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Things you will need:

    Pencil
    Scissors
    Bendy drinking straws
    Bright or patterern paper (I’ve used “Salt Paper” I made earlier,
    but you can also use “Splattered Paper)
    Beads
    Ribbon
    glue
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Fairy Craft - Fairy Butterflies
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Step 1      Fold the paper in half and glue it together with the paint on
                the outside.  Fold the paper in half again.  Draw two butterfly
                wings on it, then cut around the wings, cutting through all the
                layers of paper.

Step 2     Cut the end off a drinking straw just above the bumpy part, one
                for each butterfly you are planning to make.

Step 3:    Cut down into the bumpy part to make feelers and bend
                outwards  

Step 4     Open the wings, lay the straw in the center (fold), then snip off
                the bottom end of the straw.

Step 5     Push a piece of ribbon though a bead.  Tie a knot in the ribbon
                and push it though the straw.  

Step 6     Glue the straw onto the wings.
Face Painting, Northern Colorado, Loveland, Cheyenne, WY