This cute Butterfly Bag makes a great Valentine’s gift for your loved one. Fill it with some home-made treats or bath salts for an indulgent, home crafted present for the one you love.
You will need:
- Dolly peg x 1 (any colour)
- Pipe cleaner stem x 1
- Cellophane bag x 1
- Scissors
- Sellotape
- Barrel beads x 6
- Googly eyes x 2
- Glitter
- PVA glue
- Something to fill your gift bag with
Instructions:
- Fill your cellophane bag with the gift you will be giving. We have used sweets but you might want to use bath salts, home-made biscuits, chocolates or home-made soaps
- Fasten the end bag using sellotape so that the contents don’t fall out
- Separate the contents into both sides of the bag, so that there is a space in the middle to fix the peg (see above). You can tie the middle to ensure the contents remain separated
- Now put this to one side while you decorate the body of your butterfly
- Take your dolly peg and wrap the pipe cleaner around the head of your peg – so that there is a similar length of pipe cleaner at each side (this will form the antennae)
- Next, thread coloured barrel beads along the length of both pipe cleaner ends
- Now, glue on your googly eyes
- Take your dolly peg and slide it through the middle of the bag
Variation:
If you don’t have a pipe cleaner stem for the antennae, why not curl some paper and fix these to your butterfly instead? (as below)
