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Egg Flower Craft For Kids

Kids can make a simple flower craft from a recycled egg carton.
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yellow, purple and red painted egg carton flower craft with button centers.
Prep:5 minutes
Creating:30 minutes
Dry Time:15 minutes
Total Time:50 minutes

Equipment

  • Scissors for adults to cut egg carton
  • Glue Gun For adults only
  • Paintbrush

Supplies

  • Pre-Cut Egg Carton 2 cups per flower craft
  • Acrylic Paint you can use any colors you want
  • 1 Button

Stem

Instructions

Prep Egg Carton

  • Cut a cardboard egg carton so that you have 12 cups from each carton (assuming that your carton was for a dozen eggs).

Making Your Flower

  • Cut egg cartons to resemble flower petals. Consider cutting a fringe design, larger petals or slits in between petals. This will help the egg carton cups open up a little more.
  • Match two different cut egg carton cups together to make your flower base.
  • Use acrylic paint to paint the egg carton flower petals.
  • Let the painted egg carton fully dry.
  • Poke a small hole in the bottom of one egg carton flower cup.
  • Bend the floral wire in half.
  • Poke the wire through the hole so that 1/4"-1/2" is sticking out. Bend the ends and hot glue.
  • Add a small dab of hot glue on the bottom of the egg carton flower to help support the weight of the egg carton.
  • Hot glue a button in the center of your flower craft.

Notes

  • You will layer the flowers together, so you also might want to cut and try to match the cups together to see if your designs make sense.
  • Cardboard egg cartons will be easier to work with instead of styrofoam (and better for the environment, too).
  • You can add more than 2 cups per flower depending on the look you are going for.
Author: Erin
Cost: under $2