How To Make Decor Out Of Egg Cartons

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If yous need an easy kids' arts and crafts thought with slap-up results, this egg carton fine art is fun and sure to please. This recycled canvas art can be customized for any vacation or decor!

Check out the video in this mail service to meet how it all comes together.

I don't post nearly plenty like shooting fish in a barrel kids' crafts on this web log . . . which I intend to remedy today with this fun egg carton art. With warmer weather around the corner, this is the perfect summer craft for kids you're really going to enjoy, even every bit an adult.

I love egg carton crafts, which is great considering I'm doing a paleo eating thingy right now – and so egg cartons are plentiful around hither. Let's just say if I had room, it would exist smart to get a chicken. I've got a lot of cartons to recycle!

Egg Carton Art

Anyhoo, back to the egg carton art. If you are going to use acrylic paint similar I did, you lot want to avoid the foam egg containers and go for the cardboard (newspaper-ish stuff?).

I had a blast making this and your kids will too. Information technology's a great boredom buster and you lot can customize the colors for whatsoever time of year. Here'due south how I made my Mod Podge egg carton art.

Egg Carton Crafting Tips

In that location are but a few things I wanted to call out when doing this project. Every bit I said, it's relatively easy, but I do think an adult should initially cut the egg carton into separate compartments. The kids can and so shape them into flowers.

Still it is a picayune difficult to manipulate kid's scissors on an unabridged carton, so practice the dirty work of separating and then permit your littles have at the project.

Another fun mode to tackle this canvas is to layer the egg carton pieces to make more than detailed flowers. That means sticking one compartment into another and gluing.

I didn't practise that on this canvas, simply I program to do it for a poinsettia i I'1000 planning for Christmas!

Larn how to make this easy egg carton craft below.

Egg Carton Flowers on Canvass

Assemble These Supplies

Canvass – ix″ 10 12″
Mod Podge Sparkle
Egg carton (non foam)
Apple Barrel paint – Apricot, Banana, Pink Parfait, Turquoise
Scissors
Pipe cleaners – dark-green
Ribbon in analogous color
Buttons – I used white
Arts and crafts glue
Paintbrush

Paint the canvas with whatsoever color of your choice. I chose Turquoise. Give several coats and let dry.

Cut upwardly your egg carton. Each lil' egg container area is going to be a flower bud. Cut right downwardly the middle and remove the excess areas. I trimmed each "flower" to accept petals.

If y'all want to, y'all tin can likewise use the remaining egg carton to concur pigment. I know – I'm a genius.

Paint the egg carton "flowers" with the paint colors of your option. Requite them several coats and let dry.

Once they are dry, coat with Sparkle Modern Podge. It's hard to run into the sparkle in the final photo, just if you requite the flowers several coats of Mod Podge they will really sparkle. It's so fun!

I trimmed pipe cleaners to the right length and tied them together for a stalk. So I glued to the canvas with arts and crafts glue.

Each blossom got a button glued in the center . . . .

Then the flowers got glued to the canvas. Let everything dry before hanging.

Imagine all of the variations you could exercise. All the dissimilar colors . . . and what other shapes could yous make with egg cartons?

Prep Time fifteen minutes

Active Fourth dimension 45 minutes

Total Time ane hour

Difficulty Easy

Estimated Price $3

Materials

Canvass - 9" 10 12"
Modernistic Podge Sparkle
Egg carton (not foam)
Apple Barrel paint
Pipe cleaners - light-green
Ribbon in analogous color
Buttons
Arts and crafts glue

Tools

Scissors
Paintbrush

Instructions

Pigment the canvas with any color of your choice, Requite several coats and let dry.
Cutting upwards the egg carton. Each egg container area is going to exist a flower bud. Cut right down the eye and remove the backlog areas. Trim to create petals.
Pigment the egg carton "flowers" with the paint colors of your choice. Give them several coats and let dry.
In one case they are dry out, glaze with Sparkle Mod Podge.
Trim pipe cleaners to the right length and necktie them together for a stem. Glue to the canvas with arts and crafts glue.
Glue a button in the center of each flower, then glue the flowers to the canvas on elevation of the pipe cleaner stems. Let dry.
Let the canvas dry completely earlier hanging.

I'm excited to practise this egg carton fine art project again and over again. If you endeavour it, let me know how information technology turns out. I promise you lot'll enjoy making this Mod Podge kids' craft every bit much every bit your littles!

Oh, and before I become, we did a version of this for Christmas – bank check out our poinsettia canvas craft: