A fun craft activity to do, suitable for all ages.
✓ helpful in the garden
✓ uses recycled materials
White butterflies are a pest in the garden this time of year.
They lay eggs on vegetables like kale and broccoli. When the eggs hatch the caterpillars eat all the leaves!
By making a decoy (pretend) butterfly, the real white butterfly leaves thinking there is already a butterfly laying its eggs there.
Get an empty milk bottle and draw the image on it using a vivid.
TIP: Use a template made from cardboard if you find that helps.
Step 2:
Carefully cut it out (you may need an adult to help you) and tie thin cotton (I used dental floss) around it.
TIP: Make the thread as long as your arm so the butterfly can 'flutter' in the wind.
Step 3:
Now tie it to a stick and place it in your garden.
Hopefully the butterflies will stay away!
Thankyou Miss Long, my mum and I have just started growing some herbs and vegetables so this will definitely help! I cant wait to try!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Let me know how well it works!
DeleteI have made a butterfly out off a milk carton.
ReplyDeleteI have placed it by our cosmos flowers.
Haley swart
Great! Let me know how well it works!
DeleteI have created a butterfly out of a milk container.
ReplyDeleteI placed it in the potplant in our garden.
Great! Would love to see a picture.
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