How To Make Butterfly Party Favors

Accessorize any birthday or spring celebration with butterfly party favors. Prepare these in advance or encourage guests to join in the fun of creating their own butterfly favors. Butterfly party favors provide party entertainment as well as special items to take home as a reminder of the party. Shopping sales and checking your local discount store helps ease the cost of supplies.

Things You'll Need

• Canvas tote bag
• Butterfly stickers
• Butterfly hair clips
• Flower seeds
• Gummy worms
• Butterfly rings and bracelets
• Coffee filters
• Pipe cleaners
• Glitter
• Markers and crayons
• Headbands
• Pom pom balls
• Butterfly wings
• Wooden butterflies
• Paint
• Jewels and beads
• Magnets
• Pins
• Puzzle pieces
• Black construction paper
• Hole punch
• Sugar cookies
• Icing
• Sprinkles and small candies
• Cellophane bags

Instructions

1. Put together butterfly goodie bags. Grab all things butterfly and put them in a canvas tote bag. Decorating the bags with butterflies or incorporate this decoration into your party activities. Include butterfly stickers, hair clips, flower seeds, gummy worms, butterfly rings and bracelets. Check your local discount store for small, inexpensive items to include.

2. Make butterflies at the party. Gather the supplies to make coffee filter butterflies. Guests can take these butterflies home after the party. Purchase coffee filters, pipe cleaners and decorative items like glitter, crayons and markers. Decorate the coffee filters. Gather the coffee filter's center and wrap with a pipe cleaner. Make butterfly antennae using a headband, pipe cleaners and pom pom balls.

3. Decorate butterfly wings. Purchase pre-made or make butterfly wings before the party. Encourage party guests to decorate the wings and take them home as a party favor. Decorate wooden butterflies. Purchase butterfly shapes from your local craft store. Provide paint, glitter, jewels and beads for decoration. Glue a magnet on the back to create a refrigerator magnet.

4. Create magnets or pins using puzzle pieces. Use old puzzles with missing pieces to create butterflies. Paint the puzzle pieces bright pastel colors. Add a black head and body using punched black construction paper and craft wire to create antennae. Attach a magnet or jewelry pin to the back.

5. Bake cookies. Use a butterfly cookie cutter to make sugar cookies. Decorate and place in a cellophane bag for guests to take home. Prepare the cookies in advance and allow party guests to decorate the cookies during the party. Provide various colors of frosting, small candies and sprinkles.