Making an egg box animal is a fun, simple, indoor craft. Let your imagination run wild with what you create – we have two examples for you but don’t let that limit the creatures that you come up with!
What you will need:
- A clean, empty egg box
- Paints – acrylic works well
- Paintbrushes
- Water
- Scissors
- Pipe cleaners
- Googly eyes (optional)
- A black pen
- A pencil
- Tape (double sided is useful)
How to make your animals:
Crab:
- Cut out a section of the egg box.
- Paint the egg box section in red paint and leave to dry.
- Cut out eight short pieces of orange pipe cleaner and three long pieces.
- Using the pencil, carefully make two holes in the top of the egg box section.
- Carefully thread one of the longer pipe cleaner pieces through these holes – these are the eye stalks.
- Stick the googly eyes onto the eye stalks. If you don’t have googly eyes, simply cut out some small paper circles, and add a black dot for the pupils. Stick these on to the pipe cleaners.
- Twist the remaining two long pipe cleaner pieces together.
- Using the pencil, carefully make two holes – one on each side of the egg box section.
- Thread the twisted pipe cleaners through these two holes – these are the claws.
- Stick the shorter pipe cleaner pieces to tape – sticky sided is helpful but not essential. Then stick them to the underside of the egg box section, so that they poke out of the sides – these are the legs.
- Add a smile using the black pen – your crab is ready to scuttle about!
Ladybird:
- Cut out a section of the egg box.
- Paint the egg box section in red paint and leave to dry.
- Using a pencil, carefully make two holes in the top of the egg box section.
- Thread a black pipe cleaner through these holes – this makes the ladybird’s antennae.
- Paint another piece of the egg box in black paint and leave to dry.
- Add black spots to each side of the egg box section.
- Once dry, stick the black piece onto the front of the egg box section – this is the ladybird’s head.
- Add googly eyes, or paper circles using black pen as the pupils if you do not have these.
- Your ladybird is finished!
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