Mrs. Cambria's Art Room

Mother's Day Butterflies

Materials:

-cardboard toilet paper rolls

-construction paper cut 4 inches wide, assorted colors

-whole sheets of construction paper, assorted colors

Butterflies Overview:  We made these butterflies for Mother’s Day.  We collected toilet paper rolls for about a month before this project.

Karli, Ian and Jayda

1- Each student needs one toilet paper roll, one rectangle of paper cut 4 inches thick, and one whole sheet of construction paper.

2- Cut a thin strip of paper off one of the short edges of the 4 inch rectangle, this will become the antennae.

3- Cut the thin strip of paper in half and glue it to the top middle of the rectangular paper, flip the paper over and draw a face right under the antennae, and decorate the rest of that paper.

Hand wings from step 7

4- Apply a lot of glue all over the back of the rectangular paper and roll it onto the toilet paper roll.  If the cardboard roll is longer than the 4 inch paper cut the extra cardboard off the bottom.

5- The students should still have a blank sheet construction paper, fold it in half hamburger style.

6- Trace your hand onto the paper that has been folded in half make sure the palm of your hand overlaps the crease.  

7- Cut out the tracing of your hand and keep the paper folded in half so you end up with 2 hand shapes connected. This will be the wings.

8- Write a note to your Mom on the back, and decorate the front of the wings.

9- Glue the wings onto the back of the toilet paper roll.

Mrs. Cooks class: Addy, Teela, Sadie, Taelon, and Leah