Watercolor Butterfly & Flower Painting

Butterflies and flowers are something you see a lot of in spring and summer. There is so much you can learn about butterflies and different types of flowers.

This is a fun butterfly and flower painting activity. We used the same technique that we did with the watercolor butterflies and watercolor flowers. But put them together to make this butterfly and flower painting.

Plus, this is a great painting craft that can be used in Preschool, PreK, and Kindergarten.

The Watercolor Butterfly & Flower Painting is a great addition to the and the cookie cutter crafts on the site.

What is Cookie Cutter Painting?

Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.

Butterfly & Flower Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters

Butterfly and flower watercolor painting is painting inside flower and butterfly cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids.

It makes a great butterfly and flower craft that kids can do. The cookie cutters create a great template for kids in preschool (ages 3-4), PreK (ages 4-5), and Kindergarten (ages 5-6).

Butterfly Book to Read with this Watercolor Butterfly & Flower Painting

The book we read with this activity is A Place for Butterflies . It is a great book for learning about some of the butterflies in North America. These butterflies are amazing to read about. There is even one butterfly that needs burned forests! Who would have known? We talked about how a lot of butterflies need flowers.

What we used to make the Butterfly & Flower Watercolor Painting

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• watercolors
• watercolor paper – this is great for painting projects
• flower and butterfly cookie cutters
• large paint brush

How we made the Butterfly & Flower Watercolor Painting

You can see the steps below that we used to make the -flower and butterfly watercolor painting.

Step 1: Paint Green Lines on the Watercolor Paper

You are going to start by painting some green lines on the paper. If you have a big set of watercolors you could using different colors of green.

You can going to have some short and some long green lines. But you can also let kids decide what their lines will look like.

Step 2: Place the Flower Cookie Cutter on the Watercolor Paper

You are going to place the flower cookie cutter on the watercolor paper. It really does not matter where the flower goes.

We did ours at the top or new the top of the green lines.

Step 3: Hold the Flower Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside

While holding the cookie cutter on the top or the side, you will paint inside the cookie cutter with watercolors.

You want to make sure you to paint the whole flower.

Step 4: Look the Flower on the Paper

You lift off the cookie cutter and you can see the flower on the watercolor paper.

For younger kids you can leave it as is. If you are doing this with older kids they could paint and fix the flower if it is not fully painted.

Step 6: Repeat the Steps Above and Paint More Flowers

You want to repeat the steps you see above for painting the flowers. And remember let kids decide how many flowers they will paint. There is no limit on the flowers.

Step 7: Repeat the Steps Above and Paint Butterflies

You are going to repeat the steps above with the flower for the butterfly cookie cutter. You can add as many butterflies as you want.

They can overlap the flower as well. Kids can be creative with their butterflies.

Step 8: Additional Decorating of the Flower and Butterflies

This last step is optional. But for older kids you can add some centers to the flowers and antennas for the butterflies. It is a fun extra step to add more detail to the painting.

Here is a look at Our Final Butterfly & Flower Painting

Check More Butterfly Activities for Kids

Butterfly Watercolor Painting With Cooke Cutter is a simple watercolor painting you can do with kids and a cookie cutter. You can have fun with diferent colors and paint with watercolors.

Butterfly Fine Motor Mat Printables has 18 fine motor mats with a mix of tracing, templates, and dot markers with a butterfly theme.

Romping & Roaring B Pack has a b is for butterfly letter pack. You can work on tracing, finding, and dotting the letter with the letter B and butterfly theme. This is part of the Romping & Roaring ABC Packs.

Butterfly No-Prep Weekly Packs are another set of no-prep weekly packs that are great for spring and summer. You have butterfly life cycle activities, with a mix of math and language. You have six grade levels pre, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.

Butterfly Activities Pack for Prewriting, Shape, ABCs & Numbers. It has no-prep pages, easy reader books, clip cards and tracing strip for kids to learn with. Plus the butterfly theme is great for spring.

From Caterpillar to Butterfly – Painting Butterflies is a fun butterfly painting project. This is easy to do and great for almost any age! You can work on symmetry with this painting activity.

Sequencing: Life Cycle of a Butterfly has butterfly life cycle easy reader books, butterfly life cycle clip cards, butterfly life cycle writing pages, butterfly life cycle cut & paste, and butterfly life cycle no-prep worksheets. The butterfly life cycle printable works for kids in prek, kindergarten and first grade.

Check out all the fun Bug & Insect Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com