Butterflies with magazines. Crafts for children

Eco-friendly children's craft for a colorful butterfly made from the leaves of an old magazine. This butterfly can be made with recycling material such as magazines or old newspapers and then used as a gift or to decorate your children's room in a fun way. This children's craft will help children to

Eco-friendly children's craft for a colorful butterfly made from the leaves of an old magazine. This butterfly can be made with recycling material such as magazines or old newspapers and then used as a gift or to decorate your children's room in a fun way.

This children's craft will help children todevelop creativityand imagination as they learn to appreciate the importance of recycling and caring for the environment.

Materials

  • Magazines
  • Pipe cleaners
  • scissors

Tips: To make the butterflies look prettier, use bright and colorful pages. Take into account the colors of the child's room to match.

How to do, step by step, butterflies with magazine paper

1. For each butterfly take two pages of magazine. Cut two squares one of 10 cm on each side and one of 12.

2. Starting at one corner, it bends diagonally in accordion form with folds of 0.5 cm each.

3. Fold a 30 cm pipe cleaner in half and pull out a small loop. Join the butterfly-shaped squares and center them inside the pipe cleaner.

4. To secure the wings, twist the pipe cleaner above and below them and curl the ends for the antennas.