The Holocaust Museum of Houston is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies for an exhibition scheduled to open in the spring of 2012. Each butterfly represents one child that was a victim of the Holocaust. For details click here and for teaching ideas click here. Below I have gathered a variety of butterfly craft projects to get you started!
Deep Space Sparkle
Rainbow Star Books
Ramblings Of A Crazy Woman
Preschool Daze
No Time For Flashcards
Attic 24
Deep Space Sparkle
Notes From A Small Town
Ramblings Of A Crazy Woman
4 Crazy Kings
Mountain Pulse
These butterflies have been previously
featured on The Crafty Crow. Click on
the picture to go to the post :)
Cassie! Thanks so much for pointing us in this direction. I will be linking in May in my tin butterfly tutorials. I am addicted to making them and now I have someplace to share them. Thank you!
Posted by: Pam | 04/16/2009 at 04:27 PM
Thanks for putting these all together for me just in time for our butterfly theme day! You did it just for me, right?!
Posted by: Mozi Esmes Mommy | 04/16/2009 at 01:07 AM
Thank you for sharing the holocaust museum info. This would make a wonderful project for the kids at my library.
and a beautiful roundup of butterfly crafts as well!
Posted by: trish | 04/15/2009 at 07:59 PM
I love this beautiful post, fabulous ideas and really a very thoughtful idea.
Posted by: se7en | 04/15/2009 at 02:31 PM
I can't wait to make some butterflies to add to this project. Thank you for letting me know about it.
Posted by: Denise Engel | 04/15/2009 at 02:23 PM
What an inspirational, beautiful and educational project post... I recently saw the film "Paper Clips" with the same theme--- very moving.
Posted by: Katherine Marie | 04/15/2009 at 01:47 PM
we did letter B butterflies: using the upper case letter B
http://lettersnumbersandbooksohmy.blogspot.com/2009/04/butterfly-butterfly-bb-day.html
Posted by: letters,numbers and books oh my | 04/15/2009 at 10:39 AM
What a great link. My sisters and I just finished a book club reading of The Book Thief about a German girl during the Holocaust. We will definitely be participating.
Posted by: Sabra | 04/15/2009 at 10:06 AM
Thanks for posting these. We're all aflutter over butterflies right now! Here's one more butterfly idea for a "parent and me hand print butterfly" made from recycled newspaper:
http://www.otterhop.com/content/how-make-parent-and-me-hand-print-butterfly-mobile
Posted by: Wendy | 04/15/2009 at 09:49 AM
What a great and beautiful idea! We love butterflies- I just posted my own "butterfly" tutorial yesterday- we have a flock of about 30 hanging from the chandelier. So fun and pretty!
http://iwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2009/04/flock-of-butterflies.html
Posted by: Myrnie | 04/15/2009 at 09:44 AM
Thank you for sharing this Cassi, I know what we are doing today....
Posted by: lisa | 04/15/2009 at 07:42 AM
Thanks for sharing. We love butterflies at our house!
Posted by: lanie | 04/15/2009 at 05:57 AM
Beautiful idea. We will participate and remember.....
Posted by: Tami L | 04/15/2009 at 05:55 AM