28 Unique Gifts for Butterfly Lovers
Updated: Nov. 15, 2023
Check out our list of the best butterfly gifts, from a butterfly house to butterfly books and beautiful butterfly fashion accessories.
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Butterfly Puddler
Give your favorite pollinators their own butterfly gift! Butterflies like to sunbathe and you may see them gathering around water puddles. This stoneware butterfly puddler fulfills both of these needs. Fill the shallow recycled glass well with sand or rock salt and a teaspoon of water. When the water evaporates, butterflies will be drawn to the minerals. You can also put overripe fruit on the plate for butterflies to feed on.
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Butterfly Ornament
Hang this recycled steel butterfly heart ornament on the Christmas tree, or on a tree in a butterfly garden in the summer. Either way, their love of butterflies will shine with these charming butterfly gifts.
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Personalized Butterfly Mug
Personalize this cute ceramic coffee mug with your loved one’s name. Choose between black, white and contrasting handles with a blue butterfly image. And yes, the mug is dishwasher and microwave safe. Check out gifts for bee lovers that are worth buzzing about.
Butterfly and Moth Throw Blanket
Part tapestry and part cozy throw blanket, butterfly fanatics will definitely want to show off and cuddle up under this butterfly blanket. It’s lined with multicolored fringe for extra pizazz.
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Indoor Butterfly Garden Starter Kit
Bring spring to your home with this butterfly garden kit. It features a plastic terrarium, flower seeds and butterfly accessories to get started on colorful blooming plants with sweet smelling blooms that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. All you have to provide is water and a sunny spot.
Types of Butterflies T-Shirt
Show your love of butterflies on your shirt. This comfortable t-shirt shows the unique beauty and color of different species of butterflies.
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Personalized Butterfly Cosmetic Bag
Choose from 16 beautiful butterfly designs and add a stylized name in cursive or print font to this chic cosmetic bag. It’ll truly be a one-of-a-kind butterfly gift you won’t find anywhere else—and a convenient place for the giftee to store makeup and toiletries.
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Fluttering Wind Chime
Add a butterfly-inspired soothing melody with this handmade decorative wind chime. A tiny bell at the bottom will produce a gentle tinkling sound, and the metal butterfly, flower and hummingbird will spin in the breeze. This chime looks lovely on a terrace or in a windowsill, or give it a place of honor in your pollinator garden.
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Butterfly Fabric Face Mask
Stay safe and look cute with this butterfly fabric face mask. It features elastic loops and a pretty butterfly pattern, plus the mask is made from cotton fabric. It’s washable, and the colorful butterflies are both subtle and striking.
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Butterfly Tote Bag
Take your butterfly gifts every where you go. This canvas tote bag features a vintage style chart of various butterflies in shaded black ink for depth and detail. Use the tote to carry everything from books to groceries. It’s machine washable and the straps are long enough to fit over your shoulder. If you like this, consider the mourning dove tote bag on our list of best dove gifts, too. Psst! Don’t miss the 30 best gifts for hummingbird lovers.
Butterfly Jewelry Gifts
Costume jewelry house Loren Hope creates lovely, whimsical butterfly gifts. These gorgeous jewelry pieces are hand-crafted in the USA using vintage and new glass stones. Each design draws inspiration from the wonders of the natural world.
Leather Butterfly Journal
For the avid notes taker and journalist in your life, this butterfly engraved leather bound journal is sure to be a hit. The 112 lined pages provide ample space for jotting down field notes or grocery lists. P.S. you can have the journal personalized with a name for an additional charge.
Vintage Butterfly Print
This handmade vintage butterfly print, a reprint of an Adolphe Millot’s illustration Pappilons, is available in five sizes. It’s printed on heavyweight archival matte paper and would look elegant in a dining room, office or library space. We found 5 green gift ideas to help pollinators and our planet.
Butterflies Coloring Book
Give the gift of relaxation, art and nature with an adult coloring book. This version has 98 butterfly and flower filled pages to fill in. Fine tipped markers or colored pencils are suggested for staying in the lines.
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Solar Butterfly Garden Stake
A handcrafted glass butterfly stake adds color and texture to any garden or planter. This 41-inch tall garden stake features a blue butterfly and leaves with laser cut wings. These butterfly gifts look exceptionally beautiful when the solar light glows at night.
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Butterfly Mold and Paint Craft Kit
Feeling crafty? This butterfly kit comes with everything you need to mold, paint and magnetize four butterflies: a Monarch, Painted Lady, Red Admiral and Swallowtail. It also features an illustrated educational booklet to learn more about butterflies.
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Gardening for Birds, Butterflies, and Bees Book
Editors and experts from Birds & Blooms give their tried-and-true advice on growing plants and creating backyard environments to attract butterflies (and birds and bees, too). This book is the place to start for rookie and experienced gardeners who want to see more butterflies.
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Butterfly and Hummingbird Beeswax Candles
These gorgeous candles are decorated with pretty butterflies and hummingbirds. Plus they smell like honey when burning. What a sweet butterfly gift idea!
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Butterfly Milkweed
For the true monarch butterfly lover, plant more of their favorite food—milkweed! Monarch butterflies need this host plant throughout their life stages, and you can help them by growing it in your backyard. Get a jump-start with the bareroot plants, or milkweed seeds are also available.
The Language of Butterflies Book
In this groundbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author and science journalist Wendy Williams reveals the inner lives of butterflies. For anyone interested in learning why and how butterflies behave, this book breaks it down in an approachable manner.
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Gold Filled Butterfly Necklace and Earrings
This pearl-inspired butterfly necklace and earrings set is just the thing for the butterfly enthusiast in your life. Choose from a variety of colors, including lavender and mint, all with a pearl finish and gold interior.
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Butterfly Bath Bomb
Take a bath with a butterfly—a bath bomb butterfly that is. These butterfly shaped bombs are made with organic oils and cocoa butter. They’re almost too pretty to use, and would look lovely displayed on a bathroom vanity.
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Butterfly House With Planter
Create a safe haven for butterflies and bees with this wooden butterfly house. The house provide a safe environment for bugs and butterflies to live, lay eggs, spend the winter or take shelter from rain and predators. Plant some butterfly flowers in the attached planter to attract more pollinators. You can also paint the wood with a custom colorful design. Learn how to build a DIY bug hotel.
Blue Butterfly Socks
White crew socks adorned with a vibrant blue butterfly are a fun way to add a little personality to any outfit. These are especially cute with a pair of white sneakers.
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Butterfly Cork Coasters
These coasters feature North American pollinators, including a hand drawn scientific rendering of a butterfly dating from the 1800’s. Each coaster is four inches in diameter and 1/4 thick. The cork material makes them eco-friendly!
Butterfly Resin Box
Gift them with a butterfly resin box to hold jewelry, dried flowers or mementos. The resin box is handmade and the flowers are customizable to your liking. Please note, no butterflies were harmed in the making of this box—the butterfly images are paper cut-outs. Check out 6 go-to flowers you should plant in your butterfly garden.
Butterfly Tea Towel
Who doesn’t need an extra tea towel? This hand printed tea towel features an original linocut block print image of an orange butterfly. It’s made of 100% organic cotton, so it’s absorbent for drying dishes and looks beautiful displayed in the kitchen. Tea towels make a wonderful housewarming gift.
Looseleaf Butterfly Tea
Butterfly pea flower tea, otherwise known as Blue Tea, is a caffeine-free herbal tea made from an infusion of Clitoria ternatea plant flower petals. Traditionally, Butterfly Pea plant tea have been used to treat general pain and reduce inflammation (these claims have not been supported by the FDA). It has a light floral taste and the purple flowers turn the tea water a light blue color. Butterfly magic!
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Originally Published: April 18, 2022
