How to Make an Easy Butterfly Coffee Filter Craft for Kids

How to Make an easy Butterfly Coffee Filter Craft for Kids

You can use almost anything around the house for a craft. We make a butterfly coffee filter craft with your kids.

Coffee Filter

We don’t drink coffee in our house, but I will buy some coffee filters to make a good craft. They are super cheap and easily accessible. They are definitely something you can keep close in your craft box.

I definitely recommend making these in an area that can get messy. The kids tend to go a little crazy with the water, and it could make a little mess. We just put cardboard under our project, and it worked great. This could also make a fun outdoor activity.

This was a last minute, let’s throw this together and see if we have all the supplies, and we did! Which is why I recommend having a craft box, so you don’t have to go to the store every time you want to do a craft.

Here’s how we did it.

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Butterfly Coffee Filter Craft

Supplies:

Coffee Filters
Markers (preferably the washable kind, in case they get everywhere)
Pipe Cleaners
Clothes Pin
Water
Sharpie
Eye dropper or a syringe, if you don’t have either, you can get away with using your hands

Some type of mat or cardboard would be useful to put down first because it can get messy.

Instructions:

First color your coffee filter with the markers. Any design you wish!

Next, use the eye dropper or syringe to drip drops of water onto your coffee filter. You want the marker to bleed, but be careful because it really doesn’t take that much water, it absorbs really fast. If you do too much, it could rip. If you don’t have an eye dropper or syringe, you can just sprinkle water on it with your hand.

Now you have to wait for them to completely dry. You want it to be so dry that you could crumble it in your hand it won’t break. We cheated and used the oven to help speed up the drying process. Just set the oven to warm and put them on a cookie sheet for about 7 minutes.

Once they are dry, you want to pinch the two of the opposite sides together so that it is bunched in just the middle.

Take your pipe cleaner and wrap the center of the pipe cleaner around the center of the bunch. You want the ends of the pipe cleaner to stick up like antennas.

Lastly, take your clothes pin and draw a face on one side, then clip it to the center of your bunch.