Make pretty butterflies with colorful cupcake liners, pipe cleaners and some fun stuff lying around your home. Below are the steps courtesy of firstpalette.com.
Materials required are: Cupcake liners, Pipe cleaners, White glue, Wiggle eyes (optional), Buttons and beads (optional)
Carefully spread open and flatten each cupcake liner. Fold up ½ inch or 1¼ cm from the bottom edge of the cupcake liner. This first fold defines the size of the succeeding folds. Flip the cupcake liner over. Fold up ½ inch or 1¼ cm again from the bottom. The edges of the second fold should line up nicely with the first. Continue until you’ve folded the entire cupcake liner.
Similarly fold the second cupcake liner. Fold each cupcake liner in half so that you create a middle crease. Apply glue on the middle crease of one cupcake liner. Put the two cupcake liners together, aligning them at the middle crease and at the edges.
You will need a pipe cleaner to hold the wings together and make the butterfly’s antennae as well. Fold the pipe cleaner in half. Twist the ends of the pipe cleaner around the cupcake liners’ middle crease.
Carefully open the cupcake liner folds on one side of the pipe cleaner. Repeat on the opposite side to complete the butterfly’s two pairs of wings.
Create the antennae. Decorate butterfly by gluing a button, a foam shape or a plastic gem at the center of the butterfly.
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