So many times I’ve been the lucky recipient of her “daudles and doodles” (I’m such a lucky momma! ), but I have to say, when she brought this to me, I was FLOORED! She’s notorious for buying things at the Dollar Tree, then not really doing anything with them, or not liking what she came up with! LOL! I don’t know what it is about her “Butterfly Garden”, but I’m LOVIN’ IT!!! Could it be that I loved (and still love) butterflies? I had the coolest canopy bed with a butterfly bedspread and matching canopy when I was little, I guess it’s just carried over into my {ah-hem} old age!
Well enough talking, so here’s a picture of what she came up with!
If you’d like to make one with your child, here’s a list of supplies that you’ll need:
Dollar Tree items:
1 pack of Sheer butterflies
1 pack of foam floral disks
1 pack of colored floral wire
Remnant of felt or fabric to cover foam disk
20” length of ribbon
Straight pins or hot glue
Cover foam disk with either fabric or felt. You can use straight pins or hot glue to keep in place. Then take the colored floral wire {they also have different colors of wire, as seen in the stock photo}, cut into different lengths. The butterflies already have wire on the back of them, so just wrap around floral wire.
Insert the wire into the foam (you’ll need to poke something through the fabric/foam to get your wire started}. As you can see from the picture, she staggered them a little, then bent the wire (‘cause butterflies don’t fly straight, they FLUTTER!!!!! Teeheehee!)
Take your ribbon and tie around the bottom of the foam. You’re done!!! How easy-peasy was that?
This is such a sweet project, and even sweeter that my 11 year old daughter came up with the idea! So proud of you Ms. M!!!!
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Those are so cute! I may need to make some for spring decor around my house.
ReplyDeleteThis is so nice=). It seems that your daughter really loves butterflies. Hope she would also learn someday on how to collect and preserve real butterflies. Your daughter is really talented and creative.
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