Get ready for spring with this super cute Egg Carton Caterpillars using egg cartons. Not only are they super cute, but they can bee educational too!
My kids love egg carton crafts. There are so many fun things you can do with them. This time, we decided to make something spring-themed and make our very own egg carton caterpillars! Our caterpillars were so easy to make, and they turned out so cute! We could hardly believe that these caterpillars were once egg cartons.
If you wanted to make this craft more educational, arrange your body pieces in rainbow order, or learn about patterns while making your caterpillars.
Egg Carton Caterpillars
These adorable little creatures will make any spring day brighter and happier.
What you’ll need to make egg carton caterpillars:
- Egg cartons (we like to use cardboard)
- Washable paint
- Paintbrushes
- A large black pom pom (or you could use another color)
- Black pipe cleaners
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Googly eyes
First, trim out your egg cups. We cut ours down so that all the attachments to the other cups were gone and we were just left with a little bowl of egg cup. We used six cups for our caterpillar, but you can use as many or as few as you like.
Paint the cups with bright colors. We decided to go almost full rainbow, but we mixed up the colors a bit.
While the paint is drying, make the caterpillar head. We used a large black pom pom and gave it a pipe cleaner antenna. Googly eyes complete the face.
When the paint is dry, glue the body pieces together. We glued ours to look like it was arching its back like caterpillars do sometimes. Finally, glue the head to the body.
Put your new caterpillar in a prominent place. We put ours in a sunny window to look at and enjoy all spring long!
Have any extra egg cartons? Try this fun Egg Carton Splatter Art Flower Craft!
Butterfly Activities for Kids
Looking for more fun butterfly activities, butterfly crafts, and butterfly printables to add to your day or butterfly theme? Try these:
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- Kindergarten Butterfly Addition and Subtraction Worksheets
- Free Counting Butterflies Worksheets
- FREE Printable Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheets
- Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet Pack for kids
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- Butterfly Puzzles Printable Rhyming Games
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Butterfly Crafts
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Spring Alphabet Printables
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- Spring Alphabet Worksheets for preschoolers
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- Rainy Day Find-the-Letter Spring Worksheets
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Spring Language Arts
- Free Printable Flower rhyming words
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- Cut, Paste, and Read Spring Sight words Reader
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- free printable sight word worksheets for spring
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- Rhyming Words Spring Worksheets
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Spring Math Activities
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- Free printable kite Skip Counting Craft
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- Insect Telling Time Puzzles
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- Flower Tracing Numbers 1-30 pdf
- Spring Math Puzzles to work on counting and addition
Spring Math Activity
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- Free printable missing number worksheets
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- Printable Spring Tracing Worksheets
- Free Printable FLOWER shapes activities for kindergarten
- Vegetable counting from 1 to 10 clip cards activity
- Seeds Make 10 Addition Game
- Spring Addition Counting Clip Cards
- Kite Color Matching – free printable learning colors for toddlers game
- Free printable How to plant a seed step by step worksheet
- I Spy Farm Animals (great for visual discrimination & counting)
Spring Printables
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- Backyard Critters Insect worksheets for kindergarten
- Spring color words worksheets using do-a-dot markers
- B is for Butterfly weekly theme
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Spring Science
These science projects and spring science experiments are perfect for indoor or outdoor!
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Spring Science Worksheets
These free science printables are a grea way to learn about the parts of a plant, plant life cycles, animal life cycles, to take along as zoo field trip worksheets, and more!
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- Free Earthworm life cycle worksheet
- Nature Walk Activity Sheet
- Frog Life Cycle for Kids spinner activity
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- Free Zoo fieldtrip worksheet
- Printable Animal Habitat Game
- Insect Life Cycle printable books
Spring Crafts for Preschoolers
Your kids are going to want to try these fun springtime craft projects.
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Flower Crafts for Kids
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- Felt Board Flower Craft
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- Cute printable flower craft for mothers day
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- Fun-to-Make and lovely painted flower craft preschool
Spring Activities for Kids
- Colorful Snake Bubble Activity for kids
- Spring pasta craft for kids
- Head to the zoo with this FREE Zoo Scavenger Hunt – lots of choices for all ages!
- Make your favorite animal with one of these 100 animal crafts
- Find monthly resources such are our March Crafts for kids or our March Activities for Kids!
- Check out our April Crafts for kids or our April Activities for Kids!
- Don’t miss these May Crafts for kids or our May Activities for Kids!
- Let’s ease into summer on June 21st with these June Crafts for kids or our June Activities for Kids!
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