Make This Fun Summer Bug Craft

If you recall making Ladybugs in this easy paper plate craft, and Bumblebees in this easy egg carton craft , it will come as no surprise to you to see us cook up another easy bug craft – but this time, we did something quite brilliant.  I took a basic kitchen utensil, and made this crazy awesome stencil for these super cute bug crafts.  

You won’t believe it.

Dragonfly Stencil Template

Materials:

• Dragonfly Template (click to download and print)
• Paper
• Watercolour paints
• Paint brushes, water, table cover, etc…
• Sharpie
• Scissors
• Whole punch
• Brad fasteners
• This strips of construction paper – to curl for the antennae

Directions

1. Print the template, and cut out (or dig out a wooden spoon, and trace it a couple times.  One Time putting the spoon at both ends )
2. Get your plain paper, and paint the entire thing, colouring all the white spots! Cover the entire paper with colour! Work as a team if need be 🙂

3. Trace out our stencil shapes onto the watercoloured paper with a sharpie.  This makes a nice heavy line for easy cutting. Cut out the body and wings.

4. Arrange the wings over the body, and use a whole punch to put a whole where all of the pieces will fasten together, and fasten with a brad fastener.

5. Curl the end of the paper strips with scissors – this also makes a super fun demonstration! And attach to the head of the dragonfly with a gluestick.

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