Butterflies are amazing subjects to help us engage families in discussing new life in Christ, the resurrection and hope.
We have two offerings for you here:
Download your Churchyard Butterfly HERE.
First up are butterflies for decorating your churchyard and giving those vital signs of life to your local community that this is a place of life and joy..
This simple butterfly can be printed back to back. Then challenge the children – or indeed any age – in your congregation, or the school connected to your Church to decorate their butterfly with beautiful patterns and colours.
Gather all the butterflies, cut them out and laminate them, then hang them from the trees in your church yard or from your railings and invite families to come and find their Butterflies. You could even tie it in with the Small but Mighty trail which is free to download on the Sunhats and Wellieboots page HERE.
You could either have this as a come any day activity to encourage people to explore the church grounds, or you could make it a Spring day event and have the church open to welcome families to stay and chat over tea and snacks, have congregation members available to link in with new faces.
Download your Paper Plate Butterfly HERE
The second butterfly is a more delicious sort altogether! This printable can be coloured in and stuck to a paper plate where your group can place their edible butterflies. Little hands can develop their fine motor skills by cutting out the circle.
To make the butterflies we used chocolate fingers, chocolate covered pretzels and mini smarties – all held in place with melted chocolate which hardens when dry. You can of course let you culinary imaginations run wild and use a multitude of foods to make your butterflies, even vegetables (much to my daughter’s disgust!!) It’s fun way to get a wonderful Bible verse back into the homes of your Children.