Toilet Roll Handprint Butterfly

Butterfly crafts are perfect for the summer months.  Today we are sharing a toilet roll handprint butterfly craft with moveable wings. This adorable kids craft is easy to make and toddlers and preschoolers will love playing with their new diy butterfly toy. 


Toilet roll handprint butterfly craft for kids. An easy and adorable activity for  toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. Perfect for a summer or minibeast project.


See lots more bug themed crafts and activities on our bug and butterfly themed activity calendar.

There are so many fun bug and butterfly crafts and activities to try! Crafts based around butterflies are especially inviting as they are so pretty and colourful. If you want to have a go at a few more butterfly crafts we loved making our coffee filter butterflies. The technique we used was a lot of fun and they looked great when they were finished. Our rainbow footprint butterflies look beautiful too due to all the bright colours used.

Why not read a few butterfly books from our bug and butterfly booklist after making this cute butterfly handprint craft?



You will need:


  • toilet roll or cardboard tube 
  • card 
  • Paint 
  • Split pin 
  • Googly eyes 
  • Pipe cleaner 



Handprint Butterfly Craft


The best part of this butterfly craft was definitely covering our piece of card with handprints and painting the cardboard tube. Daisy (aged 2) choose to use pink and purple for her butterfly and she loved getting covered in the paint. She even used her hands to paint the toilet roll tube. 

Toilet roll handprint butterfly craft for kids. An easy and adorable activity for  toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. Perfect for a summer or minibeast project.

Once the handprints had dried I cut four of them out.

Toilet roll handprint butterfly craft for kids. An easy and adorable activity for  toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. Perfect for a summer or minibeast project.

I overlapped the palms of each of the handprints to make the shape of a butterflies wings. I put a split pin through the centre of the handprints and toilet roll to keep them together. 

Toilet roll handprint butterfly craft for kids. An easy and adorable activity for  toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. Perfect for a summer or minibeast project.

You could staple the wings on, but we loved the idea of being able to have moveable wings. 

Toilet roll handprint butterfly craft for kids. An easy and adorable activity for  toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. Perfect for a summer or minibeast project.

We added googly eyes, a bent pipe cleaner as antennae and a little smile. 

Toilet roll handprint butterfly craft for kids. An easy and adorable activity for  toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. Perfect for a summer or minibeast project.

Then our butterfly was complete and ready to take flight in the garden. 

Toilet roll handprint butterfly craft for kids. An easy and adorable activity for  toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. Perfect for a summer or minibeast project.

Toilet roll handprint butterfly craft for kids. An easy and adorable activity for  toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. Perfect for a summer or minibeast project.

Artwork by Daisy - Aged 2

This easy butterfly craft was lots of fun to make and play with. Why not have a go at a few more butterfly crafts?

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