Egg Carton Caterpillars

Egg cartons are cut into half and painted green to make a caterpillar body.  Next, the front cup is painted red and given googly to make the face.  Yellow pipe cleaners are added to make legs ato complete the look.  Mum bo jumbo shares the details.

Good for ages 4 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://mum-bo-jumbo.com/egg-carton-caterpillar/

Bunny Props

Bunny ears are made by cutting out the middle of a paper plate and then gluing on the ears to make a fun hat.  The nose is made by painting a cup from an egg carton and adding pipe cleaner whiskers.  It's attached around the face with twine.  One crafty place shares the details.

Good for ages 6 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.onecraftyplace.com/2015/03/19/bunny-ears-and-nose-kids-craft/

Alphabet Game

Empty egg cartons make great vessels for a matching letter with magnet alphabet game from joyfully weary.

Good for ages 2 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://joyfullyweary.blogspot.com/2012/01/quick-and-easy-diy-alphabet-game.html

Egg Carton Acorns

Egg cartons are painted brown and green, glued together and hung onto brown ribbon to make acorn ornaments for fall with still playing school.

Good for ages 4 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.stillplayingschool.com/2013/09/egg-carton-acorn-ornaments.html

Egg Carton Bells

Egg carton compartments are cut and painted to make the container for little bells.  Next a pipe cleaner is poked through the top to create a handle and a jingle bell is added to allow it to ring.

Good for ages 5 and up.

The website is no longer available. 

Paper Flower Garden

Scrapbooking paper is cut into a tulip shape and glued onto popsicle sticks.  Next, the sticks are glued into separate sections of an empty egg carton for a pretty tulip garden.

Good for ages 7 and up.

Website is no longer available. 

Egg Carton Fairies

Egg carton cups are painted, cut into flower shapes, and turned into pretty little fairies with cucicucicoo.

Good for ages 10 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.cucicucicoo.com/2015/05/tutorial-upcycle-egg-cartons-flower-fairies/

Egg Carton Dragonfly

 

 

An egg carton is covered in tissue paper and given tissue paper wings with crafty morning for a fun summer bug craft for kids.

 

Good for ages 3 and up.

 

Get the instructions here:

http://www.craftymorning.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/egg-carton-dragonfly-craft-for-kids-.png

Egg Carton Bee

Two egg carton cups are cut out, painted yellow, given black pipe cleaner antennae and legs, silver pipe cleaner wings and googly eyes to make a little yellow bumblebee.

Good for ages 7 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.craftymorning.com/egg-carton-bumble-bee-craft-for-kids/

Egg Carton American Flag

An extra-large egg carton is painted red and blue for an upcycled American flag from crafty morning.

Good for ages 6 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.craftymorning.com/egg-carton-american-flag-craft-for-kids/

Egg Carton Ladybugs

Egg carton cups make the perfect size body for ladybugs.  Crafts by amanda paints the cartons, glues on a pompom and a pipe cleaner and googly eyes.

Good for ages 6 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://craftsbyamanda.com/posts/

Cut out one section of the egg carton for the ladybug's body and paint it completely in a vibrant ladybug color.  Cut six tiny pipe cleaner pieces and glue them on as legs inside the egg carton container and secure them with tape.  You can bend the pipe cleaners so the ladybugs will stand up on their own.  Next, add googly eyes and antennae.

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Egg Carton Butterfly

The top of an egg carton is cut out to a butterfly shape using the indent as it's base and the panels as wings with craftoart.  She then paints and decorates the carton.

Good for ages 6 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.craftoart.com/2011/11/kids-craft-styrofoam-egg-carton.html

Looledo uses the entire egg carton as the body and adds paper wings and pipe cleaner antennae and legs.

The site is no longer available.

Egg Carton Easter Bunny

Egg cartons are cut apart and given eyes, a nose, mouth, whiskers and ears with crafty morning.

Good for ages 4 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.craftymorning.com/egg-carton-bunny-craft-kids/

Egg Carton Easter Eggs

Egg cups are cut out of an egg carton and colored, stuffed with candy and stuck together to make these upcycled Easter eggs from green owl art.

Good for ages 1 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://greenowlart.blogspot.com/2012/04/rustic-egg-carton-easter-egg.html

Egg Carton Lobsters

Half of an egg carton is painted red, given pipe cleaner legs, and googly eyes with free kids crafts.

Good for ages 6 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.freekidscrafts.com/egg-carton-lobster/

Egg Carton Turkeys

Cut up egg carton cups make the bodies for cute little turkeys with buzzmills.  She then adds feathers, googly eyes and a felt bead and feet to make them complete.

Good for ages 8 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://buzzmills.typepad.com/blog/2013/11/last-year-we-made-these-turkeys-for-our-thanksgiving-decorations-and-had-so-much-fun-and-this-year-we-decided-we-wanted-to-m.html

Egg Carton Bats

Egg cartons are painted black, cut into bats with wings and given googly eyes with happy clippings.

Good for ages 6 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.happyclippings.com/2011/10/diy-halloween-egg-carton-bats-and-leaf-ghosts-kids-craft.html

Crafts by courtney shares this tutorial as well.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.craftsbycourtney.com/how-to-crafts/make-a-spooky-egg-carton-bat-decoration/

Felt Egg Carton Squirrels

Egg carton cups are painted brown with brown squirrelly felt pieces glued on to make these cute little squirrels from spoonful.  They recommend creating 3 and hiding acorns underneath for the classic find the acorn game.

Good for ages 9 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://spoonful.com/crafts/nutty-squirrels

Egg Carton Bus

An egg carton and plastic bottle lids are reconfigured to make a bus for tiny plastic toy dolls or animals from free kids crafts.

Good for ages 6 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.freekidscrafts.com/recycled-hop-hop-bus/

Mancala Game of Oware

An egg carton makes the perfect vessel for a homemade mancala game oware.  Marie pastiche shares not just the craft but detailed instructions for how to play the game.  She suggests using beans for the pieces.

Good for ages 5 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://mariespastiche.blogspot.ca/2014/03/west-african-game-how-to-make-and-play.html