Leaf Stamping Art for Toddlers

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Egg Carton, Vitagen bottle | Posted on 22-04-2016 | 6,113 views

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The hot spell brought many leaves to the ground and what better way to appreciate them then by making a leaf stamping art?

All you need is lots of leaves, paint brush, tempera paste and a piece of paper for stamping on. We used plastic egg cartons to store paints and empty drink bottles to wash the paint brush. We try to recycle stuffs before disposing them.

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Enjoy this video of my 2 1/2 year old boy enjoying painting and stamping:

Egg carton snake

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft from Recycled Materials, Egg Carton, Snake | Posted on 06-02-2013 | 14,121 views

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Chinese New Year is approaching fast and we are ready to welcome the year of the Snake. Let’s make a snake out of egg cartons today.
egg carton snake

 

Just cut the egg cartons into individual cups and paint green.

Paste googly eyes and tongue (cut out of felt or angpow wrapper).

Paste dots on the body.

Punch a hole and tie a string through the egg carton cups.

The snake is done!

Happy Chinese New Year to all! 🙂

Egg Carton Handprint Owl

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Bird, Egg Carton, Hand and Footprint Art | Posted on 13-08-2012 | 10,594 views

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Howdy craftiers! Sorry for the long absence. It’s been some time now since our last hand print art, hasn’t it? Let’s make this cute handprint owl art today 🙂

Handprint Egg Carton Owl

Paint your palm brown.

Stamp it onto a piece of drawing art block.

Cut the eyes and beak out of an egg carton.

Paint the eyes and beak.

While waiting for the egg carton to dry, paste some feathers on the handprint.

Paste the eyes onto the handprint and the cute owl is done! Boot boot! 😀

Egg Carton Flowers

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafty Crafted Friends, Egg Carton | Posted on 02-09-2011 | 6,253 views

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Victoria of Reuse Crafts shared with us this beautiful egg carton flowers craft.

Egg Carton Flowers

Thank you Victoria for the wonderful idea. Click here to check out Victoria’s entry.

You too can share your art and craft work with us. Just click here to submit. Thank you :D

Toilet Roll Cat Pencil Holder

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Cat, Craft from Recycled Materials, Egg Carton, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 28-06-2011 | 26,716 views

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Meow! My boy loves cat and he’ll get excited each time we do a cat craft. Today, we did a cat pencil holder using a large toilet roll.

Toilet Roll Cat Pencil Holder

You’ll need a large toilet paper roll and egg carton as the ears.

Glue the ears to the toilet paper roll and let dry

Glue the toilet paper roll onto a hard board

Once dry, trim off the excess board

Paint it, inside out.

Twist a newspaper

Wrap it with masking tape

Glue cotton around it and paste as the tail

Dab your brush on the cotton to paint it

Paste eyes, nose and draw whiskers and your pencil holder made of entirely recycled materials is done! 😀

He loves it!

Egg carton turtle

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft from Recycled Materials, Egg Carton, Fridge Magnets, Turtle | Posted on 20-06-2011 | 99,244 views

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We will be going to the beach real soon for a holiday. Getting really excited! Today, we are going to make a turtle/tortoise out of egg carton to gear up for our upcoming getaway! 😀

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Egg carton tortoise and turtle

egg carton tortoise

Paint an egg carton cup any colour you like

egg carton tortoise

Decorate it and let dry

egg carton tortoise

Cut the body out of craft foams

egg carton tortoise

Glue the coloured egg carton onto the craft foam.

egg carton tortoise

Glue magnets at the back and you’ll get a cute fridge magnet! 😀

Egg carton Heart

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft from Recycled Materials, Egg Carton, Shapes | Posted on 09-05-2011 | 13,833 views

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Remember we did egg carton grapes sometime ago? Well, today we are going to do something similar, today we are making egg carton heart 🙂

Egg carton heart

You’ll need 12 egg carton cups

Paint them red

It’s so much easier to paint if you place them on an egg carton 🙂

Arrange them into a heart shape and glue them in place

A lovely egg carton heart shape 🙂

TP Roll Egg Carton Alligator

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Alligator, Animal Crafts, Craft from Recycled Materials, Egg Carton, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 22-04-2011 | 25,470 views

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Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream..
If you see a crocodile,
Don’t forget to SCREAM! 😀

Alligator or crocodile.. call it what you want as we are making one today 🙂

Egg carton alligator

Glue 3 toilet paper rolls together or you may just use kitchen roll.

Glue the egg carton on it and let dry.

Paint the alligator green

Paint the eyes white

Paint the eyeball black. Paste the legs and teeth and the alligator is done 🙂

Egg carton Bee

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Bee, Craft from Recycled Materials, Egg Carton, Insect crafts | Posted on 12-04-2011 | 16,517 views

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We did an egg carton bee today 😀

Egg carton bee

Paint the egg carton yellow

Paint stripes on it

Glue wings onto the bee

Bend a pipe cleaner (chenille stick) and glue on the head

Paste the eyes and the bee is done 🙂

Paper Plate Pig

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Paper Plate Crafts, Pig, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 20-03-2011 | 19,377 views

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Feeling a little Oink Oink today so we will be making a paper plate pig! 😀

Paper plate pig

You’ll need a paper plate, two cups from the egg carton and a ring cut out of toilet paper roll

Paste a piece of paper on one side of the toilet paper roll ring and cut out the excess

Glue the egg carton and toilet paper roll ring onto the paper plate. Let dry.

Paint the entire surface pink

Leave it to dry

Paste eyes and nose. I used hole punch and punch out black construction paper for the nose.

Your pig is done 😀 Oink Oink!

Egg Carton Elephant

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft from Recycled Materials, Egg Carton, Elephant | Posted on 14-03-2011 | 18,303 views

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It has been sometime since we last did an egg carton craft. Today, let’s make an elephant! 😀

Egg Carton Elephant

You’ll need a head with huge ears and a body with legs.

Cut them out

Paint it whatever colour you like 🙂

Paint the ears and eyes and your elephant is done 🙂

 

Egg Carton Sail Boat

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Corrugated Paper, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Vehicle | Posted on 24-01-2011 | 15,698 views

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Let’s go sailing today 🙂

Egg carton sail boat

We’ll need some colored corrugated papers, egg carton and wooden sticks

Draw a triangle on a drawing board and paint on both sides

Once dry, cut and paste on a wooden stick

Use a single hole punch and punch a hole in the middle of the egg carton

Paste corrugated paper to cover the egg carton

Place the wooden stick with the sail in the hole and sit two eggs in your sail boat 🙂

We are ready to sail 😀

Toilet Roll Plane

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft Foam, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Toilet Paper Roll, Vehicle | Posted on 20-12-2010 | 36,591 views

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It’s a bird…. It’s a plane.. Yeah… It’s a PLANE! 😀

Toilet roll airplane

Glue egg carton and toilet roll together

Paint the toilet roll

Let them dry

Paint windows on the plane. Use hairdryer to expedite the drying process. Read more about it here.

Use colored craft foams as the wings and deco

The plane is ready to fly 🙂

The kids and their planes 😀

Egg Carton Catterpillar

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Pipe Cleaner | Posted on 05-11-2010 | 11,562 views

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Today, let’s make good use of the egg carton again and make catterpillars out of it 😀

Egg Carton Catterpillars

Cut an egg carton and paint

Remember the craft tips on how to expedite the drying process of your craft work? If you don’t, read about it here.

Paint your pointer white and stamp as the eyes.

Done 😀

Egg Carton Bat

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Bat, Craft from Recycled Materials, Egg Carton, Festive Crafts, Halloween | Posted on 11-10-2010 | 13,595 views

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This bat will make a great addition to your Halloween decor 😀

Egg carton bat

You’ll need to cut the egg carton as shown above.

Paint it black. Add eyes and draw fangs.

Put a thread through it and hang. Happy Halloween 😀

Egg Carton Pig

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft Foam, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Pig | Posted on 14-09-2010 | 19,594 views

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Oink! Oink!

Egg carton pig

You’ll need two cups of from the egg carton

Glue them together

Hold them together so that they stick nicely on each other

Paint it pink

Use pink craft foams to decorate the pig and you are done 🙂

Egg carton spider

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Halloween, Pipe Cleaner | Posted on 03-09-2010 | 19,869 views

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Incy Wincy spider climbed up the spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
So Incy Wincy spider went up the spout again!

Egg carton spider

Paint the egg carton black

Paste a couple of eyes

Use a black pipe cleaner for the legs

Put a thread through it and you’ll have dangling spiders! 😀

Cool! 🙂

Egg Carton Ant

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Ant, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Insect crafts, Pipe Cleaner | Posted on 19-08-2010 | 23,661 views

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Let’s make a giANT today 😛 Told you not to throw those egg cartons away. They can come pretty handy for crafts 🙂

Egg carton ant

Cut an egg carton

Paint it black or red

Paste the eyes and pipe cleaners as the legs

The GIANT ant is done 😀

Egg Carton Grapes

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Felt | Posted on 27-07-2010 | 56,902 views

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Craft Goes Green day 🙂 This time we are converting egg cartons into delicious and juicy grapes 😀


Yummy egg carton grapes 🙂


Cut and paint several egg carton cups

This will be my first time sharing a video of my boy at work 😀 This is a video of him painting 🙂

Ethan @ 36 months old


Once dry, paste them onto a piece of paper.
Cut and paste felt as the leaves.


Frame the grapes if you wish.


The 3D effect makes it a beautiful art piece 😀

Egg Carton Cat

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Cat, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Felt, Festive Crafts, Fingerprint Art, Halloween | Posted on 26-07-2010 | 45,772 views

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Our crafts are going green so don’t throw your egg carton away. Let’s make a cool cat today 🙂

Egg carton cat

Cut the egg carton individually as shown in the picture above.

Glue them together and paint.

Let dry

Paint your fingertip white and stamp as the eyes

Cut two triangles from felt and paste as the ears

Decorate the cat as you wish

The egg carton cat is ready. Meow 😀