Kids will love transforming this butterfly fairy coloring page into a pretend play theater activity! The illustration by children's book author, Melanie Hope Greenberg, features a sweet fairy playing a lily as if it were a trumpet. She is surrounded by peacocks, sparkles and a host of butterflies.
Of course you can print out this butterfly fairy coloring page (along with our fairy tale coloring page!) for a quick boredom buster on a rainy spring day, but the real fun comes when your kids use the page as a backdrop to stretch their story telling skills.
Fairy Theater Activity:
Extend the fun by turning the musical fairy, her peacocks and butterfly into a tabletop theater playscape. Here's how:
Materials:
- Card stock or other heavy paper
- Coloring pencils or crayons
- Glue stick or tape
- Scissors
- Craft sticks or straws
Instructions
Print the fairy coloring page out on card stock.
DOWNLOAD AND PRINT --> (By clicking the following link, you agree to our terms of service. *See below.) Fairy coloring page.
Color the coloring page as desired
Cut out butterflies and glue onto wooden craft sticks or straws.
Fold the coloring page along the side borders of the frame where the fairy picture meets the peacocks.( Alternatively, you could glue the page to cardboard and fold in sides for a sturdier theater. You can see an example of how we did this with the under the sea coloring page playscape. ) If you have a cardboard box lying around, your kids can make their own tabletop puppet theater!
Finally, use the butterfly stick puppets to tell a story! Don't forget to use our additional stick puppet ideas to add to your child's play.
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Meet the illustrator:
Melanie Hope Greenberg always looks for fairies when strolling through the garden. She is also an award winning author and illustrator of more than 15 children’s books. Learn about how you can invite her to your school or library to teach children about the process of creating an illustrated book.
Her cheerful, vibrant illustrations can be found in books such as Good Morning, Digger, Down in the Subway and A City Is, a book of poems by Norman Rosten, the poet laureate of Brooklyn. Her very popular Mermaids on Parade was selected as a Bank Street Best Book, and for the Texas Reading Club and PBS Kids Summer Reading Lists.
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