How to make your very own butterfly kite
Make your own butterfly kite using card or paper. Print out the template, colour it in (why not model your kite on one of our species on the edge butterflies? Inspiration below), do some folding, cut it out, add a lollipop stick and string, and then take your kite outside and watch it fly!
Find all the instructions on Butterfly Conservation’s website, or watch their YouTube tutorial.
What you’ll need:
- Butterfly Conservation’s Butterfly Kite template printed onto paper or card
- Colouring pens/pencils
- Lollipop stick
- Scissors
- Tape
- String
Why not make a Species on the Edge butterfly kite?
At Species on the Edge, we have three rare butterflies that we are working to help. Why not learn more about them and use one of them as inspiration for your butterfly kite? And if you fancy getting the glitter out, the small blue butterfly is actually sparkly!
Northern brown argus
The northern brown argus butterfly is dark chocolaty brown in colour with orange crescents towards the outer edges of the wings. The male has less or no orange crescents on the upperwing. In Scotland, it has a white dot on its forewings.
Small blue
The small blue is the UK’s smallest butterfly. Male small blues tend to be dark grey black with a sprinkling of silvery/blue at the base of its wings. Females are much browner in colour with no sign of blue.
Marsh fritillary
The marsh fritillary is a brightly coloured butterfly, with a mosaic of orange, yellow, and brown markings on the upper surface of both the forewings and hindwings, which form distinct rows of the same colour. There is a prominent row of small black spots towards the outer edge of each hindwing.
