Everyday life offers us a lot of materials for crafting, but we often don't think about them. Egg boxes, for example, always end up in the trash, even though they can be so useful when you want to keep your children entertained. What are some nice ideas for crafting with egg cartons for fall?
A bit of glue, a bit of paint and perhaps one or two additional craft materials and you can make cool autumn motifs and figures yourself that the children are guaranteed to be very happy about. So instead of throwing away every egg carton, collect several and get really creative!
Crafting with egg cartons for autumn – autumn craft ideas for children
What can you make out of egg carton? Whether mushrooms, animals or simply colorfully painted, not only is the crafting fun with the following projects, the results are also fun!
Make your own fun mushrooms from egg cartons at the beginning of autumn
Fall season is mushroom season and that's why egg carton mushrooms are a cool idea to spend an afternoon crafting. And you really don't need much! The finished onesYou can use mushrooms as fall decorationsUse for the beds in the garden, for the balcony boxes or the flower pots indoors. Here's how you can make them with egg carton for fall:
Variant 1:
- Egg shank
- Acrylic paints and brushes (choose typical mushroom colors)
- branches
- Hot glue
- Scissors
How to make mushrooms with egg boxes:
- From cardboard, cut off the pointed elements (those that are between the cups).
- Then you can paint the egg carton. Choose colors you know from mushrooms (for example, brown for porcini mushrooms, yellow for chanterelles, and red with white dots for fly agarics).
- Once the paints are dry, add hot glue to either end of a branch and insert it into the “mushroom caps.”
- Once the glue has dried, the flower plugs are ready and can be used for decoration.
Variant 2:
- Owner's card
- red and white/beige acrylic paint
- Googly eyes
- Paper dots from the hole punch
- Glue, scissors, black felt-tip pen
How to make these mushrooms with children:
- You will need one of the cardboard tips and a cup per mushroom. So cut these off and on.
- Paint the cups red and the tips white or a light beige tone.
- While the colors are drying, you or the children can punch out a few white dots with the hole punch.
- Glue the mushroom hat to the stem and the dots to the hat.
- Attach the googly eyes and draw a mouth.
- You can also make porcini and other mushrooms this way, simply by using other colors.
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A small forest landscape in a box
You can create a cute forest landscape with egg carton for autumn without any cutting. So simple, it makes a wonderful fall craft project with toddlers.
- Egg carton
- Acrylic paints
- Pipe cleaners in autumn colors
- additional decorations such as leaves (real/wooden/punched/self-cut), mushrooms, acorns, maple seeds, etc.
Get started right away:
- Paint the intact cardboard in matching colors. The purpose is to imitate a forest, so colors like green, brown, beige, maybe some blue (for a body of water) and similar natural colors are ideal.
- It doesn't have to be a work of art. Different splashes of color that merge into one another until the entire box is covered are completely sufficient and suitable for children.
- If there are no holes in the tips of the egg carton, poke some yourself using a sharp pencil or scissors, for example.
- Insert pipe cleaners into the holes and bend them to mimic treetops.
- Then you can design the trees with the selected materials.
A few more fall ideas using pipe cleanerscan be found here.
Make a pumpkin wreath with egg carton for fall
Or how about you have oneMake a cool pumpkin wreathin September or October? In addition to several egg boxes, you will also need a paper plate to serve as a base for this fun wreath. You can also cut a ring out of cardboard.
- Egg cartons (you need 18 cups total for a standard paper plate)
- paper plate
- orange and green acrylic paint and brushes
- Scissors and glue
- green pipe cleaners
A few more fall ideas with paper platescan be found here.
How to make fall decorations with egg cardboard:
- Cut out the edge of the plate and the cups from the cardboard.
- Paint the elements orange and one of the cups green and let them dry.
- Once the paints have dried, you can arrange the cups on the ring and glue them in place. Don't forget the green one because attach it upside down! This will be the pumpkin stem.
- Form pipe cleaners into two leaves and glue them into the green cardboard cup. Complete!
Crafting with egg carton for fall is a fun thing to do because the material provides the perfect basis for super easy crafts that even the little ones can take part in. Whether just for fun or to make cute decorations, the boxes are definitely worth keeping.
Also read:Make your own autumn wreaths with fruit, paper or felt
