DIY 3D Butterfly Wall Art with FREE Templates

Hello! Are you all enjoying the early days of Spring? The early flowers are bright and lovely, veggie gardens are being cleaned up and planned, and the tree in our front yard is blooming its pretty white flowers this week. 

I am shaking the Winter chill from my bones and am loving this weather, both rain or sun!

I will be having a brunch on Easter Sunday and decided to make a pretty display for the wall in my dining room. It is a simple, beautiful way to decorate for Spring and the upcoming holidays!

The templates (found below) can be printed directly onto card stock or printed once, folded, and used as a template to trace onto card stock of your choice.  

I used card stock in pastel colors. Depending on how many you want to create, printing them directly onto card stock may be a quicker way to mass produce your butterflies.

Fold the printed butterflies in half. I hand drew the butterflies so the dotted line may not be exact but if you fold the page in half, the butterflies will still cut out perfectly. 

After cutting out as many as you wish, (we had 60 butterflies, big and small), put a bit of double-sided tape on the body part of the butterfly and attach it to the wall for display. 

Our girls helped me tape all the butterflies in a diagonal pattern flying upwards. 

Then, we folded each wing inward to make a crease along the body line of the butterfly. This creates the 3D effect! It is similar to the Bat Wall we created for Halloween!

Here are the templates for both the big and tiny butterflies. The downloaded templates will be plain to conserve on ink.  

Make sure your print settings are "scale to fit page" so that they print at the correct sizes.

DOWNLOAD HERE

DOWNLOAD HERE

  

Please let me know if you create a 3D butterfly wall of your own. I would love to see them all! 

Other ideas for these templates: 

• Decorate the classroom! Students can write their wishes for Spring on the wings and tape them to the walls to share. Younger students can decorate with their names or draw patterns on the wings.

• Print the templates to use as unique gift tags for Spring birthday parties and events! 

• Print and write names on your butterflies as place settings for Spring celebrations!

• Make a wish jar full of tiny butterflies with Spring activities on them. For example: Fly a kite, Go ride your bike, Draw a picture of a beautiful garden, Take a family walk around the neighborhood. Have your children pull an activity to do each beautiful Spring Day! 

•  Use as a photo backdrop for cards, invitations and more!

 

Happy Decorating!

Balancing Act

This week has been a bit overwhelming. The girls last day of school was Monday and with them came a flurry of papers and schoolwork from the year, handfuls of broken pencils with no erasers, schoolbags and lunch boxes to be cleaned and put away, and even next years supply lists! Already!? *Sigh*

When clutter starts to pile up, my mind slowly starts shutting down. I feel swamped!

Last night, I gathered together the paper pile and started scanning everything to my computer. Art work, tests, stories they wrote, report cards, thank you notes from teachers and friends... all the things I wanted to keep for them as reminders of their school year were scanned and saved to files.

I made two folders labeled Madelyn and Lana and sorted accordingly. Then, I took that monstrous pile of paper and hurled it into the recycling bin. Ahh, better.

Our Family Father's Day weekend trip to the shore has been canceled because both days are booked for the girls' dance recitals! I'm sure Daddy couldn't think of any better way to spend his Father's Day then to watch his daughters on stage, full of glittery sparkles and smiles! Fun fun fun!

So, I have been furiously tweaking their costumes to make sure we are prepared for their big shows! All of this with two babies attached to either leg, Sophia shrieking "You help me!?" for a variety of reasons, and the two oldest succumbing to "boredom" 1 hour and 45 minutes in.

It has certainly been a hectic week! I hope to organize a bit more and get into the rhythm of summer vacation sooner rather than later.



*Wishing you all the happiest of weekends! Go hide that "Have to" list until Monday and spend it on a whole bunch of "Want to's"

Finger Painting

We had a big finger painting session after dinner tonight! The girls were very timid artists at first. They used cute little finger brushes, sponges and foam stamps. They drew pretty houses and delicately dipped to spell out their names.









It wasn't long before all their cautions were thrown into the windy night, however. The roller brush came barreling in, colors got mixed, accusations of paint hoarding were thrown around, washcloths turned black with mistakes, and Mom almost lost her patience. Almost.





Casualties included the dining room table, 4 of the 8 chair covers, the sliding glass door handle, both the kitchen AND the bathroom sink, one unsuspecting wall and every last ounce of what Sophia was wearing. Sigh. I suppose they all needed a good cleaning anyway.

Really..what good is a finger painting session if you can’t get your hands a little messy?