These simple tissue paper butterflies are just beautiful! We usually love making these as a fun summer themed craft. This year, however, i found this super cute heart print tissue paper at our local village shop, and i thought how lovely it would be to make a valentines Day version with the kids. They were so pleased with their butterflies that they asked if we could make them for mothers day too!
Here’s what we used
- Patterned tissue paper
- Plain tissue paper
- A wooden Peg
- A pipe cleaner
- Googly eyes
- Scissors
- Glue
How to make our tissue paper butterflies
Take your patterned tissue paper and cut out a rectangle to make the large outer part of the wing. The rectangle that we used here measures approximately 18cm x 24cm
Now we’re going to take our tissue paper and accordion fold it by folding a section approximately 1.5cm and folding it upwards..
Then flipping over the tissue and folding it the same amount on that side. Continue this process..
Until you reach the end and are left with one long folded strip of tissue paper.
Now we’re going to take our plain tissue paper and cut out another rectangle this time, making sure it’s slightly smaller than the last. Our plain rectangle measured approximately 14cm x 20cm
Repeat the same process with this strip as with the patterned one and accordion fold the plain tissue paper all the way to the end.
You should now have two folded strips, as you can see above
Take your scissors and trim both ends of both folded tissue paper strips into a round c shaped curve.
Place the plain paper wings centrally on top of the patterned paper wings and then pinch the centre to flatten the middle together. Clip the peg onto the centre of the wings and then carefully and slowly fan the wings out on either side. Gently adjust the peg if necessary to shape the wings and pull them in the right direction
Once you’re happy with your wings, take your pipe cleaner and roll the end into a spiral on both sides to make the antennae
Clip the antennae into the mouth of the peg. You could optionally glue them in place if you’d like them to be a bit more secure. Finally, add two googly eyes onto the peg to make its face, and your super cute tissue paper butterfly is finished and ready to gift or play with!
