Butterflies Paint by Numbers Kit

Natural History Museum

A colourful and captivating paint-by-numbers kit to paint your own kaleidoscope of jewel-like, swallowtail butterflies, depicted with beautiful peonies. Recalling the vibrant butterfly colours and markings captured in lithographs by Paul Gervais for ‘Les Jardin Des Plantes’, published 1842. The Museum boasts one of the oldest and most extensive Lepidoptera collections in the world, and encompasses millions of specimens as well as exquisite entomological illustrations and paintings. With a pre-printed canvas, and fixed pine wood-battens to weight and display your painting on the wall, simply follow the numbered colour chart to complete the sections of painted colour. With three fine-tip brushes and 24 water-based, acrylic paint-shades you will see delicate wings and flowers emerge at your fingertips. An absorbing twist on painting, create and display your own masterpiece.

Pre-printed wall hanging canvas, c.50 x 40cm, supplied rolled
Cotton/terylene mix canvas with fixed FSC-pine wood-battens and hanging string
24 acrylic paints in numbered, lidded-plastic pots
Three plastic and nylon fine-tip brushes
Includes 50 x 40cm image guide
43.5cm x 7.5cm dia tube
Paper and card can be recycled
Some content packed in a cello bag – widely recycled with soft plastics
Age 14+