Coffee filter butterfly

(This idea came home from school.)

Materials:

• cone shaped coffee filter
• pipe cleaner
• things with which to decorate butterfly such as bingo dauber (shown), crayons, paint, stickers, glitter
  

Instructions:

• have adult open up coffee filter to be flat
• have child decorate coffee filter as desired
  
  
  
• have adult wrap pipe cleaner up around the middle of the coffee filter to make a body and antennae, and voila!
  

Coffee Filter Flower

This was created at our local Ontario Early Years Centre.

Materials:

• coffee filter
• things with which to decorate flower (bingo daubers, stickers, glue and glitter, crayons etc)
• pipe cleaner
  

Instructions:

• spread coffee filter flat (one big circle) have child decorate coffee filter
• adult to scrunch coffee filter in the centre and wrap pipe cleaner stem around center