How to Make Egg Carton Flowers
Have fun making these bright and colourful egg carton flowers! They're the perfect spring craft for kids and they look super cute on display.
Yield: 1 egg carton flower
Cost: $1
Materials
- Egg carton
- Multi-surface acrylic paint (or regular acrylic)
- Green straw(s)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Cut the egg carton pieces
- Use a craft knife to cut out 2 "cone" sections of an egg carton. This is the piece separating the cups where the eggs sit.
- With scissors, cut off the "corners" of each cup, separating the "petals".
- Then clean up the edges of each petal, trimming them down so they're flat on the end.
- Here's what your flower pieces should look like.
Step 3: Paint the flower
- Paint the inside and outside of both pieces whatever colour you'd like your flower to be. Allow to dry.
- Dot a generous amount of yellow paint on the bottom inside of one piece. This will be the flower's center. Again, allow to dry.
Step 4: Put the flower together
- Pick up the flower piece without the yellow. This is the bottom part of the flower.Press the petals down and out to open the flower.
- Add a generous amount of hot glue to the center of this piece.
- Place the second flower section inside the first, setting it so the petals are in-between the other ones.
- Bend back the petals on this section too, so the whole flower is opened up.
Step 5: Add a stem
- For the flower's stem we'll be using a green paper straw.
- Use a craft knife (or scissors) to cut a cross into one end of the straw, going about 1/2 inch down.
- Bend the ends of the straw back. You should have 4 relatively even sections, one in each direction.
- Add a small dot of hot glue to each section.
- Attach the stem to the bottom of the flower. Hold it in place until the glue is dry and it stays on its own.
- Your egg carton flower is complete!
- Have fun making a bouquet of flowers in all your favourite shades!And keep reading below for instructions on how to make the smaller flower.
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Notes
Looking to use the rest of your egg carton? Try these fun crafts!
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