stART- Little Kipper's Butterfly

Little Kipper's Butterfly

Little Sweets has had a growing interest in butterflies. She recently found one of my butterfly sun catchers that I had made when I was teaching kindergarten. She really liked the butterfly and wanted to play with it. I thought it would be fun if she made her own butterfly.

I wanted to find a butterfly book to go with the sun catcher so we went to the library and found the book Little Kippers Butterfly by Mick Inkpen. The book is about dog named Kipper, who is trying to catch a butterfly. In the end he catches the butterfly, but decides to let it go. The story is very cute. Little Sweets was very interested in the story. I was surprised by how much she paid attention.

After we read the book Little Sweets made her own butterfly. I used construction paper to cut out a stencil of a butterfly. Then I put contact paper on the back of the stencil and let Little Sweets decorate the wings by placing tissue paper on the contact paper. Afterwards I attached a straw to the butterfly so Little Sweets could make it fly.

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