Botty-wipe Butterflies

You know with small kids you often end up with a few wipes at the bottom of the changing bag which are not as soft and moist as they could be. I’ve come up with a way of using them for a little make and do crafty activity.

You will need
a handfull of botty-wipes
some old poster paint that’s started to separate out, or some new poster paint with a little more water added
newspaper
a dab of pva glu
a couple of wooden clothes pegs

Pre-prepare the wipes by folding them in half and cutting out a half a butterfly shape, this is a growed up job as safety-plastic scissors don’t do the job.. Make sure you keep the body to the fold so that they can unfurl later. Put out lots of newspaper together, then drip the runny paint onto the wipe-wings. The paint will start seeping through to the other side and spreading out mingling with other colours around it; very pretty. Move onto the next one until interest wanes. Once dry use a blob of pva glue to attach the butterfly’s body to a clothes peg; when full dry and colourfast clip to curtains to show them off or a den to make a fairy grotto.

Enjoy.

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