Butterfly Suncatcher Craft (Free Template!)

Create a beautiful butterfly suncatcher for a fun spring craft for preschoolers! This butterfly suncatcher uses our free butterfly template and is an easy spring craft kids will love to make and hang on all the windows of your house 🙂

butterfly suncatcher held up in front of white curtains

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This suncatcher craft takes just a few simple craft supplies and is a fun way to make homemade spring decorations. You could hang your butterfly suncatchers next to these flower suncatchers for a bright and colorful window display!

This butterfly craft also pairs well with these butterfly books for kids for a full butterfly unit! National Geographic has an awesome resource for finding some fun facts about the butterfly life cycle.

If you are looking for some other fun crafts to pair with this activity you will love these insect seek and find coloring pages and this leaf spray painting art!

Supplies

Construction paper
Colored tissue paper
Clear contact paper
Butterfly template – Fill out the purple form at the bottom of this post for the free printable template!
Scissors or exacto knife

construction paper, scissors, butterfly template, tissue paper squares and contact paper sitting on a white countertop.

Why We Love This Craft

Encourages creativity and pattern making
Introduces symmetry in a fun way
Builds fine motor skills

How to Make a Butterfly Suncatcher

First print out the butterfly template linked towards the bottom of this post.

Cut out the butterfly shape and trace the outline on a piece of colored construction paper. Cut out the inside of the butterfly shape with an exacto knife, we recommend an adult do this step.

butterfly template cut out and traced on purple construction paper with a pencil and exacto knife sitting on top

Add a piece of contact paper to the construction paper.

Cut up small squares of tissue paper, if this is too difficult for your child you could have them rip the tissue paper instead.

butterfly center cut out and filled in with tissue paper squares and covered with contact paper on both sides held up in front of a curtain

Let your child fill the wings with tissue paper. Encourage symmetry if age-appropriate.

If desired you can add another piece of contact paper on the back of the butterfly to secure the tissue paper squares.

Finally, cut out the outline of the butterfly and hang on a window and enjoy!

finished butterfly suncatcher and flower suncatcher hanging on a sunny window

Your Free Printable Butterfly Suncatcher Template

After you fill out the form above you will be subscribed to our newsletter and the free butterfly template will be sent to your inbox. If you don’t see it in your inbox please be sure to check your junk and spam folders! There will be a link within the email where you can find the PDF and print as you would like. This free template is for classroom use and personal use only.

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