Free Printable Butterfly Outlines and Templates

Are you looking for some butterfly outline templates you can use for various projects? Then these butterfly printables are just what you need!

Butterfly Outlines

The black butterfly outlines add a decorative element to bulletin boards, and they are so much fun for kids to decorate. So download and print these outlines and store them with your crafting supplies. You never know when inspiration will strike causing you to need a black outline for a project.

Things to Make with Butterfly Outlines

Printable butterfly outlines are not only great decorations, but they’re also great additions to a variety of crafts you and your children can make together. Just think about putting together a butterfly crown for your daughter to wear to a birthday party. Cool yourself with a butterfly fan. Hang a butterfly mobile above a baby’s crib or make a garland of butterflies for spring.

And be sure to make a customized coloring book for your kids by mixing printable butterfly outlines with spring coloring pages.

Butterfly Crown

Make a simple butterfly crown for your children by cutting a strip of paper to fit around your child’s head and printing a butterfly for your kids to color. Once it’s colored, glue the butterfly silhouette to the front of the headband.

Butterfly Fan

Print out two copies of a black line butterfly onto white cardstock for your kids to color. Once they are both colored, carefully cut out both butterflies. Glue the two butterflies together with the top of a popsicle stick between them. Your children will end up with a beautiful butterfly fan to keep you cool this summer.

Butterfly Headband

Start by printing a large butterfly shape on a piece of white construction paper or cardstock. Have your child color the butterfly before cutting it out. Make a simple paper headband for your child using a long strip of paper formed into a circle. Attach the butterfly to the center of the headband. Now you have a butterfly headband for your child to wear!

Butterfly Mobile

Pick out four or more butterfly templates to print off for your children to color on both sides and cut out. Hole punch the butterflies at the top and tie a piece of string, yarn, or fishing line to the butterflies. Tie the strings to an embroidery hoop to hang from the ceiling. You may need to arrange the butterflies so the hoop is balanced.

You might want to consider adding a few printable hearts templates to your project. Hearts and butterflies make a beautiful craft to hang above a crib.

Butterfly Mask

On a large sheet of construction paper or cardstock, trace a simple butterfly outline. Color and cut out the butterfly. Attach a large piece of elastic to each side of the butterfly, making sure that it’s tight enough to hold the butterfly on your child’s head but loose enough to take on and off easily. Then put the mask on your child to determine the best placement for the eyeholes. Make sure you remove the mask before cutting out the eyeholes.

Greeting Card

Choose and print a small butterfly outline drawing onto a sheet of paper. Color the butterfly and cut it out. Take a sheet of cardstock and fold it in half, and then fold it in half a second time. The folded side of the paper is the top of the card. Now, glue the butterfly outline drawing onto the front of your folded cardstock. You have a greeting card to give to family and friends.

Memory Matching Game

To make a memory-matching game, make a grid that’s four columns wide and five rows long. Make sure the grid is lined. Choose ten different butterfly templates to insert within the grid. Print the grid on a piece of card stock or regular white paper so that the butterflies have a white background. Then cut out each butterfly along the grid lines to give yourself ten cards for a memory-matching game.

Butterfly Garland

You will need to print a large selection of butterflies onto either colored or white paper to create a garland. They can be the same butterfly template or different types of butterflies. If you’d like, color the butterflies. Then attach the butterflies at the tip of the wings to a long string.

Consider alternating your butterfly templates with leaf templates to create a gorgeous garland to celebrate spring.

Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly

Print a beautiful butterfly stencil onto a piece of paper. Color the butterfly and cut it out. Then paint a toilet paper roll your favorite color. Once the roll is dried, glue the butterfly to the toilet paper roll along the body of the butterfly so that the wings stick out from the toilet roll.

Supplies to Gather

Be sure to head to your local craft supply store to pick up these common supplies you may need. Here’s a list to get you started.

• Printer
• Paper (regular, colored, or card stock)
• PDF Template of Butterflies (download at the bottom of this post)
• Markers, Colored Pencils, Crayons, Paint
• Glitter
• Googley Eyes
• Glue/paste
• Popsicle sticks
• Clothespins
• Toilet Paper Rolls
• Pipe Cleaners
• Butterfly stencil

If you are leanring about butterflies, check out the World of Butterflies, a Notebook Companion™ to A Butterfly Is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston.

Butterfly Outlines

Free drawing butterflies can be challenging because each type of butterfly has a different wing shape. So a printable butterfly outline is a great place to get started. It gives you the wing shape you need while making it easy to get started.

Free Printable Butterfly Templates

This beautiful group of printable butterflies will be so much fun for your kids to color. They can color the wings a beautiful yellow or choose unusual colors such as pink, blue, or gray.

Simple Butterfly Templates 

If you’re looking for an ornate group of butterflies for older kids to enjoy, check out this beautiful template. Three detailed butterflies are printed on the page begging to be colored with glitter markers.

Printable Butterflies

Two beautiful black outline butterflies are arranged on a white background. You’ll want to pull out the colored pencils so you can color the wings in a wide variety of colors.

Butterfly Shape

This simple black line butterfly includes rounded leaves and long antennae. The wings are blank so that your children can personalize the wings to their taste by adding circles, hearts, or even diamonds.

Blank Butterfly Templates with Antennae

These three detailed butterflies include ornate wings and beautiful antennae. Your older children and teens will have so much fun coloring these flying insects.

Printable Butterfly Shapes to Download

Are you looking for a variety of butterfly shapes to download and print? This sheet includes five gorgeous butterflies with detailed wings that beg you to pull out your crayons and start coloring.

Free Printable Butterfly Coloring Page

Be sure to download this printable butterfly page. There’s a single beautiful butterfly on the page waiting to be colored in with colored pencils. Your kids can color the wings in shades of red while using a large blue marker for the background.

Printable Butterfly Outline Templates

If you’re looking for a wide variety of butterflies to print or add to a coloring book, then you need this marvelous page. It includes twelve different types of butterflies on the sheet. You can glue butterflies to popsicle sticks or use them as a decorative element in your home.

Simple Butterfly Outline

This simple outline features a fat body and long antennae. The wings are large so that even toddlers won’t have a problem coloring them. Be sure to give your kids a large collection of crayons so they can make each butterfly unique.

Beautiful Butterfly Outline

Sometimes everyone needs a beautiful butterfly to color. This outline features the side of the butterfly giving kids a wonderful opportunity to decorate the wings and body.

Detailed Butterfly Template

You won’t go wrong printing out this elaborate butterfly that’s perfect for teenagers and adults to color. Make sure you have a wide variety of colored pencils on hand so you can enjoy coloring each detail of the butterfly’s wings.

Basic Butterfly Template

Download this basic butterfly template that shows off a simple black line butterfly with a long body. This is an excellent template to use for making colorful garlands to hang around your house.

Butterfly Template to Color

Black outlines of butterflies are a great addition to any coloring books you’re printing for your children. This one features a side view of an exquisite butterfly with detailed wings.

Cute Butterfly Templates

If you’re looking for cute butterfly printables, you can’t go wrong with this fabulous coloring page. It has three adorable butterflies on a white background.

Adorable Butterfly Designs

Your children will love coloring these give adorable butterflies. They can use oranges, reds, and yellows for the wings and a brown colored pencil for the body. Encourage them to color the background blue.

Butterfly Template in PDF

Pull out your reds and oranges to create a vivid butterfly. It will really pop if you use black for the background. When you’ve finished, hang the butterfly on a bulletin board to display for everyone to see.

Simple Butterfly Outlines

If you’re looking for simple outlines, then this page is the one you need. Six butterflies with different types of wings are included on the sheet. You can use the page as a supplement to an insect unit study, alongside The Big Book of Bugs, or inside of coloring books.

Butterfly Coloring Page

Be sure to add this elaborate butterfly coloring page to your child’s coloring books. You can leave the background white or use bright colors to decorate the wings and body. 

Beautiful Black Line Butterfly

Help your children master their fine motor skills by coloring and then cutting out this simple butterfly outline. The creature has long slender wings and a small pointed body. 

PDF Butterfly Designs

Make sure you have glitter markers available when your children decide to color this coloring page with three butterflies featuring different wing designs. The insects will look amazing when they’re covered with pink and gold glitter.

Simple Black Outline of a Butterfly

Your children will adore this simple black outline of a butterfly that features wide wings begging to be decorated with various shapes like ovals, squares, and triangles. It’s also a great way to help your children learn their shapes!

Ornate Single Butterfly Template

This simple template will challenge your children’s fine motor skills as they carefully color in all the small areas of the butterfly wings with their favorite colors. They can color the wings in pink and gold or use blues and greens. Either way, they’ll have a butterfly to hang on the refrigerator proudly.

Simple Butterfly Shape to Print

If you’re looking for a unique wing shape for your butterfly, this one features a unique wing shape. It begs for your kids to pull out the markers to add lines and other detail before coloring the background a deep blue. 

Butterfly Outline Drawing

Print off a butterfly with a different wing shape. This one has a rippled hind wing that will challenge your kids when they decide to cut out the outline. They can then paste the outline on black construction paper and sprinkle gold glitter all over their artwork.

Printable Butterfly Silhouette

This printable silhouette will look amazing pasted onto a sheet of colorful construction paper. Your kids can cut out the ovals on the wings to allow the background to show through the wings. Be sure to hang the butterflies on bulletin boards when the kids have finished their creations.

Butterfly Stencil

Are you looking for a simple butterfly to use as a stencil? Then you’ll want to download and print this sheet. The butterfly doesn’t include any challenging shapes, so it will be easy to outline and use as a stencil for any craft where you need butterfly designs.

Butterfly Outline Stencil

This incredible butterfly outline will beg your children to decorate a color the wings. It’s a great addition to a collection of spring symbols you may be hanging on a spring garland.

Silhouette of a Butterfly to Color

Have you thought about hanging a butterfly on your window? Trace this butterfly onto a group of transparent backgrounds before using markers to decorate it. It will look amazing displayed on your living room windows.

Printable Butterfly Stencil

This butterfly is so much fun to use for a variety of purposes. You can use it as a stencil by tracing around the outside for a crafting project. Another option is to hand the butterfly to your children and ask them to label the different parts of the butterfly.

Butterfly Silhouette PDF

This butterfly design boasts a gently detailed wing. You can use the worksheet as a coloring page or ask your children to decorate the butterfly. Once it’s decorated, add it to a headband to make a beautiful hat for your children to wear while hunting for Easter eggs.

Butterfly Printable

This butterfly includes two spots on the hind wings that would make the perfect spot to put eyeholes on a mask. You’ll want to position the butterfly higher on your child’s face so that the bottom of the body hangs over your kid’s nose.

Butterfly PDF Stencil

Cut out this simple butterfly stencil to use to decorate your children’s bedroom walls. It’s also a fun page to hand your children on road trips. They can color each section of the ornate wings in different colors.

Ways to Use a Butterfly Outline

There are so many ways to use free printable butterfly templates. You can make headbands, garlands, mobiles, fans, and crowns. Put together a coloring book or a memory-matching game, mask, or greeting card. You can even make a toilet roll butterfly! You had your kids will have so much fun adding a butterfly decorative element to your home.