Free Paper Butterfly Templates

Paper Butterfly Template: What Is It?

A Paper Butterfly refers to a drawing of an insect with colorful wings made out of paper or cardstock.

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  • Butterfly Template.

Whether you are looking for one-of-a-kind home decor, embellishing the classroom with your students, or spending quality time with your own kids while you are enjoying art and craft activities, this kind of template will entertain you - butterflies are among the most colorful representatives of the insect world which is why it is fun to draw and color them. Use a paper template to stimulate your own creativity and encourage teamwork if you are working on a butterfly with your child.

For a full list of Butterfly templates please check out our library below.

How to Make a Paper Butterfly?

Here are some tips that will help you personalize Paper Butterfly templates:

  1. Draw a butterfly - the number of details is up to you ; make sure it has a head, thorax, abdomen, and wings. Remember that it is important to comply with symmetry - the left and the right parts of the butterfly are supposed to be identical. You can experiment with the size of the wings and their shape - use a ruler to measure the distance between the edges of the wings and the rest of the drawing and once you are satisfied, cut out the butterfly and color it with paint and crayons.

  2. Consider making a butterfly with detachable wings . It is not immediately obvious but a butterfly has four wings - there are two forewings and two hindwings. If you are creating a set of butterflies of similar shapes, you can experiment with color by working on a template with interchangeable wings. The drawing you initially make can depict a lifelike butterfly after which you cut on the lines that separate the wings from the thorax. The elements can be reattached with glue or string - make small holes in the wings and the thorax to tie the parts together when you assemble the template.

  3. While you can add more color to the DIY butterfly you are making, it would be fun to take a blank Butterfly Template and customize it only with the help of scissors - the way people create symmetrical snowflakes . Print out a small butterfly and fold it in different places making small cuts. You may create many identical butterflies or make every item unique by cutting out squares, triangles, and zig-zags on the wings of the butterfly.

  4. Work on a greeting card in the shape of a butterfly . A Paper Butterfly template will suit you perfectly if the item can be folded as a traditional paper card. Cut a medium-sized butterfly out of paper with a pattern on one side and leave the other side blank to write your congratulations - when the card is open, it will look just like a butterfly; alternatively, you may put a colorful Paper Butterfly inside a traditional rectangular card so that the person sees a butterfly spreading its wings when the card is open.


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