There’s nothing more satisfying than taking something that you were about to throw into the the trash and create something wonderful from it. This is a perfect recycled craft to do with your kids on a cheery spring day.
This flower craft for kids is made using egg cartons. Egg cartons can be used to make the prettiest looking flowers. You’ll have to do the cutting part yourself but your kids will love painting them.
These egg carton flowers can be made for many purposes and occasions: it can make for a wonderful DIY mothers gift, a spring craft, a DIY flower decoration piece, a DIY fun project or simply a recycled craft for kids to learn about the importance of recycling.
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Supplies to Make Recycled Egg Carton Flower Craft for Kids:
- Empty egg carton
- Paint (I love these washable Crayola paints, perfect for doing crafts with kids who will inevitably get the paint everywhere!)
- Scissors
- Craft Glue
- Green pipe cleaners
- 1 Paper plate
- Cardstock paper (to make flower pot)
- Craft rope (optional)
How to Make Recycled Egg Carton Flower Craft for Kids
Start off by cutting out individual pieces from the egg carton. To shape them into flowers, cut straight lines down from the side towards the center. This will make sunflowers.
To make other shaped flowers, cut straight lines down but then trim around the edges. I made rounded edges for two of them and pointy edges for the other two. Also make sure to gently press down on them after making the cuts in order to flatten them out. They should look something like this.
Now comes the fun part where your kids can paint the flowers any color they like. Remember to paint the center of the flower a different color to make it look more real.
While your flowers dry up, take a paper plate and paint it any color you like. We chose green. Instead of painting with flat strokes, try putting smudges of paint by holding the paintbrush straight up. This will make the background look more ummm….leaf like? We also added smudges of yellow on top.
While the paper plate dries up, use cardstock paper to cut out a shape of a flower pot. Also, take 4 green pipe cleaners and cut them in half. You’ll end up with 8 pieces.
Now you can start putting it together. Glue on the individual flowers onto the painted paper plate, leaving a bit of a gap between each flower. Stick on the green pipe cleaners which will serve as the stems. Lastly, glue on the flower pot you’d cut out.
And you’re done! If you’re making this as a DIY mothers gift or as a DIY hanging flower decoration piece then you can make holes all around the paper plate and thread a jute twine through the holes. Tie a bow at the top and hang it up wherever you like.
Your pretty, cheerful looking recycled flower craft is ready. This is a great spring craft to enjoy making with your kids and a super cute DIY gift to make for mothers day.
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