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April 8, 2014 · 7 Comments

Milk Carton Butterflies

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Full of the joys of spring and with a lovely blue sky overhead we decided we wanted to bring some colour to the trees…
So we made some beautiful butterflies…

Here’s how we did it..

We washed out some empty milk cartons.

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I then carefully cut the carton into strips and drew butterflies on them for the kids to carefully cut out..

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Once we had our shapes we coloured our butterflies in with permanent marker pens..

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They looked great! We stuck some gems to some of them..

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We finished by poking a paper clip through each one to hang in the trees.

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We then set about hanging them in the trees..

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They looked BEAUTIFUL ๐Ÿ™‚

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  1. Kelly says

    April 8, 2014 at 5:10 pm

    Beautifully simple!

    Reply
  2. Liz Burton says

    April 8, 2014 at 10:42 pm

    How pretty! What a great way to add some colour to the garden when there is not much around!

    Reply
  3. hodgepodgecraft says

    April 23, 2014 at 10:39 pm

    These are so lovely! What a great way to upcycle ๐Ÿ˜€

    Reply
    • familydaystriedandtested says

      April 23, 2014 at 10:41 pm

      Thank you. It was one way to get the kids drinking milk. ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply

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