Paper Bag Butterfly Craft Activities For Kids

This paper bag butterfly craft is great for little kids in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school. It’s the newest addition to our butterfly crafts for kids. And, like many of our other posts, we’ve included a free printable butterfly template to make
it even easier on you to make with the kids!
There’s something kids just love about butterflies. It could be their bright colors, their large wings or something else entirely, but kids (and adults!) are mesmerized by them.
We’re showing you how to turn a plain ‘ol brown paper bag into a bright butterfly ready to take flight!

Directions
Download the butterfly craft template, print out and cut out the pieces you’ll need.
Hands holding butterfly craft template
Take each of the butterfly’s eyes and glue them to the middle of the head piece. Use your .25″ circle punch, scissors or markers to make or draw on a small nose underneath the two eyes.
Hands gluing eyes onto yellow rectangle
Eyes gluing on nose to butterfly face
Place the pink cheeks on either side of the mouth and glue in place. Like the nose, if you don’t have a circle punch or you want to save steps, you can have kids color in the cheeks too!
Make the butterfly’s striped body by gluing on the light orange stripes onto the yellow body
piece. Once they’re glued on, cut off the excess paper with the scissors. If you need to simplify this craft you can always skip this step or let the kids use markers to decorate instead of adding the paper.
Hands gluing dark yellow stripes to yellow rectangle
Glue the completed butterfly face onto the top flap of the brown paper bag.
Hands gluing butterfly face to paper bag
Place the striped body on the bottom part of the paper bag and glue in place.
Hands gluing butterfly body onto paper bag
Make the butterfly’s wings by gluing the paper accents on the inside of the wings. You can get extra fancy and glue on rhinestones, sequins, glitter or stickers too!
Hands gluing details onto paper bag butterfly wings
Take the completed butterfly wings and glue them to the inside of the paper bag. You can also glue it to the back of the paper bag, but we think the inside looks better when you’re using it as a puppet.
Hands gluing butterfly wings to paper bag craft
Take your pipe cleaner and cut it in half. Wrap one end of each pipe cleaner around a marker to make the butterfly’s antennae.
Hands twisting pink pipe cleaner around marker