Activity: B is for Butterfly

The chilly weather has necessitated some indoor activities (and yes, I KNOW that my chilly and your chilly are two different things. I am a huge sissy and I embrace that).

Today, I planned to carry on with our alphabet education. Since "A is for Alligator" was so cute, I went all crazy and moved on to "B is for Butterfly."

I was unaware that the letter du jour is, in fact "W."

Le sigh.

So you're going to need: some cardstock, paint, chenille stems (yeah, back in my day, they were called pipe cleaners), googly eyes and glitter.



While Turtle was napping, I cut my four pieces of colored cardstock in half.



And then I used my trusty sharpie to draw a freehand "B" on two of them (about 5" long to fit on the mounting cardstock).



I did two "B"s and then two kind of reverse "B's". These will be your wings.



When he woke up, I poured some paint on to a paper plate, dressed him in his smock, gave him some brushes and put him to work.

He calls painting "dooping." When I was showing him how the first time, the sound I made was "doop doop." He loves "dooping."



He takes his art seriously.



A masterpiece. Quick. Call MOMA.



After the paint dried, I cut out the regular and reverse B's.



Then we took a piece of white cardstock and I roughed out a Butterfly body.



I added some glue and Turtle held the wings in place.



Then it was time for some decorating!



I put down little spots of glue for the googly eyes.



And then I dotted glue on the wings and Turtle sprinkled them with glitter, under MacGyver's supervision (MacGyver was decidedly anti-glitter. I recommend doing this project far, far away from MacGyver).



Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.



And then we glued on the "chenille stem" and I wrote "is for Butterfly" after the "B."



It's displayed on the shelf on his art desk. Super cute.