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The Best Butterfly Art Projects for Kids

by The Artful Parent Editorial Team
April 21, 2025
butterfly art projects

Here are the best butterfly art projects for kids. From watercolors to smush art to stained glass, these projects are fluttering with fun!

Updated May 2025

Butterflies are fun, colorful, and perfect for all kinds of creative art projects! Kids love making butterfly crafts because they can use bright colors, cool shapes, and their imagination.

These butterfly art ideas are simple, playful, and great for a variety of ages. From painting and printing to cutting and gluing, there’s something here for every artist.

Whether you’re crafting for spring, a butterfly unit in your classroom, or just for fun, these projects are sure to bring smiles and color to your day!

The Best Butterfly Art Projects for Kids

symmetrical butterfly
Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

1. Symmetrical Painted Butterflies

Learn how to paint butterflies with this fun and easy symmetry method. A perfect process art activity for kids of all ages! 

rubbing alcohol watercolor butterfly
Photo by Andrea Martelle

2. Watercolor Butterflies

How to paint watercolor butterflies using rubbing alcohol for the decorations on the butterfly wings. This is a fun art idea for kids of all ages, and adults, too!

watercolor butterfly mobile
Photo by Andrea Martelle

3. Painting Butterfly Mobiles

Kids can make watercolor painting butterfly mobiles using wax resist techniques with crayons. Hang around your house for a colorful display.

shaving cream butterflies
Photo by Andrea Martelle

4. Paper Plate Butterfly Craft

This easy paper plate butterfly craft for kids uses our favorite shaving cream marbling technique. Simply cut the marbled paper plate into wings and then decorate your butterfly! 

coffee filter butterfly
Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

5. How to Make Coffee Filter Butterflies

Painting coffee filter butterflies is an easy and fun way to make colorful butterflies to hang around the house!

Raised Salt Art Butterfly
Photo by Andrea Martelle

6. Raised Salt Painting Butterflies

Use one of our favorite process art activities to make butterflies! Draw a butterfly shape in white glue, cover in salt and watch as the watercolors spread across the design.

butterfly suncatcher
Photo by Andrea Martelle

7. A Suncatcher Butterfly

Cut a butterfly shape out of contact paper and use flower petals, tissue paper, feathers, or more to decorate beautiful wings.

stained glass butterflies
Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

8. Stained Glass Butterflies

Painting stained glass butterflies allows you to explore the symmetry of butterflies while creating a beautiful and unique artwork.

flower petal butterfly
Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

9. Flower Petal Butterflies

Arrange flower petals into different patterns and butterfly shapes to make beautiful, ephemeral artwork. 

butterfly on orange slice
Photo by Andrea Martelle

10. Raising Butterflies with Kids

This isn’t an art project but will be the inspiration for all the others! Raising butterflies with kids is magical and rewarding! Start with a cup of caterpillars and watch the entire metamorphosis happen right before your eyes! 

We hope you try these fun butterfly art projects this spring!

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