January 17, 2015

Here is how you make a butterfly to hang from an Easter tree, decorate a birthday card, or, as I did, make a mobile for a fussy baby. This design is brought to you courtesy of me and "Coral." 

 Fold your square piece of paper in quarters.

 Turn the folded triangle so the two folded edges face you, then cut three slits starting at the wide (open) end and moving toward the point.

Cut off the tip.

 Open out your square again and it should look like this:

Fasten opposite strip corners together alternately. Double sided tape would be ideal for this.

The finished "pre-butterfly" shape should look like this from the side:

And like this from the top:

Press all the taped corners together thus, and fasten in place with a thin band of paper and more tape.

Attach the butterfly body on this band with another  piece of tape. You could draw on the eyes, but googly eyes are a big plus. I sacrificed the last but two of my stick-on googly eyes for this project.

So there you have it. The finished butterfly...

...And the finished mobile. Kind of cool, if I say so myself. Zadok likes it too.