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
![Make-your-own-eggbox-flowers How to make eggbox flowers](https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/28/2020/06/Make-your-own-eggbox-flowers-21eb7a4.jpg?quality=90&resize=980,654)
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 the brilliant crafter mums in our MadeForMums Community, tried this one out with her daughter Maisie, 2, and says it was a great success.
Maisie loved the painting part – she loves getting a bit messy! – and she also really enjoyed pushing the buttons into the centre of the flowers
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Here's how to make eggbox flowers:
You will need:
- Eggbox (a big one will make more flowers)
- Scissors
- Paint
- Coloured pens and decorations of your choice
- Paper straws or lolly sticks
- Sticky tape (optional)
- Buttons or pompoms
- Glue
Step 1: Divide the eggbox and paint the sections
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Cut your eggbox up into sections of 4 'cups'. You'll get 1 section out of a 6-egg eggbox; 4 sections out of a 12-egg eggbox. Each section will make 1 flower. Let your child paint each section.
Step 2: Decorate and fix on the stalk
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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: Push a button into the centre of the petals
![eggbox-flowers-steps-5-and-6 how to make egg box flowers step 5 and 6](https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/28/2020/04/eggbox-flowers-steps-5-and-6-6255150.jpg?quality=90&fit=700,466)
Flip the flowers over again, dab a little glue into the centre dip of each flower and push a button or pompon into the dip.
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And now you're done!
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