Butterfly Garden

Here's a fun bunch of butterflies made from school supplies to brighten up the classroom!

Depending on how many butterflies you want to make and the colors, this project totals $11--less if you have supplies on hand!

Materials List: book covers, magnetic buttons, paper clips, magnetic note clips, pencil sharpeners, pencil grips (notice the school supply theme?), scissors and a hot glue gun.

Instructions:

1. Take paper clips and reshape them into the shapes of the parts of a butterfly.

2. Cut the book covers to cover the paperclip outlines.

3. Hot glue the book coverings on the paperclips and glue the wings and antenna to the pencil grip. I added some extra pieces of book cover for design.

4. This butterfly can either be used as a pencil topper since the main part of the body is a pencil grip. Otherwise, hot glue on a magnet to the back for another way for this butterfly to soar!

1. For the red butterfly I decied to change up the shape of the wings but paperclips were still used for the structure and a book cover used to make the wings.

2. This time a pencil sharpener is used for the main part of the body with paperclip antennae glued to the top.

3. To mix up the wing design I cut up some of the paperclips and reshaped the pieces to for wing decoration.

Ta-da!

Last but not least, the wrapped paperclip wire design glued to another pencil grip was used for this little guy. The butterfly was added to a magnetic note clip.

Voila!! These butterflies would be a great craft for kids to make and cute gifts for teachers! Enjoy!