To celebrate Earth Day tomorrow, we are creating Recycled Art. With a few other craft supplies, we turned our garbage into art. Who wouldn’t love a bunch of tulips that will never wilt?
Supplies for Egg Carton Art: egg cartons, googley eyes, pipe cleaners, tissue paper, paint or markers, glue, scissors
For the flowers: We used a pipe cleaner, two squares of tissue paper, and single egg cartons, with a hole poked in the bottom of each carton (done by an adult). Once it is all placed on, pull it together. You can even twist a leaf in the stem as well. Now you have flowers that will last forever. I think we will be enjoying these for a little while, then they’ll go to someone special for Mother’s day.
For the bugs: Cut out different sizes of egg cartons for each creepy crawler. We created a Ladybug, Caterpillar, Spider, and a Bee. We used pipe cleaners and googley eyes to make them pop out. Then we actually got out the paints, I rarely do as I fret about mess. But with lots of supervision for my 2 year old, it worked out great.
It was fun to see what the kids wanted to create with egg cartons. We could have kept going with lots more creatures. It’s amazing what you can save from the garbage bin, turning it spectacular.
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Love, love, love the flowers! Great art project, and perfect timing for Mother’s Day!
So cute! I can do this, just wish I had more egg cartons, I want to do it now! I think I have enough to do the tulips this week with the kids. I know what you mean about the paints, we don’t paint as much as we should. It’s just the clean-up and then there are others that I need to supervise that are not painting! Thanks again for sharing.
Is that a Goomba!?
I literally remember doing egg carton crafts as alittle girl all the time. Thanks for sharing your many talents!
I loved this project, especially the bugs! I linked to it from my site (librarycollective.blogspot.com), but can’t use trackbacks so wanted to let you know!
Great work. You can sell your recycled art at RecycledArt.com. It’s a free classifieds section for recycled artists. Keep up the great work!
thankz 4 d’ idea….
i really like it……..