Coffee Filter Butterfly

The items that you will need for this project include the following:

• 1 coffee filter (will need to be split so that it lays flat)
• 2 wiggle eyes
• tongue depresser or popsicle stick
• fuzzy wire or straw
• watercolors
• paint brush
• water to dip your paintbrush in to remove the watercolor

First you will need to split/unseel the coffee filter so that it is laying flat on the table. Next let your child(ren) decorate the coffee filter with the watercolors. After the coffee filter dries, place glue on the tongue depresser/popsicle stick and place your butterfly wings on top and press gently. Make sure that you leave enough room at the top of the tongue depresser/popscicle stick to glue the eyes. Next you will glue the fuzzy wire on the back of the wooden stick. Allow time for the watercolor to dry, as well as the glue.

Feather Painting...Texture Painting

One of the beauties of painting is that you can do paint with anything! Feathers, sponges, forks, stamps, your fingers, etc., you name it and it will work. One of our most recent painting activities included feather painting. It is a lot of fun because you can dip the feather into all different colors of paint, swirl it around and draw/drag the paint into different shapes. The imagination is in the creator of the painting.