors
  
• Crayons, colored pencils, or markers.

suncatcher butterfly template

The first thing we did was pick the colors that we wanted to use. We chose spring-ish colors but bright ones. We wanted to make sure that the colors would show through, and not be washed out with the light coming through the window. 

Butterfly Suncatcher

Next, color the various shapes inside the butterfly. The only thing that I made sure we did is to not put the same color in shapes that are next to each other. Besides that, though, we had no rules. We just picked on a whim and colored all of the shapes. 

Once it is all colored, you can cut it out. We cut around the outline of the butterfly.

butterfly template printable

When it was all cut out, we chose a window that let in the most light and taped it up. Just one piece of tape worked perfectly. 

You could even do more than one butterfly in the window and have a window full of colorful butterflies. The different shapes make it super fun and it almost looks like stained glass. We love it so much and it helps us remember that spring is actually not that far off!

Butterfly Activities for Kids

Looking for more fun butterfly activities, butterfly crafts, and butterfly printables to add to your day or butterfly theme? Try these:

• Butterfly Math – addition mats for pre-k and kindergarteners
• Number Sense butterfly activities for preschoolers
• Free printable Butterfly missing addend game for Kindergarten
• Count to 10 Butterfly Math Ten Frame Punch Cards
• Butterfly Addition Puzzles
• Kindergarten Butterfly Addition and Subtraction Worksheets
• Free Counting Butterflies Worksheets

Butterfly Printable

• FREE Printable Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheets
• Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet Pack for kids
• Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet and Observation Book
• B is for Butterfly activities for toddler and preschoolers
• Butterfly Puzzles Printable Rhyming Games
• Free printable Butterfly Life Cycle Printables 

Butterfly craft preschool

Looking for more fun butterfly activities, butterfly crafts, and butterfly printables to add to your day or butterfly theme? Try these:

• Try this crafty science project to make stunning chromatography butterflies
• Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft for Kids
• 29 Pretty Butterfly Crafts for Kids
• Shaving Cream Butterfly Craft
• Butterfly Life Cycle Crafts w/ Free Printables

Butterfly Crafts for Preschoolers

• Cute Bowtie Pasta Butterfly Craft for Kids
• Pasta Butterfly Crafts for Kids
• Butterfly Suncatcher Craft
• Simple Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly Craft for Kids
• Pop-up Butterfly Craft
• Pasta butterfly craft

Suncatcher butterfly template

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