Egg Carton Butterfly Garden

Create an egg carton butterfly garden that lights up in the dark with this printable craft template. This is a fun kids' craft for spring, and summer or to support learning about insects or minibeasts. 

Note: This craft requires additional materials, see below for details

The light-up feature is optional. You can also make this as a decorative garden craft with screwballs of tissue paper in place of tealights. 

The template includes a colour-your-own-line art version as well as the full-colour version as pictured.

It's recommended for ages 6+, although younger kids could make it with some adult help. 

The digital download file includes:

• The butterfly garden template in full colour and colour-your-own
• Printable instructions with photographs
• The file supplied as a PDF in US Letter format. To print to A4, select 'centre page' in your print menu

Additional materials required:

• Recycled egg carton base
• 6 LED tealight candles (optional)
• 2 green pipe cleaners 
• Green Acrylic paint
• Tissue paper in green and yellow
• 6 Elastic bands
• Glue stick
• Blu-tak (optional)