VERY Easy Paper Butterflies

VERY Easy Paper Butterflies

For this project all you need is square paper, scissors and some glue.

You need to fold the square paper from corner to corner to make a triangle, unfold it then do it again with opposite corners. Next fold it in half so it’s a rectangle, unfold and repeat it folding it the opposite side.

You should have your square paper looking like this with lots of folds:-

Next fold the paper in half so it’s a rectangle again. This next step is a bit hard to explain but I’ll give it a go …… You need to ‘push’ one end into/inside of the rectangle so there is a triangle at one end of the rectangle.

Then do the same to the other side. You now should have a triangle !!

 

Now fold the triangle in half and where all the ‘loose’ ends are, trim them into a rounded edge.

Open up the half fold so the triangle now have 2 rounded ends. Fold one side of these rounded ends into the middle.

Flip over and fold down a small section of the pointed end.

We put a little bit of glue on the inside of the little folded bit, then you bring that bit around the back to the front (the butterfly back will arch a bit) and glue the little triangle to the long base edge. We placed a peg onto it to keep it in place until it dries.

Once it dried we removed the peg and ……. We now have a butterfly !!

 We made so many of them that we decided to Blu Tack them all onto Serenas bedroom wall above her bed. 

 

The original pattern I found on this website http://www.foreverymom.com/kids-will-love-adorable-easy-paper-butterfly-craft-tutorial/