DISCOVER. Spring Flowers

Saturday, 12 November 2016

Spring = flowers! The girls will especially love this activity. Get artsy and crafty with these spring flowers made from egg cartons. You can use leftover beads and paints and whatever else lying around the house. Get creative! Click here for the original blog story.

What you need:

- Egg carton (paper egg carton)
- Paint  paint brush
- Assorted beads
- Glue gun
- Cereal box (empty)
- Green construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- String 

1. Dismantle the egg carton; cut the lid off, cut the egg holder side into individual sections.

2. With each individual section, cut 2/3 of the way down the sides in four spots.

3. Fold the "petals" down, creating 4 petals

4. Load up a plate as your artist palette Hot tip: for easy clean up, cover your plate with plastic wrap

5. Paint the flower as you like, set aside to dry.

6. Heat up glue gun and gather up the beads.

7. Put a drop of glue inside the flower, place selected beads into the glue.

8. To make the flower base, where you will adhere your flowers, take the cereal box and cut out the shape of base you would like, we made an oval.

9. Trace this shape onto the green construction paper, cut out the construction paper and adhere the construction paper to the cereal box cut out…base is done. Alternately, paint the cereal box green…but this might warp the box if the paint is too wet.

10. When all flowers are dry and the base is complete, using the glue gun adhere flowers to the base

11. Poke a hole into the top of your base and feed string (or ribbon, or pipe cleaner) through the hole

12. Hang your beautiful egg carton flowers on your front door for all to see.