Looking for a fun and easy craft activity for kids? Try our handprint butterfly craft! Perfect for a spring or summer day, this DIY project is sure to bring smiles. Learn how to make it now.

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This handprint butterfly is a great way to memorialize a child's handprints. It is a fun craft for kids of all ages and makes a beautiful butterfly.

Easy handprint crafts make great gifts for Mom or Dad, or even Grandparents. Little hands and little handprints make great craft projects and easy crafts. Adding a popsicle stick to the bottom of the handprint butterflies makes a fun art activity.

Handprint Butterfly

This type of craft (Handprint Butterfly) is undoubtedly a favorite in our home. I love seeing the growth of my children's hands over the years - especially when they are toddlers! These make for great keepsakes! You also only need a few items for this craft and the "mess" from the paint is a fun mess that children love.

A Handprint Butterfly makes for a fun Spring craft, a Mother's Day gift, Summer Crafts, or an easy preschool activity. A handprint poem would also be a fun addition to this adorable and easy craft. Allow the children (if old enough to pick out their own colors to make it more personal).

Some of our other favorite handprint crafts include Fall Tree Craft, Spider Handprint Craft, and Handprint Turkey.

Butterfly Crafts For Kids

I am the mom that includes the name and year on the back of crafts like this and then we typically line the "gallery wall" in our home with seasonal crafts. This Butterfly Handprint craft will certainly brighten up any home and bring Spring indoors.

Allow the child(ren) to choose their own colors and talk about the colors with them. Learning truly can be fun and interactive. For preschool age, this is a fun activity that helps with color recognition and fine motor skills. My children love to talk about the colors they each choose when painting and it's fun to see their imagination grow.

Bright colors are for sure a must with this Butterfly craft as we move into Spring and Summer. You can use popsicle sticks for the body of the butterfly, colorful pipe cleaners for the antennas, and googly eyes for the eyes.

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Handprint Art

If you want to have a handprint poem added to this, you can use a black marker to draw the eyes, body, and antennas. With handprint-painted crafts, there are ways to adapt to what you need or want.

*A tip for keeping cleaner lines for the painted hands: put the paint color on a thin sponge and have the child press their hand onto the sponge and then onto the paper. Sometimes with wiggly fingers, it's hard to get the painted picture we want.

Using a sponge can help, but also it can be a lot of fun for the children to have their hands painted with a paintbrush. Get your paint out and fill your home or classroom with BRIGHT handprint-painted Butterflies!!

Supplies For Butterfly Handprint

Butterfly Template (download below)
Colored Craft Papers
Acrylic paints
Paintbrushes
Markers
Craft glue
Pencil
Scissors

How To Make Butterfly With Handprint

Butterfly's Wings

Start with picking at least two different colors of paints. Each set of wings (sets of handprints) should have at least one color. Remember to use a bright color as it will stand out.

Use a thick paintbrush to apply the prepared acrylic paint on the palm of each hand. Make sure to cover the palm nicely and evenly.

Take a piece of white cardstock paper and press the painted palm against the paper. Keep the palm on the paper for a few seconds and then remove your hand gently from the paper. When thinking bout the type of paper, if you are planning on giving this as a gift, then you will want to use card stock or thick craft paper.

Similarly, create a second set of hands. Use a different colored acrylic paint to create another pair of hand shapes. It is really cute if the second set is a larger handprint possibly a parent or grandparent. Its also cute if you create it with multiple kids.

Let each of the pair of hand-prints dry while you create the butterfly body base.

Downloading and printing a butterfly body and the butterfly's head from the free template at the bottom of the post. There are three different sizes of butterflies on the template to pick from. Decide which one fits your handprints.

Butterfly's Body

Trace the body and antenna out of whatever colored craft paper you want for your body of the butterfly. We used yellow construction paper. Cut out the eyes from the template or you can always use googly eyes.

Glue the butterfly's antennae to the top of the butterfly. Then glue the eyes onto the butterfly's face. Using a marker or sharpie, draw on a little smile.

Once the handprints are dry, using scissors, cut out the hand shape.

Glue one set of each of the handprints to each other with the thumbs facing out. If you have two different size hands, put the big hand prints at the top.

Glue the other pair of hands opposite of the first hands. Make sure the base of the palms is slightly overlapped.

Lastly, attach the butterfly's body to the middle of the butterfly wings.

Viola, you have a cute butterfly handprint craft!

Adding Details to Butterfly Handprints

The handprint butterflies are great just as they are, but in the case that your child wants to add some flare or add more to the butterfly handprints, there are lots of fun options.

They can add paper confetti, pom poms, or even sequins to the wings. Simply adding them in a fun way so as to not cover up the handprints completely is great.

In the case they would like fancier antennas, they can glue a pipe cleaner to the butterfly and curl the ends for some added flare.

Last, if they would like to make them more of a butterfly puppet, simply add a popsicle stick or craft stick to the back with glue.

Whatever the end results, have fun with it!

HAPPY CRAFTING!

We highlighted this Spring Craft along with some other fun kid's crafts in our May Crafts, June Crafts, and Mother's Day Crafts along with our 101+ Easy Kids Craft Ideas.

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Handprint Butterfly

Looking for a fun and easy craft activity for kids? Try our handprint butterfly craft! Perfect for a spring or summer day, this DIY project is sure to bring smiles. Learn how to make it now.

Course Kids Crafts

Cook Time 30

Total Time 30

Author Alli Ward

Equipment

Scissors
Paintbrushes

Ingredients

Instructions

Start with picking at least two different colors of paint. Each set of wings (sets of handprints) should have at least one color. Remember to use a bright color as it will stand out.
Use a thick paintbrush to apply the prepared acrylic paint on the palm of each hand. Make sure to cover the palm nicely and evenly.
Take a piece of white cardstock paper and press the painted palm against the paper. Keep the palm on the paper for a few seconds and then remove your hand gently from the paper. When thinking bout the type of paper, if you are planning on giving this as a gift, then you will want to use card stock or thick craft paper.
Similarly, create a second set of hands. Use a different colored acrylic paint to create another pair of hand shapes. It is really cute if the second set is a larger handprint possibly a parent or grandparent. Its also cute if you create it with multiple kids.
Let each of the pair of hand-prints dry while you create the butterfly body base.
Downloading and print of a butterfly body and the butterfly's head from the free template at the bottom of the post. There are three different sizes of butterflies on the template to pick from. Decide which one fits your handprints.
Trace the body and antenna out of whatever colored craft paper you want for your body of butterfly. We used yellow construction paper. Cut out the eyes from the template or you can always use googly eyes.
Glue the butterfly's antennae to the top of the butterfly. Then glue the eyes onto the butterfly's face. Using a marker or sharpie, draw on a little smile.
Once the handprints are dry, using scissors, cut out the hand shape.
Glue one set of each of the handprints to each other with the thumbs facing out. If you have two different size hands, put the big hand prints at the top.
Glue the other pair of hands opposite of the first hands. Make sure the base of the palms is slightly overlapped.
Lastly, attach the butterfly's body to the middle of the butterfly wings.