Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly: An Uber Cute Butterfly Craft

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Want to make a toilet paper roll butterfly craft? We’ve got such a cute one for you today. It includes a free template to make this craft super easy.

It’s springtime. And we’ve been whipping up tons of fun kids spring crafts along with tons of other fun and easy crafts for kids.

We’ve come up with tons of fun bug crafts and this butterfly craft may be one of the cutest ones so far!

And since we love us some toilet paper roll crafts, we decided a toilet paper roll butterfly should be on the agenda,

Supplies & Materials

For this butterfly craft, you’ll need a few basic supplies and materials.

Our Free Butterfly Wings Template: You can grab the butterfly wing template at the end of this post.

Toilet paper roll: We always save our toilet paper rolls since I know we’ll use them for fun craft time. But you can easily use any kind of paper roll.

Colored craft paper: Construction paper will work too. We used the colors pink, red, orange and peach. But you can get creative and use any color combo you’d like.

Googly Eyes: We added fun googly eyes to ours, but you can also use printable googly eyes instead.

Pipe Cleaner: For the butterfly’s antenna

You’ll also need basic supplies like

• Ruler
• Scissors
• Glue
• Black Marker

How to Make a Butterfly from a Toilet Paper Roll

Start by printing out the butterfly template.

Cut out all the pieces from the template. Then use these pieces as stencils to trace the shapes onto the different pieces of colored paper using a pencil.

Or you can simply color the pieces of the template in using crayons or markers.

Next, start putting the wings together by gluing the small hearts onto the butterfly wings like shown below.

Next, cut out a piece of paper tall enough and wide enough to completely cover the toilet paper roll. This will be the butterfly’s body.

Then glue the big heart on to the bottom center of the paper. The heart will be the butterfly’s tummy.

Next, put glue around the edges of the back of the rectangle and wrap it around your toilet paper tube, making sure it’s secure.

Next, grab the butterfly wings and place a strip of glue or double-sided tape down the center.

Then grab your pipe cleaner and cut it in half. Cur up one side of each pipe cleaner half really tight to create two curled-up antenna pieces.

Attach the wings and antenna to your butterfly body.

Next, add eyes to your butterfly. We used real googly eyes, but you can use printable googly eyes as well. Or just draw them on!

Finally, draw on a cute little mouth and cheeks to your butterfly’s face.

Isn’t it just the cutest!!

Since our little butterfly is also covered in hearts, this would be a great valentines day craft as well.

Grab the Butterfly Template

To grab the butterfly wing template, put your email in the box below. We’ll send it straight to your inbox, along with other awesome free printables.

This is for personal or classroom use only, not for commercial use. Thank you!