April 21, 2025
Every year, when spring decides to strut back in with its blooming branches and chirpy songbirds, I swear I love it more than the year before. The sunshine! The fresh green everything! The vibes! And every year, I make the same dramatic plea: Spring, please never leave me.
But here’s the good news—just because the season eventually slips away doesn’t mean the feeling has to. We can totally bottle up that springtime joy and sprinkle it around our homes all year long. Exhibit A: butterfly plant markers.
Let’s face it: remembering what you planted in which pot can be a whole guessing game. Cilantro? Parsley? Who even knows anymore? But pop in a butterfly marker, and boom—mystery solved and your plant gets a stylish little sidekick. Plus, butterflies = pure spring magic. It’s not just adorable, it’s practically scientific.
Everything you need for this project you can find at Michaels (except maybe the live plant)!
1/ Paint wooden hearts a solid color of acrylic craft paint. (We chose white so that the colors that we added in the next step would really pop!).
2/ Using the end of a wooden stick or skewer, scoop small amounts of acrylic paint onto one of the wooden hearts. You can make dots, lines, or squiggles, but make a generous little mound.
3/ Now flip the other painted heart and press it onto the one in step 2. Pull them apart and let them dry completely.
4/ While the hearts are drying, paint an ice scream spoon or trimmed popsicle stick and about one to two inches of a skewer. Let these dry.
5/ Break the painted part of the skewer off and snap it into two pieces (scissors help score the wood or bamboo). Glue the two short pieces to the back of the spoon as the antennae and the remainder as the stick that sinks down into the soil.
6/ Add a drop of tacky glue to the points of the hearts and line them up so they are touching. Add a drop of Tacky Glue to each point and lay the butterfly’s body on top. Let dry completely.
7/ Write the name of your plant with a marker on the body of the butterfly.
April 21, 2025| Animals, Decor, DIY Home, Everyday Crafts, Nature, Spring, Wood
