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Foam Butterfly Magnets

Posted by singlemom

August 18, 2008 |

I hope to soon be able to post photographs of the crafts that we are doing here. Right now I am drawing on past projects that we had made as gifts for people, and I regret that I do not have photographs.

Foam butterfly magnets are easy to make if your child can draw butterflies, or if you can. These are good to make on a rainy afternoon.

Materials:

foam sheets: pinks, purples, blues and whatever other color your child likes.

magnet dots or strips (for strips, you will have to cut them to size.)

hot glue gun, glue

markers

scissors

1. Draw, or have your child draw, butterflies on foam sheets.

2. Have them color their butterflies.

3. Cut, or have your child cut, out the butterflies.

4. Parents, or older children, then glue the magnets to the backs of the butterflies.

5. Allow to dry.

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Once the butterflies are dry, your child can hang them on the refrigerator, or they can be used as gifts.


Comments

2 Comments so far

  1. Elizabeth on August 19, 2008 11:56 am

    Easy, affordable and less messy! Nice idea.

  2. singlemom on August 19, 2008 6:37 pm

    Thank you. Sometimes less messy is good, though we always did like to get our hands dirty here.

    This one is easy to pull off with my daycare children.

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