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Last week the kiddo, a few friends, and I went on an art adventure. The local art museum hosts a monthly art extravaganza for toddlers. It’s basically a free-for-all. Kids running, arts stations set up, volunteers doing their best not to burst into tears (there are a LOT of kids). But the kids have a blast, it’s something to do on a dreary winter morning. And, actually, I kind of had fun to.

Today’s Valentine’s Day craft, a water-color butterfly, was inspired by a craft we did at the art extravaganza. It’s simple enough that younger kiddos can do, yet fun enough for the older ones too. This little craft is great because, there is little clean up. The brush is an ice cube! An added bonus, you can do with this things that you already have lying around the house.

Supplies

• Powder Paint, Kool Aid Powder (unsweetened or sugar-free), or Jell-O Powder (unsweetened or sugar-free)
• Ice Cubes
• Popsicle Sticks (optional, if you want to add a “handle” to the ice cubes)
• Construction Paper
• Q-tips (optional, for the antenna, 2 for each butterfly)
• Glue Stic
• Scissors
• Scotch® Magic Tape

On each piece of paper, sprinkle one colors of paint/kool-aid/hello. We used kool-aid and had great results. Plus everything smelled fruity while we were working. Using the ice cube, that has been sitting at room temperature for 5 minutes, smear around the paint powder. As the ice cube melts, the powder turns into paint and makes a cool pattern on the paper.

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And of course, you can always get as creative as you want. Add some glitter, stickers, candy hearts (if you don’t eat them all, that is).

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Once the paper has dried, cut it in half, then cut each half into heart “wings”.  Next, create a body for the butterfly out of construction paper. It can be all one color, three different colored circles, or whatever else you come up with. Come on, I know you are creative! The assemble by glue-sticking the wings to the body, add antenna if you want (I dipped the ends of ours in some left over kool-aid mixed with a little water). Viola! You’re done. Cute little Valentine’s Day Butterflies to decorate your fridge with.

I’d to hear how this craft turned out at your house, even if it ended up being a disaster! Sometimes those make for the best stories.

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