...he was a beautiful butterfly!

Today we took down our Valentine's decorations and needed something springy to take it's place. Easter is still a ways away so we decided to make butterflies! The whole project was kind of inspired by Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I love his books ~ especially the artwork! We made the wings with mod podge and tissue paper and the body (the caterpillar) with colored paper and pipe cleaners for the antennae. They turned out really cute and they both did a great job with the mod podge.

Who doesn't love mod podge?
I even had to join in the fun!

 

First we covered our cardboard with colored tissue squares

Here's Gregory's sheet all covered

Bailey adding a final square or two

As the wings were drying we made the caterpillars and
decorated them with dot markers and pipe cleaners
for the antennae. They played with them while the wings dried.

Here's Bailey's beautiful butterfly!

Gregory's butterfly flying around

A closeup shot.
As Bailey put it, "Aren't they adorable?