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Are you looking for some darling and colorful crafts for the new year?
These tie-dyecoffee filter butterfliesare excellent options for doing just that!
One of the best parts of this craft is that each butterfly is as unique as the last.
The supplies are wonderfully simple and use household items!
Below are the full details and some of my recommendations.
Get your filter or filters in front of you and flatten them.
Pro-tipIf youd like to make multiples of the same butterfly, stack the filters together.
If you stack them, the marker will bleed through onto any other coffee paper its touching.
Step 2.when you’ve got your materials together, its time to start the body of your butterfly.
Color or design the filter or filters in any fashion youd like!
Step 3.After youre done creating the pattern or drawing on your winged beauty, its time to add water!
Different methods of water program are welcome, depending on what youd like the intended result to be.
In this post, a spray bottle has been used to spritz the coffee filters.
Step 4.Carefully pick up and separate your filters and bring them to a safe place to sit.
Set all wet filters in a safe place to dry.
Step 6.Once completely dry, accordion fold your butterflies by 13.
Continue the process across the entire length.
Step 7.Repeat the process with as many butterflies as your home or classroom has made.
verify the fold sits well enough that it doesnt completely unfold.
Step 8.Each butterfly then gets picked up and pinched in the middle to bend it in half.
This process will help create the wings.
Do it gently since it is fragile, but enough to make the crease.
Step 9.Grab your preferred colored pipe cleaner and secure it around the middle of the butterfly.
Twist it around and have either end meet so it can become the butterflys antenna.
Step 10.Curl the antennas to your liking for your butterfly!
The more interesting, the better, in my opinion.
Step 11.Finally, re-adjust or adjust the wings out or as youd like!
With that, you have made your first coffee filter butterfly.
There you have it: an easy and fun coffee filter butterfly!
We love these at home as a standalone project or adding them into a bigger project.
What Else Can You Make from Coffee Filters?
The options can be endless since coffee filters are a close enough equivalent to paper!
I have seen pretty flowers, silly monsters, watermelon slices, and everything in between.
We always like to keep them on hand whenever the mood strikes for a butterfly or any other craft.
