Butterfly Embossing

This craft activity requires some pre-work to be done to allow it to work smoothly. This includes exploring patterns and sharing different pattern ideas between students.

Materials
Paper
Pencil
Pen
Embossing foil
Thin wire
Beads
Aluminium wire
Candle
Hot glue gun

Procedure
-Fold a A5 piece of paper in half.
-Draw half a butterfly on one half of the paper
-Fold the paper in half along the preexisting crease
- Hold the paper up to a window with the side that is not drawn on facing out. Trace the butterfly half onto this half of the paper and unfold the paper to show a full symmetrical butterfly.
-Decorate one half of the butterfly using various patterns

-Place the butterfly design on top of embossing foil and fix it in place with tape. Using a pen draw over the patterns and outline of the butterfly pressing firmly to make an imprint on the foil.
Once this is done for one half flip the butterfly design template over to draw the other half of the butterfly.
-Cut out the butterfly from the embossing foil
- Thread some beads onto thin wire (about the same length as the middle part of the butterfly) to make the body. Attach to the foil using glue gun.
- Wrap aluminium wire 2 or 3 times around a candle.
- Curl the remaining wire around the candle using a pencil to curl it.
- Attach the end of the wire to the butterfly using hot glue

Pattern template which is laid over embossing foil. Pattern is traced over to imprint the embossing foil.

Butterfly attached to candle

Pattern imprint on embossing foil. Beaded body