The new splash pad at Homesteader Park will feature some frogs and now, butterflies. At a Monday meeting, the Powell City Council opted to spend a couple thousand dollars to incorporate a butterfly-themed water feature.

City Administrator Zack Thorington said the project engineer felt the colorful, water-drizzling insects would fit the pad’s froggy theme and could replace one of three water-spewing cattails.

Switching to the butterflies will cost an additional $2,610, but Councilman Steve Lensegrav described the expense as minimal in the scheme of the $500,000-plus project.

“It’s just a little thing that kind of adds a little pizazz to it,” Lensegrav said.

The council unanimously approved the change order.

The feature — which was only recently released by the manufacturer — consists of two butterflies mounted atop a pole.

“With each flutter, the butterflies release a gentle mist of water below,” Vortex Aquatic Structures International’s website explains.

The fluttering bugs will join a bullfrog-themed water archway, a water cannon, fountains, a tower that dumps buckets of water and other features. The splash pad is being constructed just east of the Powell Aquatic Center, in the same spot where the wading pool (or “Frog Pond”) once stood. It’s supposed to be completed by the end of May.

Roughly half the cost is being covered by a $250,000 grant from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund.