Who doesn’t love a good afternoon of crafting with the kids (until you’re left cleaning up the mess of course).
Crafting can be expensive however, these simple crafts require basic matrials and are centered around a simple egg box.
Egg box crafts are the perfect introduction into crafting and creating with little hands, and a way to discuss wider topics as part of an educational programme such as; how to grow food, the eco system, or even history.
I’ve partnered up with some super crafty bloggers to share my favourite easy egg box crafts which are suitable for Easter and beyond!
1. Recycled Egg Carton Caterpillars
Making carton caterpillars from recycled egg carton’s isn’t just a great craft it’s also a gateway into a wider conversation about caterpillars and the eco-system with kids.
This craft is simple and incredibly easy meaning it can be done with children aged two and upwards using basic craft materials which can be found in supermarkets and grocery stores.
Read the complete guide at Create Green Living
2. Egg Carton Spider Craft
Egg carton spider crafts for kids are a great way to spend a rainy day. This craft requires basic craft supplies including; black paint, a paint brush and googly eyes.
All of which can be picked up from the supermarket or local pound store if you don’t already have them as part of your craft stash at home.
Read the complete guide at Easy Craft For Kids
3. Egg Carton Creatures
Help your kids get creative with this super fun easy craft of turning an egg box into a range of different creatures.
Each creature can be decorated differently depending on the craft supplies you have on hand (and the amount of mess you’re wanting to make). Consider adding glitter, pipe cleaners, paint, drawings, googly eyes and bobbles to each character.
These can then be transformed into characters as part of a story or figures to play with.
Read the complete guide at Create Green Living
4. Cress Caterpillar
This awesome catterpillar craft keeps on giving. Allowing you to turn your final decorated egg box caterpillar into an awesome ecosystem of homemade cress.
This again engages kids and opens up a wider discussion of how food is grown – I speak from experience when I say cress is super easy to start with and almost impossible to kill too!
Read the complete guide at Daisies and Pie
5. Ladybug Egg Cartons
Who doesn’t love ladybugs? This super easy egg box craft requires basic materials such as googly eyes and paint and can be completed with kids in under 30 minutes.
Once dry these ladybugs are ready to be played with and can be used as decoration or as characters / figures for your kids to play with on playmats etc.
Read the complete guide at Create Green Living
6. Pumpkin Treat
Halloween is one of my favourite times of year, and the weather is perfect for crafting together as a family.
These pumpkin made egg boxes are the perfect size to hold a treat and can be used as decoration, characters or figures for your kids to play with or even as gift boxes for friends and family.
Read the complete guide at Easy Craft For Kids
7. Santa Decorations
These zero waste Christmas decorations are perfect to hang on the tree. Consider making extras for friends and family too. They use basic craft materials and can be made in under 30 minutes.
The process is super simple, making this craft suitable for kids aged two and up.
Read the complete guide at A Rose Tinted World
8. Mancala Stratergy Game
So far a number of these egg box crafts have focused on younger kids, however, you can just as easily convert egg boxes into something fun for older kids too.
One of my favourite egg box crafts is super simple and it involves converting the box into a Mancala for the Mancala stratergy game.
This game dates back to ancient Egypt and is a great way to stimulate your kids brains with new activities or discuss ancient history.
Read the complete guide at Chaotically Yours
9. Bat Decorations
I can’t believe it’s taken us until number nine to get an awesome bat egg box. These were my favourite egg box characters back as a child and they’re still just as fun and effective today.
Egg boxes can be turned into bats in under 30 minutes, even with little hands. Once completed they can be used as decorations for halloween, or even as characters and figures for kids to play with.
Read the complete guide at Suburbia Unwrapped
10. Seed Starters
I know we touched on this earlier, but I wanted to reiterate that egg boxes make awesome seed starters which are zero waste and even decompose in the ground.
Consider the simple, yet rewarding craft of chopping some up and planting seeds such as marigolds in them. You’ll be able to watch the seeds grow both indoors and outdoors as a family.
Read the complete guide at The Kitchen Garten
they look so awesome!
Oh thank you!!
You are so watchable and so good at this arts and craft vlogging – I seriously wish you had been around when my children were little! #bigpinklink Hope you enjoyed the festival and storytelling!
Thank you!! I was struggling a bit here!! Festival fun for 3 days meant one tired lady!! xx
Oh this is fab! You are such a natural, and very useful for me as I am so rubbish at crafts. Hope the festival was good lovely! Thank you for hosting #bigpinklink xx
Love the matching hair and cardy!! I am so ‘uncrafty’, but this chirpy music makes me think even I could do it. #bigpinklink
This is great, simple and fun to do!
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How lovely! I’m tempted to do these for myself (the boy hates craft hahah) #bigpinklink
That’s such a great idea! I want to be a toddler again and do that kind of stuff all day long instead of boring stuff like housework and paperwork!
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This took me right back to my Blue Peter watching days 🙂 They look fab. Anything that was that easy to make would have suited me when my kids were little. Alison x #bigpinklink
This looks fab! I might have my daughter watch it, you are so much easier to listen to than others she watches and she would have some lovely crafts too #bigpinklink
haha! aww this is so cute… you’re just like Blue Peter 😉 I’m going to get the preteen to watch this.. she’ll love this, she’s very arts and crafty! 😉 #bigpinklink
I love this idea – and it’s perfect for making my fave flowers, daffodils! 🙂 #bigpinklink
ahhh I rememeber doing this as a kid! Cant wait until my little one has the attention span to do arts and crafts 🙂 #BigPinkLink
Honestly since becoming mum I like arts and crafts a little bit more than I probably should! Especially colouring (If my daughter goes outside the lines gggggrrrrrrrr lol) Great vid #bigpinklink
Gorgeous. I love your videos – they remind me of my childhood TV – in a good way! Art Attack and Morph! Please can you come over and teach mine?! #BigPinkLink
That looks really good! Hope you had a great time at the festival too! Thanks so much for hosting #bigpinklink
Just call you Janet Ellis! Excellent video my lovely. Hope the festival was marvelous and you’ve had a bit of a rest now! xxxxx#
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Love this !! Excellent video thanks 🙂 xxx thanks for hosting #bigpinklink
What a fab, innovative idea, and something creative and fun to entertain the little ones 🙂 x #bigpinklink
Ohh we have just finished a box of happy eggs so may have to use this for some rainy day crafting!! Loving the pink scissors (obvs) #bigpinklink
Admiration aplenty from someone who was and still is totally useless at any form of crafting. #bigpinklink
One for the summer hols list! Flump is gonna LOVE this one, right up her street x #bigpinklink
Ah these are reeky cute, my girls would love making these x #bigpinklink
Oh these are fab, can’t wait for my littles ones to be able to enjoy doing things like this…although my mum craft skills aren’t too hot, they’ll probably surpass me relatively quickly. #bigpinklink
Haha, deadly! Will defo be doing this today so !!
We recently used egg cartons to create ducks which was great fun. Will post about them & how we get on with your 3D versions soon.
Nice one Pink Pear Bear!! #bigpinklink
Great idea! I have a whole shelf covered in empty egg boxes for craft time but I just didn’t know what to do with them..until now! Great vlog, me and Leo will be doing this on the weekend 🙂 xx #bigpinklink
Love your vlogs – you come across so well on camera 🙂 I am sorry your nozzle was blocked 😀 😉 This looks like a lovely activity for when Littlest is a bit bigger. I would have no chance with biggest! #bigpinklink