Easy Butterfly Paper Craft Tutorial You CAN Do!
This butterfly paper craft is so cute. Easy, doable, graceful paper twist crafts to the rescue! Without a lot of preparation, you can make one of the best gifts of your life. No kidding. Flower Twisting Craft skills will be needed! But don’t you fret – I will give you a step-by-step instructions with pictures that are self-explanatory and are very helpful.
This craft is for beginners as well as for anybody who would like to make this accordion paper butterfly a part of a bigger project: a card, a festive collage, picture frame decor or even a home decoration item.
Being a DIY doesn’t mean cheap looking. You have the power to use color paper and embellishments like sequence, threads and fabric to take your butterfly paper craft to a new level.
If you are short for time to get a gift – go after this gorgeous paper butterfly craft to make someone’s day!
Paper Butterfly As A Stand-Alone Craft
One of the top reasons I love this project is that you need the minimum of materials: paper. You can make this elegant butterfly out of any scraps of paper you have lying around. I’ve got these pre-cut small paper squares in many colors. So, I used them for my paper butterflies.
Paper Butterfly Incorporated into A Card Design
I love making my own gift cards, thank-you cards, birthday cards. I love decorating my own gifts. Usually, I have a few small colored paper butterflies waiting for my in my supplies box. I attach them to the self-made cards and even those from the store where it is appropriate.
You can also embellish a gift tag for your gift box or gift bag. Little details like this one truly make a difference in the emotions a receiver of the gift will experience. Joy and happiness will become part of the fabric the memories are made of.
HOW To Make Easy Butterfly Paper Craft
This cool paper butterfly can easily become your craft for relaxation. Every time I make a new mariposa out of paper scraps, I find a new way to improve and decorate it.
You won’t need any butterfly template, just a square piece of paper and simple step by step instructions.
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Choose Color Paper for Your Butterfly Craft – STEP 1
Any square piece of paper will do! Even newspaper! Depending on the size of your project, choose the paper size. Just make sure it is a square, as it is much easier to balance the proportions of the butterfly’s wings.
Fold Paper in Half – STEP 2
Cut Into 2 Halves by the Crease Line – STEP 3
Take 1st Half – Fold Corners Into the Center On One End – STEP 4
Repeat the Folding from the Other End – STEP 5
Turn the Paper Color Up – STEP 6
Start Folding Back-&-Forth Upper and Lower Parts from the Middle Crease – STEP 7
The Final Result Looks Like This
Pinch the Folded Paper in the Middle – STEP 8
As a result of pinching at the middle, you will get cutely shaped butterfly upper wings.
Fold the Wings Up & Set Them Aside – STEP 9
Take the 2nd Half of the Paper – STEP 10
Finally, begin folding the second part of the paper square back-and-forth like an accordion.
Bend the Folded 2nd Paper in the Middle – STEP 11
Bring Upper & Low Butterfly Wings Together – STEP 12
Use any twine or thread to secure both parts of the butterfly wings together in the middle, where both papers were bent. As a result of using different color thread, you will add a focus point to your butterfly DIY.
Voila, Your Butterfly Is Ready to Spread Her Wings
After you use a thread to bring the wings together, leave both ends of your thread long enough to serve as butterfly’s antennae. Additionally, you could put some glue to the butterfly’s antennae to make them stand on end.
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Wow.. Super cutiee DIY. I like to do such things. I loved this post really
Thank you, Bindu,
I usually take a few minutes every day to create something, like this butterfly. I have a box with my crafty things which I pull out when I need to make a card or create a uniquely wrapped present. Lots of different things I can find there!
I need to show this to my 12 year old niece. She would like this during this quarantine time!
Kiwi,
This is one of my favorite crafts I make when I take a few minutes to relax and enjoy crafting.
So easy, affordable, and colorful.
What a simple but beautiful craft! I have to try this in the classroom!
It is simple and versatile.
Instead of a drill and tiny nails, you can easily use glue and sharp scissors.
Enjoy!
This tutorial is so easy and I love the vibrant colors that these Butterflies have!
Aww these are cute. Thank you for your instructions.
These are so cute and fun to make! I will have to try and make them with my kids.
I have a nephew who is so into these things. I’ll send this link to him. He’ll definitely enjoy it.
What a perfect SPRING TIME craft!!
What a fun crafting idea! Making one right now.
Looks like a fun and easy craft ideas for the kids to make.
An easy way to make some new spring craft with kids. My kid will be happy to make them!
I remember the running behind the Butterflies, and still the butterfly is weakness because of its natural and colors friendship with flowers. I love your skill and loves your butterflies.
This is a great craft for kids!
My kids are going to LOVE doing this craft! 🙂 Especially since we have all of these supplies!
These are so pretty. I need to make some to hang up in my grandbaby’s room as it is butterfly themed
This would be such a great spring project for my first grade classroom.
I love this craft I pinned it to my Pinterest
I always believed origami was complicated but this seems easy
What a cute idea. My kids would love to make these.
This looks like it will be easy enough for my granddaughters to do.
These are super cute and easy to make.
My grandmother will enjoy this. She will make one for every child that goes to her Sunday school class.
I love butterflies and these make great decorations.
These are really cute. Love butterflies!
these are so cute! Great for spring.
I am going to have my students create these in May… thanks for the easy instructions.
My girls would have fun making these. This would be a perfect rainy day activity.
Rebecca,
This is one of my favorite crafts for my own self. I always do some paper folding when I have a few minutes of downtime. It really helps me to take my mind off and relax.
ENJOY IT!
My niece loves butterflies!! This would be a great craft to make with her!
I love these little butterflies. I can put them on cards, gifts and so many things. I can’t wait to share with my Granddaughter, she going to love this craft. Thank you so much for sharing.
My mother wants to make these out of some left over wrapping paper! These could be a great way to downsize and reuse some kids artwork or writing!
My daughter loves making paper crafts. This diy is right up her alley and easy enough.
This is such an easy and cute craft. These would be adorable to use on gifts!
I showed this to my mom today. She loves it as well. My grandma makes stuff like this alot with my daughter.
What a sweet craft! Butterflies are one of my favorite things to share. This looks so easy and my girls would enjoy it!
(Paper Butterfly As A Stand-Alone Craft) Wow! These do look very nice to learn how to make for decorating gifts for my upcoming three girlfriends birthdays. They are really pretty.
I am going to make a ton of colorful butterflys and put them on a mobile to hang and float!
I absolutely love butterflies they are one of my favorite things I screenshot this whole tutorial! I want to make lots of these for homemade cards and gifts and for my son’s lunch! Thank you so much for the lesson!
These butterflys would be cute to make a paper bouquet from as well! What a cute, easy craft for all!
What a cute and eat craft idea! My kids would love to do this
I love butterflies and this is crazy simple! I love it! It would be a beautiful embellishment on cards.
These are so cute. So many ways in which I could use these. Great and fun craft idea. Thank you so much for sharing
I just love butterflies. This is such a great craft for me to do with my grandchildren this summer. Great idea. Thank you for sharing
These are so cute. Such a fun activity to do with my grandchildren. I love butterflies. Thank you so much for sharing this
i love this! will use this for room decorations!
These paper butterflys look so easy to make! I love that you can re-use papers from home and decorate as well!
Those are lovely. Very good instructions.
I love this Butterfly Paper Craft Tutorial. My daughter would have so much fun making these as she loves doing crafts.
That is such a cool craft. I will definitely be trying it for my next holiday.
What a cute craft! I love how you could easily personalize it with different types and sizes of paper-think how pretty a floral print would be!
What a great idea this is. I can think of so many things to decorate these with and I know everyone would love these.
cute butterflys
simple and easy to do craft
This looks so easy to make. The butterflies are cute and not as complicated as Origami.
This is a really cute craft idea!
Karley,
This craft is really cool for the brain as well! As we age, we partially lose the connection between our nerve endings at the tips of our fingers. To keep this connection alive and thriving, do things like sewing and crafting that involves the tips of the fingers. The more you do it, the better off the brain and nerve functions stay coordinated.
This craft looks so useful! That’s a big problem with some crafts. What to do with them when they are complete.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful idea. My niece would enjoy doing this.
These are so cute! I can do them with my niece!
These are so pretty!!
These paper butterflies are so cute! My daughter loves stuff like this, I can’t wait to show her! I am sure she will have a whole rainbow of butterflies in no time! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
These are too cute! I would love to make these with my nieces, it would be a lot of fun.
These are super cute!
That looks easy enough- even for ME! I bet they’d make a pretty mobile for a baby to look at…
These are cute! I would like to make these.
These butterflies are really cute and would be fun to make.