Handprint Butterflies

Ella does little art projects at her speech appointments. And one week, the therapist traced her hands and made a butterfly. Then they glued her speech words on it. I thought that was such a neat and simple project! So we attempted it at home.

All you need is construction paper, scissors, glue stick, a pipe cleaner for the antenna and anything (feathers, stickers, rhinestones) to adorn them. Trace both hands twice and cut them out. Cut out a body shape and head. Glue them all together and let the child decorate however they want. When they are finished, fold the pipecleaner in half and then curl the ends. Tape it to the back of the butterfly.



My friend Amber took hers a step further and traced her kids feet to make the body which I thought was a really cute idea. You can see super cute Bryce and Brianna's here.


The girls really got into this project. We made a butterfly out of each family member's hands. Lily decorated my butterfly as well as her own and Ella decorated hers and Andrews. Then Ella wanted to make a sun and Lily wanted to make a cloud. Lily especially liked that she put feathers on the cloud to make it fluffy. They both were really proud of the whole thing. We displayed them on the wall to the right of our deck door.

In order from top to bottom: mine, Lily's, Andrew's, Ella's.