Earth Day Craft: Egg Carton Flowers

We hope you saved your egg cartons from Easter! Rescue egg cartons from the landfill by turning them into pretty flowers.

Kids will love using watercolors to paint each unique flower. When you're finished, you and your kiddo can glue the flowers to paper and use it as wall art, or you can skip the beads and use the blooms as organizers for office supplies.

What you'll need:

• Egg carton
• Scissors
• Watercolors and paintbrush
• Beads (optional)
• Glue (optional)

Instructions:

1. Cut the egg carton into sections, separating each cup.

2. Shape each cup into a flower shape. You can do this by clipping the four corners of the cup and spreading out your cup's "petals." You can also clip all the way around the cup, creating a fringe-like petal. Try out a couple of different techniques and choose your favorites.

3. Using watercolors and a paintbrush, paint each flower. Encourage kids to use as many different watercolors as they'd like for this step! Allow the flowers to dry.

4. If you'd like, use glue to apply beads to the center of each flower. Add as many (or as few) beads as you'd like. (If you're using the egg carton flowers as tiny organizers, you'll probably want to skip this step.)

Photo credit: Blue Pulp Egg Carton via Amazon