If you want to stimulate your kid’s creativity, look no further than the recyclable materials you have at home, you can make a lot of fun egg carton kid’s crafts while teaching them the importance of recycling and the impact this has on the environment. Don’t throw away your egg cartons! In this post, I share some crafts with recycled materials that I’m sure kids will love it!
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Egg Carton Kid’s Crafts Ideas:
Ocean Animals
An octopus, a whale, and a jellyfish that can be used to decorate the ocean that I’ll share later.
Materials:
- A carton of eggs
- White, blue, purple and red paper
- Red and light blue acrylic paints
- Wiggle eyes
- Glue
- Scissors, pencil, and brushes
- Black marker
Steps:
Carefully trim each of the spaces on the egg carton, you can trim them all if you want to make multiple characters.
- For the whale:
- Paint the cardboard with light blue and let it dry.
- Draw the fins (2) and the tail of the fish on blue paper, making sure to leave a space. Glue the tail on the back and the fins on the sides.
- Fold a white paper horizontally and trim two thin strips. Glue them on top of the cardboard.
- Pass the sharp edge of the scissors very gently through the strip of paper to create a wavy on it.
- Stick the wiggle eyes with glue and with a black marker, draw a smile. That’s it!
- For the octopus:
- Paint the cardboard with red paint and let it dry.
- Trim 8 strips of purple paper 1 in wide x 6 in long.
- Glue the strips into the cardboard, and wait for them to fully adhere.
- Pass the sharp edge of the scissors very gently through the strip of paper to create a wavy on it.
- Glue the wiggle eyes.
- And finally for the jellyfish:
- Paint the cardboard with red paint and let it dry.
- Trim 6 strips of red and purple paper 1/4 in wide x 5 in long (you can use any other color you want).
- Glue the strips into the cardboard, and wait for them to fully adhere.
- Glue the wiggle eyes.
Ocean with Egg Cartons
This egg carton kid’s crafts are inspired by The Imagination Tree blog, it’s super fun and you can decorate it in many ways.
Materials:
- A carton of eggs
- Blue acrylic paint
- Green Foam
- Shiny plastic stones
- Felt Stickers
- Rocks
- Scissors
- Glue
Steps:
- Trim the egg carton and paint the whole inside.
- While you let the cardboard dry, draw some sea plants on the green foam and cut them.
- Start assembling the ocean stage. Glue the felt stickers to the front, and decorate with the shiny stones, you can also use glitter to add a touch of shine to the stage.
- Place in each space sea plants, rocks, and shiny plastic stones. If you also made the whale, octopus, and jellyfish, you can put them there.
I hope you liked these kid’s crafts and from now on you can find egg cartons useful.
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