When coming up with craft ideas for everyone stuck at home, I wanted to make sure the projects only called for materials that most people would already have around the house. I sure wouldn’t want you making a special trip to the store. One thing I figured pretty much everybody had was some empty egg cartons. With all the home baking I’m doing, I’ve been going through a dozen eggs a week.
One of my favorite egg carton crafts is handmade flowers. The egg compartments transform into the petals, and strips of the lid become the stems. You can paint the flowers if you wish, but some of you might not have paint or brushes right now, so I wanted to show you how beautiful they are with the natural color of the cartons.
I really love this project because while it’s great for kids, it’s so fun and relaxing for adults as well. Are you crafting these days? I hope you are. It’s so good for the soul when you can create beauty from something that would otherwise be destined for the trash bin.
What you’ll need:
Egg carton
Scissors
Glue
Button
1. Cut apart the 12 individual compartments of the egg carton. Each flower uses three compartments, so you can make four flowers out of one carton.
2. Cut a petal shape out of the four sides of each compartment, keeping the center intact. Carve out one compartment with large petals, one with medium petals and one with small. Don’t worry about making perfect petals — they look better when they’re uneven.
3. Stack the medium petals on top of the large ones and glue them in place. Then position the small petals on the medium ones and glue them together.
4. Glue a button on top of the layer with the smallest petals. This step is optional, but it creates a cute detail on the flower. And you probably have some odd buttons lying around the house.
5. From the lid of the egg carton, cut strips that are about a half inch wide. These are the flower stems.
6. Glue the strips to the back of the flowers. For stems, you can also use skewers, popsicle sticks and actual twigs, but I love that we’re making use of so much of the egg carton.
