If you're a real craft fan, you've probably collected one or two egg cartons in the last few weeks and months. Then you can now make some creative things that are suitable and just in time for Christmas. You can use any colors and decorative materials to make Christmas crafts with egg cartons. What could you do?
The classic Christmas characters such as the Christmas tree, Santa Claus, angels, snowman and Rudolph are all no problem. Decorate the tree with them or put them together in a mini winter landscape.
What can you make out of egg cartons? Let's start with a few simple figures that the children will also enjoy and that you can quickly and easilyJust make it with egg boxescan.
Make a cute Santa Claus with cotton wool
Egg box, acrylic paints, white mini pom-poms, cotton wool, googly eyes, optional white pipe cleaner, hot glue
- Cut off one of the cardboard cones.
- Paint the top with red paint and the bottom part with skin color and let it dry.
- Where the two colors meet, tape pipe cleaners or cotton wool around the entire perimeter.
- Glue the googly eyes underneath.
- Design the area under the eyes with cotton wool for the beard. Do not accidentally cover your eyes.
- Finally, glue a white pom-pom to the top.
Funny snowman as a craft idea for children
Egg carton, white and orange acrylic paint, green mini pom-poms, green pipe cleaner, googly eyes, black marker, hot glue
- For the snowman you will need three egg box cups.
- Paint them in white color and let them dry.
- Glue the three cups together with hot glue.
- Attach the googly eyes and draw the carrot nose using orange acrylic paint or a felt-tip pen.
- Use black dots to design the mouth and buttons.
- Cut a piece of green pipe cleaner for the earmuffs and glue the ends to the sides of the head.
- Glue the pompoms in place.
Rudolph crafts for Christmas with egg carton
Egg box, acrylic paints, mini red pom poms, brown pipe cleaner, googly eyes, black marker, hot glue
- Cut out one of the egg carton cups that will hold the eggs.
- Paint the outside with the brown acrylic paint and let it dry.
- Make antlers out of the pipe cleaners. To do this, take a straight piece as a vertical base and tie two additional pieces horizontally in two places. You then bend these in different directions for a more authentic look.
- Poke two holes in the bottom of the cup and pin the antlers in place.
- Glue the googly eyes to the front and underneath the red pom-pom for Rudolph's nose.
- If you want, you can draw a mouth with black marker.
Make a small Christmas tree out of egg carton
Egg carton, acrylic paints, optional decorations such as glitter, fake snow or pipe cleaners and star for the Christmas tree topper, hot glue
- If you want to make small Christmas trees, you will need at least three cardboard tips per tree, depending on how tall you want it to be.
- Paint them classic green or any other more modern color. Let them dry.
- Leave the bottom tip as it is. For all others, cut serrations into the edges.
- Optional: Apply liquid glue to the jagged edges and dip them in glitter. Allow the glue to dry.
- Optional: Poke a hole in one of the serrated tips (this will be the top one). Take a piece of pipe cleaner, tie a knot at one end and push it through the cardboard tip from the bottom. Think about how long you want the pipe cleaner to be and cut off the excess. Glue a star to the end.
- Pin the tips together. You can also fix them in place with a dab of hot glue.
Tip: You can also attach loops to all figures and then use them as Christmas tree pendants or hang them in other places as Christmas decorations.
Make your own Christmas tree out of egg cartons and Styrofoam cones
Would you like a bigger oneChristmas tree for Christmas decorations, you can also choose this variant. You need:
- Styrofoam cone (you can also make your own cone out of felt or craft cardboard)
- 5 Egg cartons
- permanent acrylic paint
- Hot glue
- Any decorations such as pompoms or beads, artificial snow, etc. to create
How to make the fir tree out of egg cardboard:
- Tear the boxes into pieces. Try to get all the pieces about the same size.
- Then glue them to the cone, starting at the bottom. Once you're all around, move on to the next row, overlapping the previous one.
- Paint the finished tree in a desired color.
- Once the paint has dried, you can decorate the Christmas tree.
- The decoration looks particularly pretty if you place the trees in groups.
Make angels out of egg cartons for Christmas
The little angels can be given away as good luck charms or simply asChristmas decorations for hangingbe used. What you need:
- Owner's card
- Wooden beads, preferably with holes
- Lace and decorative ribbons
- Yarn and raffia
- optional buttons (instead you can just tie knots)
- Glue
- Scissors
- Felt pens/acrylic paints
How to make angels for Christmas with egg carton:
- Cut out the necessary parts from the egg box. You will need one tip per angel, as well as halved, double cups.
- Poke a hole through the tip.
- Take a piece of string, fold it in half and put it through the hole. Tie the two ends in a knot (big enough so that it doesn't slip through the hole) or on a button.
- Pull the loop up as far as it will go (so that it is stopped by the knot or button) and in this position glue a wooden bead to the cardboard tip as a head.
- Tie the loop in a knot once around the head (if you used a bead with a hole, thread the loop through instead before gluing the bead in place). This guarantees that the angels will later hang straight and not lean forward.
- Paint the elements for the wings as desired using felt-tip pens or acrylic paints.
- Glue lace around the angel bodies.
- With yarn or raffia you can make halos or hair and decorate the heads. Create hairbands with the decorative ribbons.
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Transform fairy lights for Christmas decorations
Fairy lights are beautiful, no question about it. But if you find the lights a little too boring on their own, you can transform them wonderfully with cardboard stars and make them even more Christmassy. And you can easily make stars like these out of a pack of eggs.
- Egg pack
- optional acrylic paints
- Scissors
- Hot glue
- LED fairy lights
Christmas crafts with egg cartons and fairy lights – it’s that easy:
- Use the cardboard tips to make small stars. You need two pieces per star.
- Cut spikes into each tip and paint them any color you like (how about gold or silver, for example).
- Once the paint has dried, glue two tips together, making sure that the points of both are offset from each other.
- Then poke holes through the cardboard.
- Once you have made enough stars for all the lights in the fairy lights, insert the lights through the holes from behind.
Also read:Make simple Christmas cards: Create your own greeting cards with the best ideas and designs!
Make your own bells
Bells made from egg boxes that actually ring? No problem at all! You can now find out how you can make these pieces of jewelry yourself:
- Eierschachteln
- Bell
- Wire and pincers and wire pliers
- Acrylic paints and glitter paints
- Ribbon or string for hanging
How to make pretty Christmas bells for Christmas with egg carton:
- Cut the cups out of the cardboard and design them in any colors you like.
- Poke a piece of wire through a cup.
- Attach a bell to the bottom end by inserting the wire through the eyelet and bending it into a loop using the pliers.
- Also bend the top end to create an eyelet to which you will tie a ribbon for hanging.
- It is best to hang the bells in groups. You can add additional decorations such as pine greenery or one or twosmall wooden discadd.
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