How cute are these! And so easy too!!!
Supplies needed:
- Plastic bottle caps (cleaned well)
- Plastic spoons
- Glue dots (found at any craft supplier)
- Plastic to make wings (I used the insert from a reusable shopping bag but we’ve used old milk bottles before too)
- Permanent pen (to mark out wings)
- Scissors (to cut out wings)
- Kindy Glitz or other craft supplies to decorate wings
- Googly eyes
Mark out some wings using the permanent marker then cut them out.
Then have the kids glue the wings and eyes onto either the bottle cap or spoon. Then it’s as simple as decorating the wings and giving them a name. We also glued them onto some long paddle pop sticks to insert into the garden.
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These are so cute Louise! My boys would love making these. xoxo P
Hi Pauline, I’m glad you like them! They are so super easy and a great way to recycle all those bottle caps! :).
Louise x
I love cap! thank you, ILE
Love these! We made them for our pop plants! Loving the blog.
Clare x
Thanks again Claire! So glad you are loving our page, it’s so nice to hear!! Jen & Lou x
Thank you for the link :). You have a great blog.
Louise x
Dear Louise and Jenni,
I hope all is well! My name is Lauren and I am a contributing writer for Care.com, a site that helps connect families and caregivers. As part of our service we also offer tons of free articles and resources for a kid-friendly audience.
I wanted to let you know that we have featured your Bottle Cap Bugs (http://pagingfunmums.com/2013/01/24/fun-easy-bottle-cap-bug-craft-louise/ ) in our latest article on Summer Crafts for Kids! We absolutely love your work and have linked back to your site from our piece.
You can see it here: http://www.care.com/child-care-62-summer-crafts-for-kids-p1017-q30457360.html
We will be promoting the article through our social channels and we would love for you to share it with your blog and/or social followers as well!
Thanks so much!
Best,
Lauren
That’s wonderful Lauren, thanks for letting us know!
We will share on our social media!
Kind regards
Jenni
gracias le enseñare los insectos de esta manera a mis niños
I love your crafts keep up the good work
I really enjoy this craft it is perfect for what I was looking for. I am a activities director at a campground (on a volunteer basis) and I have accumulated lots of recycled stuff, bottle caps being one of them and did not know what to do with them. The children will love this, thank you so much for posting.
l do art in a 3rd grade class. l think these will be fun for the kids after taking those standardized tests. Thanks for posting.