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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Tropical Bird Crafts and Learning Activities

I don’t know why tropical animals feel like something you should learn about in the summer, because these tropical bird crafts and activities are great to do any time of year. Let’s take a look.

Homeschool Giveaways has a printable tropical birds copywork book kids can use to practice cursive or print writing. They also have links to more fun printable activities, mostly about parrots, toucans and cockatoos.

Homeschool Share has a printable lapbook all about parrots. This one is a lot of fun because it includes things like the pros and cons of owning a pet parrot and some parrot jokes alongside information about where parrots live, why they have hooked beaks and their lifespan, among other things.

Use colorful bird puzzles to reinforce number order with this free printable puzzle collection from Craft Play Learn. It includes five different bird puzzles that are each eight pieces.

And if you want to look at toucans in particular, check out this toucan study guide aimed at elementary students from Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus. This isn’t a free resource but it’s 31 pages all about toucans, their life cycle, anatomy, what they eat, role in the rainforest ecosystem, activities and more well worth the cost.

How about some tropical bird crafts? This 3D macaw parrot from The Craft Train is a great one, also not free but super cute and easy to make with the printables.

I Heart Crafty Things has a super cute parrot made with cardboard and card stock. If you hang it from the ceiling it will even spin.

Or try the cute cardboard tube parrots from Kids Craft Room, which kids will love to decorate (you could even use feathers if you have some). You can also make a parrot (or whatever other tropical bird you like) from a paper plate with these instructions from Crafts on Sea.

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