On a rainy afternoon recently I went looking for inspiration for a quick craft for the boys. We’d been stuck inside, again, and they were bored! I had several egg boxes, so I decided to look for some ideas for egg box crafts.
I found a picture of a caterpillar which looked fun; and the boys liked it; so we decided to give it a go!
You will need:
Egg box (we used a 12 egg carton)
Scissors
Paint and brushes
Craft glue
Stickers, foam shapes, pom poms, googly eyes etc.
First of all you need to cut a caterpillar shaped strip of egg box. This is a job for an adult as cutting the egg box is quite tricky. As we used a 12 egg carton, our caterpillars had six segments each.
Once you have your basic shape you can start to decorate. The boys painted theirs first. The 7yo went for a red body and an orange face while the 5yo painted his orange and yellow with a blue face :)
Once the paint was dry, the boys decorated them using foam shapes. The 5yo used mini pom poms and googly eyes to make his caterpillars face, and asked me to draw a smiley mouth for him. The 7yo stuck googly eyes straight on to his, along with a foam smiley mouth sticker from another craft kit!
The finished caterpillars look really fun, and making them was a good distraction on another wet afternoon!
I love how colourful they look! This could be a fun project for my toddler too, but it’s hard for us to find paper egg cartons here. #pintorials
You could probably do it with the plastic ones, although the edges might be a bit sharp. You’d just need to use a good paint to cover the plastic x
I adore these. My youngest is never happier than when she is gluing googly eyes and pompoms onto anything she can get her hands on, pinning for a rainy day #tuesdaytutorials
Thanks Louisa, my 5yo loves doing that too :)
Wow I love these, they are amazing. Such a cute and clever idea. My biggest daughter would love to make these. x
Thank you, both boys enjoyed this one, although the 5yo spent far longer decorating his :)
I love these! What a great idea. I struggle to find age appropriate things like this as M is two – but this looks fab. Thanks for sharing! X
Thank you. I find age two tricky as well, it’s much harder to find things the wee girl can really join in with x
This is really cute! I have most of these things around the house, too!
Thank you! We always have egg boxes :) Thinking about what we can try next…
Oh this looks fun! I remember my son doing this in the library and he loves his caterpillar. I said ill replace it but forgot to .. now i remembered =P #LetKidsBeKids
Thanks, it was good fun and I think they look pretty cute :) Easy too!
These look great (and huge fun to make), but MAN, you guys eat a lotta eggs! ;)
Thanks for sharing at #Pintorials
We do eat a lot of eggs! Combination of three kids who love scrambled eggs and me doing a lot of baking :)
Love this! And as an avid baker I always have lots of egg boxes lying around… :).
Your boys look like they take real pride in their art – brilliant!
#LetKidsBeKids
Thanks, they really do enjoy arts and crafts, which is good because I love doing them :)
They look fab. We made egg box caterpillars a while ago, which we enjoyed. I love the colours of yours. Your boys look like they are enjoying it too.
Thanks for linking #LetKidsBeKids
They did enjoy it, I like crafts that they can largely do themselves, they enjoy them much more x
Wow they look so cool, I would have never have thought to use egg boxes to make caterpillars x amazing and great fun x
Thanks, really easy and good fun!
Such a great idea and so simple #letkidsbekids
Thank you, they both really enjoyed it x
Great caterpillar and it looks like you all had super fun. Lovely photos :) #letkidsbekids
Thanks, it was good fun :)
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Lovely colourful caterpillars! Looks like brilliant crafty fun x
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Thank you :)
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Lucas says – These are awesome and look VERY messy to make – I like that!!!!
Thanks for linking to #minicreations
You should try them, great fun and plenty of opportunity for mess :)