Butterfly Outline: Personalize Your Favorite

Here are some simple butterfly outline patterns for your project. 

You can tailor them to meet your needs.

Fill in your own details or color them anyway you desire. 

If you are looking for a basic butterfly shape, these may be just what you need!

Butterfly Outline/Silhouette: In Flight

These butterflies look a little malformed, don't they?  Well, it's because they're based on photos of flying insects.

So if you want your creature in motion, these are for you.

Zebra Swallowtail

Birdwing

Outlines of Stationary Butterflies

If you prefer your subject to be more symmetrical, these images should work.

These guys were nice enough to stay still for their portraits.  So they look more normal than those above.

Zebra Swallowtail

Mexican Butterfly: Unidentified

European: Unidentified

Birdwing

Blue Morpho

If you want a detailed blue morpho, click here.  Then scroll down the page.

Butterfly on Flowers

Here's a gulf fritillary outline and silhouette for you. 

How to Get Your Free Printable Coloring Page

Ready to color?    Left click on a coloring page and drag it to paint3d or similar.  Color then print .   OR...

Click on the black and white drawing. You'll need a pdf reader to open the coloring page.  Look for the printer icon on the right side(top) of the page. Click on the icon.

Don't have a pdf reader?  Get one free by clicking on the Adobe Acrobat link below.

Hope you'll find one or more of these outlines useful.  Feel free to use them for your project or share them with your friends.  I'll add more when I find some butterflies with different shapes!

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