06 May 2022
From egg carton to … a bunch of flowers for mom. This is how you do it!
Yum, a nice fresh egg for breakfast or in a salad! Or use them in a farmer's cake or for the mini pancakes. On our farms you may have picked up a nice egg fresh from the chicken and eaten it. At home, most people buy their eggs in the store, packed in a cardboard egg carton. When the eggs are gone, the carton goes in the waste paper. But we think that's a shame! You can make the nicest things with egg cartons. This time Juliëtte makes a caterpillar from an old egg carton.
Make a flower for Mother's Day
On Sunday 8 May it's time: it's Mother's Day! Spoil your little one with a nice breakfast, fresh rolls, an egg and a glass of juice! How nice is it to finish breakfast with a homemade bunch of flowers. Looks great on a tray, on the dining table and the best part is, they stay good forever!
Get started! This is what you need
- Empty egg carton
- Scissors
- Paint – e.g. acrylic paint
- Brushes
- Chenille wire
- Kitchen roll
Craft time! How to make it
- Check if the egg carton is clean and if there are no feathers in it, for example. Also remove the label from the egg carton.
- Open the egg carton and turn it over. What we need is a piece of the bottom of the carton.
- Cut off the lid of the egg carton and then cut the bottom in half lengthwise. You will then get a row of 5 egg compartments.
- Then carefully cut the 5 egg compartments apart from each other. You will then get 5 separate egg compartments.
- Now we are going to trim the leaves of the flowers. Cut them apart with the scissors and make the straight cardboard pieces nice and round.
- To prevent the table you are working on from getting completely covered in paint, it is smart to put a piece of kitchen roll or an old newspaper on the table.
- Paint the 5 flowers in the colours that you like. If you want an extra beautiful flower, you can paint the inside of the flower a different colour than the outside. Tip: you can use the lid of the egg carton to put the paint in.
- Let the paint dry well, because we are now going to add stems to the flowers.
- Choose a nice colour of chenille wire for the stems of the flowers. You can make them all green, but we have now chosen a stem that matches the colour of the flower.
- Carefully make a hole at the bottom of the flower with scissors. You can ask your mum or dad to help you with this.
- Now push the chenille wire through the hole. To ‘secure’ it, you can bend the tip of the wire a little.
- Repeat this for all 5 flowers. Of course, you can also make a very large bunch of even more flowers!
- Find a nice vase or a water glass and arrange the flowers in it.
- Done! Now all that remains is to give it to your dear mother (or to your father, grandma or teacher… or just for yourself).
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