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On Sunday, we decided to give another craft from the Small Hands Creating Hope book (only two days left to donate and get your copy!) a go.
These butterflies (ours are slightly different from the version in the book) were submitted by Sun Hats and Wellie Boots. I especially love the transparent wings!
We didn’t have any plastic sheeting available to make wings, so I took a laminating pouch, opened it up, and had the kids color the inside with Sharpie pens. This has the added bonus that the pen ink is permanently enclosed inside the plastic.
Once the laminating pouch was sealed, we cut it into wing shapes, added pipe cleaner bodies and bead eyes, and it was time to play! The kids love that they can slide their fingers between the butterflies’ bodies and wings to easily carry them around:
Emma was even inspired to make up a (very quietly sung) butterfly song:
It’s Learning Laboratory Monday! What fun, creative, hands-on learning have you been enjoying? Here are a few favorite posts from last week’s linky:
- Cooking With Kids and What They Gain From It from Stay At Home Educator. I also love that she used empty cans for safe stacking fun in this post
- Living History from Taming the Goblin
- How can you make a lemon sink? from Science Sparks
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Very cute craft, I love it, thanks for sharing! I already donated and got my book, it’s a great book :)
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maryanne Reply:
July 2nd, 2012 at 7:44 am
Thanks for donating, and I’m so glad you like the book. My kids are huge fans! :)
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Your butterflies turned out so beautifully! What a great idea to use the laminating pocket in place of acetate. Sweet video too!
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maryanne Reply:
July 2nd, 2012 at 7:51 am
Thank you, Ness! I had to include that video, she was singing so sweetly on the swing :)
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Those butterflies turned out lovely!
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maryanne Reply:
July 2nd, 2012 at 8:40 am
Thank you!
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The laminating pouch is a nice touch.
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Those are GORGEOUS!!! And beautiful singing from Emma, too. :) Lovely, lovely, lovely.
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maryanne Reply:
July 2nd, 2012 at 10:26 am
Aren’t they pretty? I love the effect of the transparent wings- makes them feel very butterfly-ish to me, somehow.
I saw transparent-wing butterflies in real life once, in a rain forest in Nicaragua (parents lived there while I was in college). You could see the blue veins in their wings – absolutely stunning.
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Elisa | blissfulE Reply:
July 3rd, 2012 at 12:09 am
How incredible you’ve seen some like that in person!!
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maryanne Reply:
July 3rd, 2012 at 6:45 am
They were incredibly beautiful :)
Cute butterflies!
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Love your butterflies!!! Some do have transparent wings!
Thanks for the link up too!
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maryanne Reply:
July 2nd, 2012 at 3:07 pm
I know! I saw some once, and they were so pretty!!!
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What a great idea to use a laminating pouch! Love that you can see both sides of the butterflies wings : )
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Oh, I love those. The boys are really into looking for butterflies but we’ve not seen that many this year. Maybe because it’s very dry here? We’ll just have to make some!
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OMG, I’ve done so many butterfly crafts with kids, and I never saw or thought of that idea! thats why I love coming to your blog. ;)
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maryanne Reply:
July 2nd, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Thanks! :)
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Sweet butterflies and a sweet butterfly song! :)
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Very pretty!
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These butterflies are precious! I absolutely love them!
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I’m loving those laminated sheets!!!
Great idea!
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These are really adorable! I love the bead eyes!
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maryanne Reply:
July 3rd, 2012 at 6:45 am
Isn’t it a neat craft! I love all the ideas in that book!
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Lovely! Those butterflies are beautiful.
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Hi! This is my first visit to your site. I found you on Twitter. :-) So happy to read your post. I love your butterfly craft! Very creative!
On my blog, Storytime ABC’S, I have several Blog Hops happening. One is a Bugs ABC’S (Activities, Books, Crafts, and Snacks) Blog Hop. I would like to invite you to link your post to the Hop because it is such a fun idea. I think it would fit in perfectly with the other ideas about bugs. I hope you will visit my blog and linkup! You will find the ABC’S Blog Hops in my sidebar or in the blog hop tab at the top of my page here: http://librarystorytimeabcs.blogspot.com
I hope you and your family have a wonderful and safe 4 th!
~K~
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Love their beautiful butterflies!
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I love those and the use of the cellophane. Beautiful!
Thank you for linking to Family Frolics!
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Those butterflies are cute! They’re very creative I should say.
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Why didn’t I came up with that idea?
It is so simple and truly nice to see!
I love it!
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