How to make eggbox flowers
Create colourful flowers out of eggboxes in this fun craft activity that's easy for toddlers to do. Here's how
We really rate this cheerful, easy, 20-minute toddler activity, that just needs old eggboxes, buttons and lashings of small-person-applied paint.
Abi, one of MadeForMums’ brilliant crafter mums, tried this one out with her daughter Maisie, 2, and says it was a great success.
Here’s how to make eggbox flowers:
You Will Need
- Eggbox, preferably a 12-egg one
- Scissors
- Paint
- Coloured pens and decorations of your choice
- Paper straws or lolly sticks
- Sticky tape (optional)
- Buttons or pompoms
- Green tissue paper (optional)
Total time:
Plus drying time
Step 1
Cut your eggbox up into a 4-compartment flower-shaped sections. From a 12-egg box, you’ll get 3 flowers; from a 6-egg box you’ll get 1 flower. Let your child paint each flower.
Step 2
Wait for the paint to dry, then decorate the flowers with coloured pens and stickers – or any other decorations you fancy. Then turn the flowers over and make two holes near the top of each flower’s ‘prong’. Slide a paper straw or lolly stick through the hole – and secure, if needed, with sticky tape.
Step 3
Flip the flowers over again and push a button or pompon into the centre dip of each flower.
Step 4
Now you have some beautiful flowers! Once your child’s finished playing with them, you can put them in a jug – with, if you like, some green-tissue-paper ‘foliage’ – to create a homemade flower display.
