How To Draw A Butterfly: A Step-By-Step Guide

Your kid gets fascinated every time they see a butterfly in the garden or the park. Watching butterflies flutter is now your kid's favourite pastime. Capturing a butterfly is not an option, so why not teach your child how to draw a butterfly, step by step?

Butterflies are an amazing and colorful drawing subject. MomJunction brings this butterfly drawing for kids to begin their tryst with creativity.

For a simple butterfly drawing, you will need

  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Sharpener
  • Color pencils
  • Non-toxic crayons

[ Read: How To Draw A Bird For Kids? ]

How to Draw a Butterfly Step By Step:

Step: 1 – Start by drawing a freehand circle.

Butterfly

Step: 2 – Add an oval shape under the circle as shown in the picture.

Butterfly

Step: 3 – To continue the butterfly drawing, add the wings now. Add one bigger circle to the oval shape on the left side.

Butterfly

Step: 4 – Repeat the same on the right side of your butterfly image.

Butterfly

Step: 5 – At the bottom of the first wing, add another wing in the shape of the letter U. As shown in the picture, start drawing from the wing and stretch it till the body of the butterfly.

Butterfly

Step: 6 – Now draw the wing on the right side as well.

Butterfly

Step: 7 – Add another small circle inside the first wing on the top of the butterfly's body.

Butterfly

Step: 8 – Repeat the small circle on the other side too.

Butterfly

Step: 9 – Your butterfly pencil drawing is incomplete without the beautiful antennae. Draw two small lines on the top of the body, which is the first circle of the drawing.

Butterfly

Step: 10 – Add two tiny circles on top of the antennae as shown in the picture.

Butterfly

Step: 11 – To complete your butterfly drawing image, add colors of your choice to the butterfly and bring it to life.

Butterfly

[ Read: How To Draw A Rose ]

This is a very simple butterfly to draw and there can be many variations to it. A butterfly has colorful wings and each is unique in nature. We hope these simple steps will help your kid in learning and getting more creative.

Do you want any other step-by-step drawings? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Harshita is a graduate in commerce and holds a PG Diploma in Patent and Copyrights Law from NALSAR University. She has also pursued CA and has more than three years of internship experience in auditing. Her love for travelling has taken her to various parts of the world, and writing the travelogues was what brought out her love for content writing.... more