Madam Butterfly

I finally gave in and bought The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle for Sophie. After reading it to Sophie, I thought it would be good to create a caterpillar or a butterfly for our craft today. But, I do not really know how to make a caterpillar and the board book came with a caterpillar plush toy. So... A butterfly it shall be!

While Sophie was napping, I cut out the butterfly's body from a piece of foam. Then I gathered all the materials and let Sophie apply glitter glue on the butterfly's body. When everything was dry, I stuck the pom poms, plastic eyes and pipe cleaner on it using super glue.

Then the finished butterfly's body was put aside to dry completely. Meanwhile, Sophie did hand prints for the wings. For today's craft, I decided to print my own hands as well... for the upper set of wings. I just let Sophie print on a few pieces of paper because I did not know how they would turn out. Well, Sophie had a "taste" of how messy hand printing could be... Sigh!

Fortunately, there were a few good hand prints for me to work on. It would have taken me a fraction of the time she took to make hand prints... And mine were exactly how I wanted them too... minus the mess on everywhere else!

Using a green marker, I outlined each "chosen" hand print and cut all of them out. By now, the glitter glue had dried pretty good and I gathered all the pieces I need for the butterfly.

The rest was simple enough. But Sophie was no longer in the mood for craft work (Handy Manny was on...) so I had to finish it myself.

End Product - Butterfly

Madam Butterfly...

What happened to the leftover hand prints? I used them to make flowers... This time, the hand prints were done by her and I used pipe cleaners for stalks.