Beautiful Egg Carton Crafts

June 22, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

I know there are so many different things you can do with egg cartons, from making animals to flowers to the American flag, but today I wanted to focus on some kind of elevated egg carton crafts that maybe older kids (or even adults!) to use those cartons in creative and beautiful ways.

What got me started down this path were these egg carton geodes that kept showing up in my Pinterest feed. They’re from Family & Craft Online, and it’s a very old school presentation but the description of how to do it looks good.

I started looking around for more creative uses of egg cartons and found these fantastic mushrooms from Art Bar Blog. I love how they all look so different even using similar materials. This would be a fun project for a craft day with a group of kids or adults who want to make a little something cute that doesn’t take a ton of time or supplies.

I mentioned flowers above, but the egg carton flowers used to decorate fairy lights in this tutorial from Sendomatic take egg carton flowers to the next level. Or how about this gorgeous rose-bordered mirror from Bliss Bloom Blog? Or these sweet cherry blossoms from Crafts by Amanda? So cute!

In the Playroom made adorable teacup greeting cards, which would be great for Mother’s Day or a tea lover’s birthday, or you can just use them as decoration.

I also adore the egg carton animals from Viridian Art Studios (this one is a video tutorial), which you can make as animals like is shown in the video, or try making self portraits, or illustrate characters from a favorite book, make your teacher as a teacher appreciation gift, the ideas are as endless as the number of egg cartons coming through your house!

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Learning about Snow

Not all of us live where there is a lot of snow in the winter (or even where it is winter as I write this, but it can still be fun to learn about snow, what it is and why it falls, so let’s get into it!

First, let’s talk snowflake science with The Homeschool Scientist. They have a free prinatble snowflake science less that’s more than 60 pages long and good for multiple grade levels. The blog post linked here includes some fun snow facts, information about how snowflakes form and why they are both six-sided and (probably) all different.

Expressive Monkey has a great post about how snowflakes are formed and why they have six arms, and also shows some of the pictures taken by W. A. Bentley in the 1920s (more on him below).

You can also grab a free snow facts worksheet with space for kids to draw their own unique snowflakes from Education.com. Simple Living Creative Learning also has a paid snow study resource set that includes things like different types of snowflakes, the snow cycle, symmetry drawing with snowflakes, tips for snow safety, snow-related vocabulary and more.

Homeschool Superfreak has another great page for learning about snowflakes, which includes information about Snowflake Bentley, a great book to read (and person to learn about). It includes lesson plan ideas and links to activities.

Speaking of activities, if you happen to have snow around you can make snow ice cream or maple candy, paint on snow or with snow, or do some snow science experiments. If you get a ton of snow you could maybe even build an igloo or snow structure.

If you don’t get snow you can learn about how animals keep warm in the snow and cold temperatures with this experiment from I Can Teach My Child. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls can help you learn why big paws (or snowshoes) make it easier to walk in the snow. Or make a snowstorm in a jar like this one from MomBrite.

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