Today's Summer Daily Fun

Butterflies Everywhere

Make butterfly magnets for the refrigerator:

What You Need:

• Round Paper Coffee Filters
• Food Coloring - you can also use watered down tempera or watercolor paint
• Water & a container to hold the water - one container for each color you're going to use
• Eye dropper or paint brush
• Twist ties
• Pipe Cleaners
• Glue
• Magnet sheet - available at any office supply store.  (If you can't find magnets, see the tips below for another idea.)
• Paper Towels for clean-up

How To Do It:

1. First prepare your colored water by adding a few drops of food coloring or paint to each dish of water.
2. If you are using an eye dropper or paint brush, take your coffee filter, flatten it out and drop different colors on the filter.  The colors will run and blend together.
3. If you don't have an eye dropper or a paint brush, take your coffee filter and dip different areas of it into the colored water.  The colors will blend and run together this way, too.
4. When the coffee filter is dry, take the coffee filter and pinch it together in the middle so you have a bow shape.  The two sides will be the butterfly wings.
5. Wrap a twist tie around the center to secure it, then, twist a pipe cleaner around the center and let it stick out at the top like a butterfly's antennae.
6. Glue a piece of magnet to the back and admire your work!

Tips:

• Use a black magic marker to put dots here and there on your butterfly.
• Make lots of them and give them to friends or take one as a present when you visit someone.
• If you don't have magnets to glue on your butterfly, tie a piece of string around the middle and hang it from the ceiling.  Make lots and have butterflies everywhere!

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