Butterfly ideas for bedrooms

Let beautiful butterflies, dragonflies and fairies be your inspiration to decorate your living area with an adorable 3D picture, and your child’s bedroom with wall stickers and flowering fairy lights.

• Create a string of pretty flower fairy lights you can use to decorate a bedhead. All you need to do is buy Hawaiian-style leis – they cost about $2 each from discount variety stores – snip the cotton thread and slide off each flower. Working with a string of fairy lights, push a bulb through the hole in each flower. Then simply stick the bulbs in place using double-sided tape at the base of each bulb.

• Go punch crazy and cut paper butterfly and dragonfly shapes, then use them to create a pretty piece of framed art for your living room.

All aflutter

Gather your supplies
Cold-pressed watercolour paper; dragonfly punches (one small, one large); sheet of butterfly cut-outs; black frame with mat; sharp scissors; heavy card; ruler; scalpel; pencil; sample pot of Dulux Sunbound;
foam roller; craft glue; bamboo skewer

STEP 1 Punch out several small and large dragonflies, using watercolour paper. Cut paper joins to separate butterflies. Cut card to frame size, paint yellow and let dry.

STEP 2 Position mat on yellow card. Trace the window onto the card. Randomly glue bodies of winged cut-outs onto card, within marked outline. Assemble frame without glass. Glue more cut-outs onto mat. Pinch back butterfly wings for a 3D effect.