Peep, peep! Easter Crafting with an Egg Carton

🎂 3 + years ⏱️ 20 min 📍 Everywhere ⭐ easy

Here, you'll turn a regular six-egg carton into a cute chick with colorful eggs and lots of spring joy. The chick isn't made from a finished picture but from small, self-cut pieces. It's a great exercise for cutting. So if you want to practice a bit more, you can really get started here. The egg carton has space for little Easter surprises. A colorful egg? A chocolate bunny? Maybe self-painted eggs or little messages for mom, dad, grandma, or grandpa? Crafting is more than just crafting. It's thinking, feeling, planning, experimenting. And sometimes a little giggle when the beak is crooked or the chick looks like a little whirlwind. So, grab the egg carton! Let your chick hatch!

What you'll need

6-egg carton
Orange and yellow construction paper
Scissors
Yellow feathers
Black felt tip pen or googly eyes
Colorful Easter eggs or other items
Glue stick

How it works

Grab an empty six-egg carton. So, a carton for six eggs. Today, we are only focusing on the outside of the lid; this will be your crafting area.
Now you need yellow and orange paper. Maybe you can find some scraps from old craft papers. Take the scissors and cut out small yellow pieces. Round, square, short, you decide. They shouldn't be too big so you can glue them on easily.
Now it's time for the glue. Spread glue on the area where the chick will sit. Then stick on the pieces one by one.
Cut out a small beak from the orange paper; a triangle will do. Then two small feet that peek out from under the chick.
Glue a small feather on each side of the body as wings. You can also use paper if you don't have feathers. Now you just need the eyes. Maybe you have googly eyes. If not, just take a black felt tip pen and draw two dots for eyes.
Now look around. Do you have some colorful Easter eggs? Small candies? Maybe you want to add some Easter grass or straw? You can also include little notes with greetings, wishes, or a joke. And then: Gift it, place it in the window, or just enjoy it yourself.