Butterfly DIY Crafts to Make (15+ Easy Craft Ideas)

Butterfly crafts are perfect any time of year, but feel free to save this for Spring season too!

Learn how to make butterfly themed crafts in a world of varieties in each of these dedicated posts. 

I just heart crafty things and didn't realize I had so many beautiful butterfly crafts until recently.

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Which one of these butterfly design posts is your favorite?

These crafts aren't geared towards little kids, learning the butterfly life cycle and making life cycles on a bulletin board with butterfly shapes.

Although the life cycle of a butterfly is super interesting and every person from 1st grade to high school should know it a little bit...these crafts are just butterfly craft ideas for home decor, gifts and papercrafts.

These are the perfect way to introduce a butterfly design in the home.

How to Make Holographic Stickers with Cricut Maker

Learn all the tips and tricks to making holographic stickers using Cricut print and cut feature.

These gorgeous butterfly stickers are easy to make with images in Cricut Design Space and high quality sticker paper from A-Sub or Koala Paper.

Make stickers as a gift for young kids, start a small business or rekindle the love of stickers from your childhood and make sticker books!

These butterfly patterns are available in Cricut Design Space, check out my post for the link!

How to Make Gallery Glass Art for Home Decor DIY

Learn how to make faux stained glass wall art using Gallery Glass paints.

This fun technique is an easy craft that will give you the look of real stained glass without the expense and the tedious amount of grinding, soldering and polishing.

Glass art has such timeless elegance, it's no wonder that stained glass is trending with the new young artist generation!

Let's get started on the vibrant colors of gallery glass, a little acrylic paint and glittery wall art!

How to Make Layered Butterfly DIY with Cricut Venture

Learn how to cut out a big, beautiful layered butterfly using the Cricut Venture for this fun backdrop craft.

In just a few hours, you can make giant (nearly 2 foot wide) 5 layer butterflies and some other sizes for variety.

This wall backdrop is a great way to decorate for a birthday party background, photo op, nursery or bedroom decor and more!

Let's get started--butterfly templates available in Cricut Design Space!

How to Make Disco Ball Butterfly (Mirror Sticker DIY)

Learn how to make a disco ball butterfly in no time at all, using supplies from Dollar Tree!

This craft project can be made with a variety of bases, but this butterfly body is so cute!

Get a galvanized butterfly (or any of the other options) and some sticker backed mirror tiles and make this little disco ball butterfly the perfect addition to your home decor.

It's so easy to disco-ify anything, let's get started!

How to Make Gallery Glass Suncatcher DIY with Stained Glass Pattern Freebies!

Make gorgeous Gallery Glass suncatchers with these free patterns, create a beautiful Butterfly, a fabulous Luna Moth and a busy Bumble Bee!

This craft is made so easy by using Plaid Leading Sheets and Cricut!

I designed these 3 intricate creative designs that can be cut easily with Cricut so the hard work of hand leading is done for you, free printable templates at the full tutorial!

How to Make Glass Mosaic Art: Easy Ideas for Beginners

Learn how to make glass mosaic art easily at any skill level, a great craft for big kids and even middle school aged kids.

This fun and colorful craft is an easy DIY for beginners--perfect for Spring decor and National Craft Month!

Make brightly colored glass mosaic butterflies in an afternoon, these would be fantastic as a butterfly magnet!

Martha Stewart Paint: Butterfly Specimen Wall Art DIY

Learn how to make butterfly specimen art using paint and stencils for a beautiful DIY Spring wall display.

Make this gorgeous home decor using the new Martha Stewart line at Plaid Crafts.

Martha Stewart's creamy paints are the perfect way for blending, adding texture and making a high quality art piece in an afternoon.

How to Make Corelle Plate Necklace Jewelry DIY!

Learn how to transform vintage, chipped or cracked plates and dishes into wearable jewelry, necklace pendants and more.

Did you have Corelle Butterfly Gold plates? They launched in 1970 and I think everyone I knew growing up had them. This was our family plate pattern...I'm sure there's some independent work out there categorizing Corelle family patterns, lol.

Make nostalgic jewelry with old dinner plates using lead-free solder, great for handmade gifts for Mother's day too!

How to Make Folded Butterfly Bookmark DIY with Tombow

Learn how to make a folded butterfly, heart or flower book mark using a few simple supplies including white paper and colored pencils.

Attention book lovers, make the perfect bookmark for keeping track of your page as well as looking beautiful for Spring!

Draw your own wing patterns or find a free template online for the perfect fluttering bookmark!

3D Butterflies with xTool M1 Laser Cutter

Here's the perfect craft to absolutely WOW your guests and it only takes a few minutes!

If you don't have a laser cutting machine, it's a great addition to any arts & music classroom or home.

See how easy and fast it is to make these darling dimensional butterflies with basswood and the xTool.

Gorgeous on the festive holiday table, as stunning Christmas tree decorations/ornaments or just because.

How to Make Monarch Butterfly Wings with xTool M1

Make the perfect Halloween costume butterfly wings using things on their way to the trash.

As a simple everyday mom, I love upcycling, reusing and thrifting for the perfect costumes.

These monarch butterfly wings were easy to make, so much fun, took less than one hour, they look amazing and they were FREE--a great craft for kids of all ages to help with!

How to Make Butterfly Popup Cards!

Make the cutest cards for quick gifts, thank you notes or just because cards! These butterfly pop-up cards are easy to make and take less than 5 minutes from start to finish. 

Let's make 4 butterfly pop-up cards with just 4 supplies and 5 spare minutes!

 
This paper craft can be made with construction paper or cardstock!

At the end of this post, I'm sharing a fun childhood memory of the time I almost had a caterpillar transform into a butterfly! 😂​😂​😂​ No caterpillar crafts yet!

Faux Butterfly Wing Earrings with Resin

Butterfly wings are super gorgeous.  

Stunning earring craft projects like this are easy to make and require no real butterfly wings to create them.  

Make a pair of faux Monarch wings earrings for the perfect accessory and a beautiful way to enjoy a butterfly without harming one.

Butterfly Duct Tape Hairbow!

Learn how to make a duct tape butterfly hair clip for the perfect Springtime accessory!

This great craft just takes a few minutes and a couple supplies to make. 

A little duct tape is all I used, but you could make them with the end of the pipe cleaner for the antennae too!

Let's get started!

BONUS: 2 DRAGONFLY CRAFTS!

How to Make Maple Seed Dragonfly (Nature DIY Craft)

Learn how to make the cutest little DIY Maple Seed Dragonflies with a few objects found in nature.

This fun craft project is perfect for a school or youth activity group, Summer camp craft, or sweet handmade gift, great for all ages, and perfect for Earth day crafting too.

Just a few natural materials and you've got the sweetest little dragonfly decoration.

How to Make a Beaded Dragonfly Whisk DIY (Easy Craft)

Learn how to make a beaded dragonfly from a recycled kitchen whisk!

This fun upcycled craft is easy for a crafty mind to imagine and give new life to an old item.

This cute dragonfly can be made in about 30 minutes and then decorating and drying time.

Let's get started!

Plus, check out my YouTube video painting a Dragonfly on a Sunflower!

This loose acrylic painting took me about 2 hours, but I've sped it up to just 3 minutes to see the process in time lapse.

I painted this for a friend who loves dragonflies and sunflowers.

But wait--here's a LITTLE Bonus!

Here's a few bug crafts too!

Specimens in Clear Casting Resin: Cicadas and Bees

Have you heard or even seen a cicada?  I grew up in Utah and never even heard of one my whole life.  We moved to North Carolina in 2012 and it was our first experience with cicadas.  

We went on a family walk at Cape Fear Trail.  The forests and woods were echoing with the sounds of blaring alarms.  We had no idea what was making the sound...until we asked a local.  

Cicadas!  They come out and screech for about a week or two.  Amazing gigantic creatures.   The next year we lived in Alabama...my son and husband went camping and they said the cicadas kept them awake all night.  They are loud all chirping together in a eerie melody.

Beetles in Resin

To make this craft, you need to acquire some bugs.

We found this big brown beetle and the iridescent dung beetle in our swimming pool.

I found tons of black sugarcane beetles dead...zapped by our bug zapper...all over the back patio.

That's it!

Hope you enjoyed this round up post filled with a selection of butterfly crafts, dragonflies and a few bugs!

Butterfly crafts aren't just for preschoolers reading the very hungry caterpillar and making a handprint butterfly craft, they are sophisticated and high end crafts for adults too!

Make a fun Butterfly themed gift basket for a friend, decorate your home or just enjoy a good book and hold it's place with a fluttering butterfly bookmark.

Which craft is your favorite!?

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