Making Golden Butterfly Suncatchers

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January 31, 2020

Golden Butterfly Suncatcher - two suncatchers hanging, showing both the back and the front This is a great craft for small children of all ages. They love to make these to hang in their windows, on the front porch, or to display in their room hanging from the ceiling. I was teaching a class for handicap children here and was asked to help them make suncatchers. The only help these children needed was a little help to drill the hole in the suncatcher when it was finished.

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 1 sun-catcher

Supplies:

old CDs
black permanent marker
fishing line
drill and small drill bit
gold fingernail polish
gold glitter gel
tape
fingernail polish remover

Steps:

Clean the CD by scratching a small area on the disk. Take the tape and place next to this area and pull the tape towards you.

Golden Butterfly Suncatcher - scratch the label side and use tape to clean it

After the disk is clean take a small cloth and some fingernail polish remover and clean the front and the back of the plastic. You should use a fingernail polish remover that does not have acetone in it.

Golden Butterfly Suncatcher - wipe with non-acetone nail polish remover

On the side of the DC that did not have the label draw your butterfly. Use the black permanent marker to draw all the lines and then color in the black area in the wing.

Golden Butterfly Suncatcher - using the marker draw the butterfly on the side of the CD that did not have label

Turn the CD over and use the gold fingernail polish to apply a layer of gold polish to the back of the butterfly. You want to make sure you cover the entire area of the butterfly.

Golden Butterfly Suncatcher - cover the entire butterfly with gold nail polish on the back side

Now touch up the butterfly with the marker to make sure all the black areas shine through. Draw a black line around the outside of the gold paint.

Golden Butterfly Suncatcher - line drawn around the gold polish edges

Now add a layer of gold glitter glue to the front side of the CD where you drew the butterfly. I like this because when the light shines on the glitter glue it adds more color to the room and the streaks in the glue from the paintbrush will give it a great look.