Egg Carton Critters - Butterflies and Caterpillars

Egg cartons seem to build up around here, and whenever they start falling out of the craft cupboard on opening the door I decide it is time to pull out the egg carton craft kit.

Our favourite egg carton craft is trying to come up with new, crazy little critters to play with.

Today we decided that our winter windows could do with some brightening up. 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' was the most recent book we had read together, so it served as inspiration for the resulting butterflies and caterpillars that the children made.

First we painted half an egg carton green

Then we added legs, googly eyes and a smily mouth

We didn't make a cocoon for the caterpillar because the children decided that was their jobs. They then wrapped themselves up in blankets to and went to sleep. Day two (today) resulted in the butterflies emerging from their box and having their wings attached.

Our butterflies ended up with red bodies

Imogen wanted to have green and blue wings

James wanted to have plain wings so he can decorate it with stickers.

Now to make sure the glue is dry before we trying hanging them in the window. Maybe tomorrow we should make some flowers for the butterflies to land on.