Butterfly puzzles
23/06/2022
To create personalised puzzles in
contrasting colours, all you need is a little gouache to let pretty butterflies
emerge from their cocoons and fly!
- Primacolor gouache
- Skrib gouache markers
- Paint brushes: a fine brush and a flat brush
- A pencil
- Blank puzzles to draw on
Drying time: 5 minutes for each coat of paint
- Time to make: 1 hour per puzzle
- Difficulty: medium – from 7 years old and up
- Use the pencil to draw the body and wings of your first butterfly on a blank puzzle.
- Paint the head, body, wings and antennae of your butterfly in a variety of colours. Here, we've used shades of turquoise.
- Leave to dry.
- Paint the background of your puzzle in a contrasting colour. Choose the complementary colour to that which you have chosen for your butterfly: If your butterfly is blue, the complementary colour is orange.
- Leave to dry well.
- Using a fine brush, paint details on to your butterfly. Stick with shades of blue but add drops of white or black to your base colours to darken or lighten them.
- In the same way, paint details on the background. Here we're painted salmon-coloured leaves on the orange background.
- Leave to dry well.
- Add and strengthen the details using the Skrib markers: Draw the eyes in black with a white dot, use blue for spots and lines, and paint the outline of the wings, body, antennae and leaves in orange.
- Make other butterfly puzzles while playing with the idea of complementary colours: a yellow butterfly on a purple background, or maybe a red butterfly on a green background.
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