What to do with all those coffee filters now that there's a Starbucks next to your house.
materials:
Coffee Filters Droppers
Watercolors Tray
Pipe Cleaners
get to work:
1. Place one coffee filter on the tray or mat.
2. Fill the droppers up with a little bit of watercolor and drip the color over the coffee filter.
3. Once saturated, peel the coffee filter apart using the tab. Peel until the filter is open and looks like wings.
4. Take the pipe cleaner and make the body of the butterfly, using the excess as the antennae.
a few extra tips:
Market Pantry white cone filters are the best for this project. You can find them at Target. Also the coffee filters dry and keep shape quite well, so while the butterfly is wet you can shape the wings to your liking.
If you don't have watercolors and droppers on hand, try scribbling on the filters with washable markers and dribbling/spraying water over it once you're finished. This process may take some scrunching of the filter to get the colors to run, but it works just as well in the end.
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