Butterfly Art Project
Ready for a butterfly art project for elementary art that’ll dazzle your admins? Imagine these painted spring butterflies alongside a writing prompt on display. The step by step drawing guide, PowerPoint, butterfly template, and video demonstration makes perfect emergency art sub plans.
That’s right. Sit back while I teach your students how to play the roll a dice game and design this butterfly art project myself! Kids can also choose patterns using the ‘you pick’ worksheet or digital spinners—whatever works best for you!
Plus, it’ll help cash-strapped teachers like you plan art projects for the first day of spring using only markers. Yes, you can watercolor paint with markers! Incorporating creative spring art activities like this butterfly project helps. Finally keep all kids engaged!
What’s Included in My Butterfly Art Activity
I’ve designed 3 different ways for students to attempt this butterfly art project. All will motivate kids to create! Choose which way works best for your classes:
- Roll a dice game to add randomness to your student’s artwork
- “You Pick” art worksheet for kids to choose their own patterns
- Digital spinner wheels, so kids can randomly pick patterns and you can integrate technology
- Printable dice template in case you have no dice
- Step-by-step picture directions to guide students through the art process
- Butterfly template which kids can draw directly on it or transfer it to heavy drawing paper
- Drawing practice worksheet, so kids can practice drawing patterns
- 2 Writing prompts, so you can tie this drawing project to literacy
- 2 Butterfly Coloring pages that you can use for absent students or hand out as a classroom prize
- Helpful Tips & Tricks handout with teacher directions to help guide the lesson
- Step by Step Video Tutorial, with optional captions
How to Use My Butterfly Art Project for Elementary
The best part about my butterfly craft is that it’s flexible and can be used in many ways throughout your classroom. It’s great for maternity or emergency art sub plans, early finisher activities, indoor recess, or even an after-school art club.
You Will Receive
- 1 Non-Editable Printable PDF (Butterfly Art Project)
- 1 Non-Editable PowerPoint
- 1 Demonstration Video
- 5 Digital Spinner Videos (downloadable, and links to them on Google Slides and YouTube)
- Paperless Google Drive Digital Resource
Why You’ll Love It
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I bought this resource to use in order to make a spring board. It turned out great. The designs my students chose and the colors ended up being stunning. Can’t wait to use again.
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I love these activities so much! They are perfect for sub plans and my students always enjoy doing the writing and the craft. Thank you!
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What a fun art project to do with the students! They had so much fun with it! I love that there is the extra writing piece added to it! The students work looks amazing on the bulletin board! Thank you for making this resource!
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Loved this! I used this last spring and my students really enjoyed it.
This turned out beautiful. Students loved creating the butterfly and writing a Haiku poem on the back. They looked great “flying” in our classroom!
Great activity very easy to prepare for and my students enjoyed the helpful drawing examples.
My students loved this art activity. It was fantastic and easy to plan and prepare. I was also able to leave it for a sub which was even better. My students were happy to create butterflies over and over again.
This is so great; I can’t tell you how much my students enjoyed using it. Our classroom looked so festive and fun for spring:)