How to Make Egg Carton Flowers – Easy Egg Carton Crafts

For a while now I’m piling up egg carton boxes, planning to do lots of great egg carton crafts, but never finding the time to do so. So when Victoria wanted to make some flowers, it was a perfect occasion to use my “stock” and make some egg carton flowers with the kids.

I overheard Victoria saying to a friend of hers: “My mommy likes to do crafts” … as an explanation to why the cupboard was full of weird-looking pieces of painted egg carton getting dried. I guess she is right. Sometimes I get carried away and our living room – which is where we do most of the crafts – looks a bit like out of this world. Luckily I have an understanding husband who puts up with my crafty, arty and sometimes messy ideas. But OK…let’s get back to the task at hand: the egg carton flowers.

What you need to make egg carton flowers:

• Some egg carton boxes; the more boxes, the more egg carton flowers you can make (duh!)
• Scissors or utility knife
• A bunch of pipe cleaners (for the stalks)
• Optional for decoration – paint & brushes, glitter and if you want to get wild you can also add some scented essence to the paint and have some flowers that actually smell 🙂

First, using the utility knife I cut out the flower shape from the egg carton boxes and then made a whole in the middle to make space for the stalks (pipe cleaners). Then I slide the pipe cleaners through the hole in the middle and our flowers were ready.

Side note: The egg carton boxes come in different shapes and sizes, and depending on the kind you have you might need to tweak a bit the process of making your egg carton flowers.

So far Victoria was only partially happy with her flowers. I did do all the cutting myself and she only had to add the pipe cleaners – which I guess was not engaging enough for her. So she decided that her egg carton flowers need some color and glitter. So we took out our glitter, paint and brushes and got to business.

As soon as Victoria started to paint, Lukas announced that he’d like to join the painting party.

… and Elena of course would not have it that she’s the only one to miss the fun, so she also joined.

And when Lukas decided to take a break I took the opportunity to also join the painting party.

Towards the end it did get a bit messy with all 3 kids splashing around with their brushes (and fingers) full with paint, but it was fun!

And the result looked good, even if the egg carton flowers took some hours to dry in the living room – which got Victoria to make the “My mommy likes to do crafts” comment towards her friend.

This was fun, so we will definitely do some more egg carton crafts in the future!

This post was also shared on Kidsinthkitchen and Small Footprint Family