Felt Butterfly Life Cycle Craft

Craft a Butterfly Life Cycle with Felt

If you’re teaching your kids or class about the butterfly life cycle, this life cycle craft is a terrific hands-on way to teach them all about it!

Not only is this felt butterfly a fun craft but it helps your students develop fine motor skills and gives them sewing practice while they’re learning about the butterfly life cycle.

If you’re looking for ways to keep your kids learning, this craft is a terrific idea!

List of Supplies for Butterfly Life Cycle Craft

Felt fabrics
Needle
Matching Thread
Chalk or pen for tracing patterns
Scissors
Felt Butterfly Life Cycle Craft

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Instructions for the Felt Butterfly Life Cycle

Step 1

Print and cut out the template patterns. The template includes patterns for arrows, a butterfly, a cocoon, a twig, leaves, eggs, and a caterpillar. Trace the patterns on the selected felt and cut out the traced patterns using scissors.

Step 2

Take the big leaf cutout and place the egg cutouts on it. Prepare a needle with white thread.

Step 3

Take the butterfly cutouts. Arrange the teardrop cutouts on the wings and place the body base vertically along the middle of the wing.

Step 4

Place the head cutout on the front side of the body base cutout. Slightly overlap the head cutout with the body base cutout.

Step 5

Prepare a round felt base for the craft. Place the eggs arranged on a leaf pattern on the right side of the round base. Stitch the egg cutouts to the felt leaf and the base with cross-stitches

Step 6

Now, place the felt butterfly pattern on the top side (12 o’clock) of the round base.

Step 7

Use matching threads to stitch the butterfly with the base cutout.

Step 8

Next, we will place the cocoon on the left side of the base. Place the twig with a leaf at its front end and a cocoon at its bottom side.

Step 9

Use needle and thread to stitch the twig, leaf, and cocoon to the base nicely. Place the caterpillar on the bottom side (6 o’clock) of the base.

Step 10

Stitch the caterpillar to the base neatly around the border. Place an arrow cutout between the stitched items. The arrows should be pointing clockwise.