Holiday Fun - Egg-cellent Egg Boxes!
Date: 7th Apr 2020 @ 9:37am
We loved seeing your natural art yesterday. Today's Holiday Fun idea involves using up old egg boxes! Tweet us any photos or email them to nbrown@cliffordallsaints.sheffield.sch.uk,
Egg-streme Bugs
What You'll Need: 1 egg carton; paint (red, green, black); paintbrushes; glue; googly eyes; pipe cleaners (black and brown); white tissue paper; scissors; markers; tissue paper OR you can use all sorts of natural bits and pieces from outside
Make It: Bugs can be made from one egg cup or from several cups cut in a row. Cut off the top of the carton, leaving just the bottom. Separate individual egg cups or cut two or three egg cups in a row. Paint the outside of the cups with solid colors. Paint a few individual egg cups red to create single lady bugs, paint two cups black to create beetles, or paint three cups green to make a caterpillar. Once the paint has dried, use markers to add details (such as dots and lines). Then glue two googly eyes to the front of an egg cup of each colour for the head, and cut different lengths of pipe cleaners to use for legs or antennae. Use scissors to punch holes in the cups where you want to insert the pipe cleaners. Thread the pipe cleaners and secure the ends by bending or twisting them inside the cup. You can also cut wings out of tissue paper and glue them to the finished bugs. If yo dan't have pipe cleaners, you can use twigs or sticks!
Egg-straordinary Wreath
What You'll Need: 2 egg cartons; scissors; paints; paintbrushes; small container; scrap paper; paper plate; glue; length of ribbon or wreath hanger
Make It: Cut off the two top halves of each egg carton, leaving just the bottoms. Save one top for later. Separate each of the 24 egg cups from the cartons; use scissors to trim and smooth the edges. Pick a color scheme for the wreath that correlates with the season (pastel colors for spring; foliage colors for fall).
Fill the small container with water. Place the cups on the scrap paper and paint the inside and outside with the watercolor paints, diluting the paints in water when necessary. Next, paint the inside of the egg carton top with big dabs of the same colours used to create the egg cup flowers. While the egg cups and the lid are drying, cut away the inner circle of the paper plate, leaving the outer rim, which will be the base of your wreath. Paint the base one solid colour and set aside to dry. If you dan't have a paper plate, cut a circle out of any old box made of card.
Once the cups are dry, use scissors to cut three to four evenly spaced vertical slits down the sides. Start at the outside edge of the cup and cut downward, but don't cut through the bottom of each cup. These slits form separate petals that can be gently flattened out like individual flowers. Arrange each flower along the paper plate rim and then glue each cup onto the plate until it is covered. Then, cut 24 small circles from the painted carton lid and glue each one to the centers of each flower cup. Loop a length of ribbon through the center of the wreath and secure it with a knot, or use a metal wreath hook to hang the finished wreath on the front door.