Make $10 cellophane fairy wings: No wire, safe for kids, patterns included.

Links to design sources below. (Also perfect for playing dress up with small dogs.)

Patterns from video
https://sites.google.com/site/grypher...
https://sites.google.com/site/grypher...

Supply list and video transcript
https://sites.google.com/site/grypher...

Holland's butterfly book
http://books.google.com/books?id=ktwG... Source for most round wing shapes

The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada
http://books.google.com/books?id=oIJI... Good source for swallowtails, check out page 2123 for super long tailed wings

Tillyard's The biology of dragonflies
http://books.google.com/books?id=N3Ye... Several simplified dragonfly drawings of only a few veins make creating easy veins possible (dig around has many styles of drawing in the "Wings" chapter).

Snodgrass's The anatomy of the honey bee
http://books.google.com/books?id=F3cu... Snodgrass, to this day, remains the world's best insect anatomist. Have reverence as you page through!