Bluebells Egg Carton Flower

Craft for Kids

Materials for Egg Carton Flowers
 Empty egg carton
 Scissors
 Tempera paint  and paintbrush (This is my favorite tempera paint !)
 Yellow and green construction paper
 Glue
 

Directions for Egg Carton Flowers

1. Cut your egg carton apart into segments. Trim the edges to make them smooth
and wavy.

 
2. Paint your egg carton pieces the color of bluebells. (We mixed some turquoise
and violet to make our final color.) Let the paint dry completely.

3. To make the centers of the flowers, cut some thin strips of yellow construction
paper. Wrap them around a pencil or other round item to make them spiral shaped.

 
 

4. Glue the yellow spiral to the center of the flower.

 
 

5. Once the glue has dried, you can trim the yellow centers to the correct height
and manipulate them a bit to get them to look the way you want.

 
 

6. Cut out a green stem and some green leaves from your green construction
paper and glue them onto your paper.

 
 

7. Glue your flowers on the stem and leaves and let dry.

 
 

Display your final project!

 

Tips
 Older children can cut their own egg carton segments, but I would have an
adult do it for younger children. These scissors  are my favorite adult scissors
for projects like this!
 If you don’t have any real bluebells for the kids to observe, print out some
pictures of them or find some photographs in books. Encourage children to
look at the details of the flowers and describe how they look.
 Use the images or real flowers as inspiration when mixing your paint color.
Kids love this part!

Paint Chip Hyacinth

Oh, how I love spring bulb flowers!  Tulips and hyacinths are my favorites!

While shopping the other day I saw a these beautiful blue-purple paint chips and thought that we could
make a paint chip hyacinth!

The kids took turns punching out 1 1/2 inch circles from the paint chips with a circle punch....

....and then cut the paint chips in half.

With some bright green paint chips they cut out a stem and some leaves.
Then they started gluing their cut outs onto a white piece of cardstock.
Here are their simple and beautiful creations!
 Happy Spring!

Easy Hyacinth Paintings

April 13, 2010 by Valerie
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The hyacinths are in full bloom at our house, and to celebrate, the girls made these fun
paintings using a cork as a stamp!
I drew the stem and leaves, and the girls dipped the cork in some pink paint and stamped
away!
This project combined two of their favorite activities — painting and stamping!

Here’s how Emily’s turned out.

I can appreciate the “artistic license” Clara used to stamp hers.

Pumpkin Seed Counting Game

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I’ve been a long time fan of No Time for Flashcards, so when Allison, the author,
announced that her very first post was live on Adventures in Learning (the new PBS
Parents blog), I headed on over to check it out.  As usual, her learning activity was
creatively set up, engaging as could be, and easy to put together.  While we really
haven’t started doing activities that have specific learning outcomes in mind (we’re
more in the play and learn along the way stage), Gracen does love counting and all
sorts of games, so I decided we’d give it a shot.
 While Allison’s game was apple-themed, I decided to switch things up a little bit
based on the recent obsessed with our pumpkin play dough.  Using thick paper, I cut
out a pumpkin silhouette, a slightly smaller peach-coloured pumpkin shape to serve as
the inside of the pumpkin, a stem, and some round cards (rectangular ones probably
would have been better, but using a paper punch was easier at the time).
With the help of my little miss, I glued our pumpkin together and then created two sets
of cards – one numerals up to 12, and the other, tally marks up to 5 (Gracen’s never
seen tally marks before, so I decided to keep it fairly simple).
Then we placed our pumpkin, the mixed up stack of number cards, and a little bowl of
pumpkin seeds onto the tray I usually use to set out play invitations.

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Gracen was excited and eager to get started on her new game.
 We sat together and as she flipped a number card over, I’d ask her to tell me which
number she saw.  Then she’d dig up a little fistful of pumpkin seeds and carefully
place the same number of seeds onto the flesh of her pumpkin.  We’d count them up
together once more when she was done, then celebrate the match.
For today, we cleared off our pumpkin completely before attempting new numbers, but
in the future, we may try adding or taking away from the seeds already there in order
to match the new number.  We’ll also attempt tally marks at some point too, which
should be fun.

They are great for lots of other crafting, too! 

Read on to see how you can easily color and
scent pumpkin seeds for Fall. 
 If you like this activity please share it with friends
on Pinterest & Facebook! 

Dyeing the pumpkin seeds was easy, and all of

the colors and scents came together to capture
the season perfectly!
You can buy bags of pumpkin seeds for
this recipe or wait until you carve pumpkins, and
use those seeds. 

Coloring Pumpkin Seeds for Play

Materials
 Pumpkin Seeds
 Zip-seal Bags
 Food coloring 
 Scent
We made 5 varieties of pumpkin seeds.  All the spices we used
can be found in the pantry section of most grocery stores.

We used:

 Pumpkin pie spice to make orange pumpkin seeds.

 Apple Pie Spice to make green apple seeds.
 Clove to make yellow clove seeds.
 Cranberry extract to make red cranberry seeds.
 Coffee extract to make brown coffee seeds.

Method
 Place the desired amount of pumpkin seeds into
a zip-seal bag, using one bag for each variety
of seeds that you wish to make.  
 Add several drops of food coloring, the desired
amount of scent, and 1-2 tablespoons of water.  
 Seal the bags.
 Then, have kids mix and shake the bags until
the seeds are fully saturated in color.
 Once saturated open the bags and leave
the seeds to dry.  Drying will take roughly 2-3
hours.
 Once dry you can use the colorful pumpkin
seeds in all sorts of ways!
Playing with Colored Pumpkin
Seeds
 Add the seeds to a play bin along with tongs,
scoopers, and kitchen gadgets for some
fabulous Fall sensory play.
 Use pumpkin seeds to practice patterning,
counting, and sorting.
 Make Fall leaf trees using colorful pumpkin
seeds.
 To do this glue twigs to paper, and then use the
seeds to make the leaves.

Extend the Fun

 Use seeds to make inside-out pumpkins.

 Practice literacy skills.
 Use pumpkin seeds to practice counting.
 Use a pumpkin to grow a pumpkin!
 Make pumpkin soup.

Storage:
 Store colored pumpkin seeds in an air-tight container, and they
can be used again & again!
pumpkin week - pumpkin seeds
When you have two families over to carve pumpkins, plus your own giant pumpkin, you end up with
LOTS of pumpkin seeds. What do you do with them?
Well, we will be digging holes in our backyard (the VERY back of our backyard) and burying most of
them to try and grow another pumpkin patch next year. We did this last year too and we did actually
get a vine but it ended up not being in a great spot and was trying to climb all over our air conditioner
(not cool!) so we had to pull it out. Luckily our compost pile produced a massive pumpkin patch for us
anyway. We are hoping to grow pumpkins again next year and it would be great if they would grow
from the seeds from this year. It is a great life-cycle kind of lesson for the girls to see.
But before we do that I thought it would be fun to try out a crafting project with them. My inspiration
came from a picture that I saw on Pinterest but the link would not work so I had no idea how they
accomplished it.
We started out by drying out the seeds in the oven just a bit (low temp and only a few minutes). Then I
mixed some food coloring with vinegar, just like dyeing eggs, and dropped some seeds into each
color.
You can see that some seeds are much brighter in color than others. The mixture of vinegar and color
was not working out so great so for some of them I did just food coloring and mixed the seeds straight
in the food coloring. Those turned out much brighter.

Then we grabbed some cardstock type paper (old cracker boxes) that would be stiff enough to old a
seed mosaic.
We used regular white glue and started creating.
Our final products.
Sam's
Colorful Egg Carton Butterfly Craft
for Kids
Just finished my egg carton case this morning and thought it would be fun to make some pretty
little butterflies out of them! This can be made by kids of any age and they can choose whatever
colors they want! Super cute for a spring time art project.
Materials Needed:

o Neon paint
o Egg carton
o Scissors
o Pipe cleaner
o Paintbrush

Start by cutting a section of an egg carton that has 4 cups. Trim off the sides so they are
smoother and cut the edges so it goes inward.
Take one pipe cleaner and wrap it around the bottom and twist at the top to make butterfly
antennas. Choose 3-4 neon colored paints and do rings around each egg carton cup.
Take another paintbrush and pull it down through each ring of colors. It makes this awesome tie
dye effect! Let dry and you’re done!

Here’s what it looked like the next day…

Make a pretty little beaded butterfly craft for Spring! This is a great art project for kids to make as
they can get really creative! We chose bright neon colors but you can use any.
Materials Needed:

o 2 pipe cleaners
o Beads
o 2 googly eyes
o Peg or clothespin
o Paint
o Scissors/Hot glue
Start by threading beads onto two pipe cleaners then bend them into heart shapes. Twist the
ends so they won’t come undone. Paint the peg with neon orange and stick on the two eyes.
Once the paint is dry, take a hot glue gun and attach both pipe cleaners to the peg. Attach some
antennas and add two beads.

 Q-tips cotton swabs

 green and yellow paint
 blue and green cardstock paper (and whatever colors
you’d like to use for your flowers)
 paintbrush
 1 1/2-inch scallop circle punch  (optional)
 scissors
 glue
Directions:
1. Start by painting one of the q-tip tips yellow and the stick
of the q-tip green. We simply rolled the tip in yellow paint to
cover it and then used a paintbrush to paint the sticks. Set
them aside to dry completely. (Note: We ended up cutting
one of the tops off of our q-tips but I don’t think it’s
completely necessary.)

2. Use your 1.5″ scallop circle punch to cut out several

flowers in different colors. Use your scissors to cut small slits
all around the circle and then bend some of them upwards to
look like flower petals.

3. Cut out a strip of green cardstock paper for grass, and cut
small slits all along the top of it for grass.
 

4. Glue your flowers onto your blue cardstock paper. Then

glue your q-tips onto the flowers, with the yellow tip being in
the center of the flower.

 
 

5. Finish your q-tip flowers craft by gluing your green grass at

the bottom of your paper. The q-tips and flowers pop off the
page and look so vibrant and colorful.

 
 

Looking for some fun spring books to couple this pretty

flower craft with? One of our favorite for spring is Planting a
Rainbow by Lois Ehlert . You might also like Counting in the
Garden by Kim Parker  and The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle .

PAPER BOWL LADYBUG CRAFT

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Do you love ladybugs as much as we do? Spring is a perfect time to
make ladybug crafts and learn all about bugs since they are all starting
to emerge with the temperatures getting warmer.
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I’ve always thought it would be fun to have a pet turtle. One of my
neighbors has a huge pond in her backyard and she has several pet
turtles that live in it.

She often posts pictures on Facebook about what they are up to and I
don’t know why, but I think it’s the coolest thing ever. We aren’t
ready for a pet turtle anytime soon, so we decided to do the next best
thing, make a turtle craft.

This paper bowl turtle craft for kids is probably one of the simplest
crafts ever to make and it’s just simply cute.

It works great for a fun summer kids craft and there are some fun kids
books you can pair with it (look for some recommendations at the
bottom of this post).
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HOW TO MAKE A PAPER BOWL
TURTLE CRAFT
SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR THIS TURTLE
CRAFT
– small paper bowl
– brown paint
– paintbrush
– green cardstock paper
– green and gold (or tan) tissue paper
– googly eyes
– glue

DIRECTIONS FOR THIS PAPER BOWL

TURTLE
1. Start by painting the bottom of your paper bowl with your brown paint. Let it dry
completely.

2. When your bowl is finished drying, cut out 4 legs, a head and a tail from your
green cardstock paper. Glue them onto your painted paper bowl.
3. Cut your green and gold (or tan) tissue paper into small squares. Cover your bowl
with school glue and glue the squares all over your bowl to make a turtle shell. We
used gold tissue paper because we didn’t have any tan but I actually love the way it
looks.

4. Finish your paper bowl turtle craft by gluing your googly eyes onto the turtle face.
Looking for some fun turtle books to go along with this craft? Try one of these:
– Turtles in my Sandbox by Jennifer Curtis
– Franklin’s Neighborhood by Paulette Bourgeois (or any in the Franklin book series)
– Turtle Splash! Countdown at the Pond by Cathryn Falwell
– Mossy by Jan Brett (Beautiful illustrations!)

Kids are sure to love this paper bowl ladybug craft that we are

sharing with you today. It is super duper cute, all 360 degrees of it,
and it’s pretty simple to make!

So go grab some supplies and get ready for some fun spring ladybug
crafting!
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HOW TO MAKE A PAPER BOWL
LADYBUG CRAFT
SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR THIS LADYBUG
CRAFT
– small paper bowl
– red acrylic paint
– paintbrush
– black cardstock paper
– 2½ inch circle punch & 1-inch circle punch (optional)
– black pipe cleaner
– googly eyes
– which chalk maker (or crayon)
– black permanent marker
– scissors
– glue

DIRECTIONS FOR THIS LADYBUG PAPER

BOWL CRAFT
1. Start by painting the bottom of your paper bowl with your red acrylic paint. Set it
aside to dry completely.

2. While your paper bowl dries, cut out a 2½-inch black circle for your ladybug head,
several 1-inch black circles for ladybug spots, and six black ladybug legs. Also, cut
your black pipe cleaner in half.
3. When your paint is finished drying, draw a line down the middle of your bowl to
separate the ladybug wings. Glue your black spots onto your ladybug wings and
around your paper bowl. Poke two small holes in the bowl (where you want to put
your antennae) and thread your black pipe cleaner in one hole and out the other.
Bend them together and bend the ends to make antennae.
4. Glue your ladybug legs under the outside rim of the paper bowl. Then glue your 2
1/2-inch black circle in front of your antennae for the ladybug face.

5. Finish your paper bowl ladybug craft by gluing on your googly eyes and drawing
on a smile with your white chalk marker or a white crayon.