Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly Craft for Kids

Spring is so close, I can almost feel it. It is time for some colorful, cheery spring crafts for kids. This super cute and easy-to-make Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly is a fun butterfly craft for kids of all ages to make to welcome summer. This toilet roll butterfly is fun for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergaten, and first graders to make. They will have fun decorating their one-of-a-kind toilet paper roll butterfly craft

Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly

Using toilet paper rolls is the easiest way that I have found to make our crafts 3D and more life like. A Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly body is round and it can be hard to create that look without using something like a toilet paper roll. Plus using a TP roll in a craft is a great way to recycle and reuse. This butterfly craft for kids is something I like to teach in the spring anyway, because that is when Earth Day falls. It works out perfectly. Use this butterfly art and craft with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students to celebrate springtime with a pretty spring craft for kindergartners.

Toilet roll butterfly

For this butterfly craft, you’ll need a few supplies:

Toilet Paper Roll
Construction Paper
Sticky Foam
Pom Poms
Markers
Glue
Scissors

Toilet paper roll butterfly craft

We started this butterfly activities for preschoolers by covering the tp roll with sticky foam. You could use construction paper and glue, though. I think my daughter just really wanted to use foam in this project. Which works great!

Butterfly Craft for Kids

Next, cut the butterfly wings from a piece of construction paper. We glued the foam covered TP roll onto the center of the wings. This is when I stepped back and let her do what she wanted. It was a self led project for her. She glued sparkly pom poms onto the wings, to add some sparkle. She also drew on a variety of shapes onto the wings.

Butterfly art and craft

I had a lightbulb moment as she was making her butterfly. She said that butterfly wings are full of shapes and no two match. How beautiful is that? I didn’t even realize how ironic this craft was to real butterflies. She was making this butterfly HER way. However SHE wanted it to look. No one else’s butterfly would look the same as hers, just as no two butterflies are the same. I was moved by the idea of this.

One thing that I learned early on is that when we are crafting, I let her take the wheel 90% of the time. It isn’t about the final result, it is about how she is strengthening her creativity. We have been crafting since she was old enough to hold a pencil and it shows. She creates things all on her own all the time. It turns out beautiful every time, too, because SHE made it!

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 Life Cycle Worksheet Pack for kids
Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft for Kids
Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet and Observation Book
Butterfly Math – addition mats for pre-k and kindergarteners
Free Rhyming Activities – Butterfly Puzzles
29 Pretty Butterfly Crafts for Kids
Butterfly Math – Missing Addend Activity for Kindergarten
Addition Butterfly Math Puzzles
B is for Butterfly activities for toddler and preschoolers
Butterfly Subtraction for Kindergarten
Butterfly Life Cycle Crafts w/ Free Printables
Pop-up Butterfly Craft

Spring Crafts for Kids

Super cute Printable Name Flower Craft
LOTS of fun and clever March Crafts for Kids
Simple Windsock Craft for kids
Bleeding Tissue Paper Rainy Day Crafts for Kids
EASY ink pad spring crafts for toddlers
EDIBLE, Peeps Playdough Recipe
Fun-to-Make and lovely painted flower craft preschool
Make your own yummy milk Rainbow Toast
This spin art Flower Craft for kids is almost as beautiful as they are fun to make
Simple Sunflower Crafts that are bright, cheery, and simple to make
This flower activity for preschoolers changes things up to use flowers to create art
Plant a Number Line to 10 Math activity for pre-k and kindergarten
Show off these pretty flower suncatcher craft
Printable Easter Craft for Preschoolers
100 Flower Crafts from A to Z
Umbrella Handprint Craft
Silly Grass Head Craft
Handprint Spring flower art projects
Rainbow Hand Art Projects for St Patricks Day
Looking for more fun color activities for kids don’t miss these 37 Colorful Activities for Kids
Super clever, bubble wrap rain craft
Wow! Over 100 Spring Crafts for Kids
Dandelion flower craft project
Stunning, Easy Stained Glass Art for Kids
Kids will go nuts over this painting with cars rainbow project
Amazing Bubble Painting process art project for kids