The humble egg carton is a wonderful thing. Here are three ways to use it:
If you don’t have painting pots, an empty egg carton makes for a wonderful pallet. It’s a cheap way to distribute paint, especially if there are a lot of children.
Compartmentalise glitter, glue and craft bits and bobs for ease of distribution.
After reading Picklebums fabulous We Play… sorting post, it occurred to me to use the egg carton as a nature sorting tray. Look what we found outside our house.
Make scramble eggs tonight, have fun tomorrow.
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33 Comments
Trish
May 20, 2010 at 1:46 pmLuv your idea …at one of the schools i work at in Prep – they use egg cartons for the paint also just as u have suggested and they put the paints into bottles with squirter lids so kids can put their own paint into the egg cartons…looks like loads of fun!
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 20, 2010 at 5:26 pmYeah, it’s an idea used by many schools and groups.
Bernadette
May 20, 2010 at 2:18 pmThese are a great idea and I have a heap of egg cartons I wasn’t sure what to do with.
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 20, 2010 at 5:27 pmGreat Bernadette, now you have some ideas. My fav was the nature sorter. There’s nothing quite like going outside with kids.
Busy Brissy Mum
May 20, 2010 at 2:30 pmGood thinking Kelly! We use egg cartons for paint trays too but to turn them into sorting trays is a great idea. Might have to copy!! I also loved Kate’s We Play post.
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 20, 2010 at 5:28 pmIt was a fab activity. Thanks Kate!!!
Michelle
May 20, 2010 at 4:55 pmthe possibilities are endless! love and egg carton – love eating eggs 🙂
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 20, 2010 at 5:29 pmEggs: the all round winner!
Polly
May 20, 2010 at 10:19 pmLove the title of the post — very clever!!
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 21, 2010 at 7:10 amHA! Thanks Polly.
Debi
May 21, 2010 at 2:25 pmI love your idea to sort things from nature. My 2 year old would totally dig that! Thanks for the inspiration! 🙂
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 23, 2010 at 7:35 pmHave fun with it Debi
Katherine
May 21, 2010 at 9:05 pmLovely idea! Might have to use it on my little cousin Charlie when i next baby sit him 🙂
K xx
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 23, 2010 at 7:35 pmI think he will love it K.
Christie - Childhood 101
May 22, 2010 at 11:54 pmYou are just full of great ideas!
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 23, 2010 at 7:33 pmThank you kind lady
Kathleen
May 23, 2010 at 5:56 pmI like the idea of the nature sorting tray – a bit like those old “cabinets of curiousities”. And the flowers look really pretty nestled in it – I wonder if it could be a table centerpiece at the end of the day?
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 23, 2010 at 7:32 pmI like that idea
Melissa
May 24, 2010 at 9:44 amThat looks like great fun 🙂
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 24, 2010 at 9:11 pmYep
katepickle
May 24, 2010 at 11:51 amah the humble egg carton.. hours and hours of fun!
Kelly Be A Fun Mum
May 24, 2010 at 9:10 pmThanks for the inspiration Kate.
Meeya Wright
June 10, 2010 at 12:14 amOld post I know… 😉 Haven’t had a chance to pop on properlyfor a little while sorry :S
Love it Kell! We often make ‘people’ with all the egg cup bits that I rip apart individually. We stick on eyes and bits of felt for hair and buttons and whatever we can find! And each person represents a different person in the family. The lid of the egg carton then becomes their ‘car’ and that lasts until it all gets destroyed or the next egg carton comes around 😉
Such a shame there’s so many egg/wheat/dairy allergies around now that children can’t explore ‘reverse garbage’ type of creativity at playgroups and kinders with egg cartons, cereal boxes or yoghurt containers anymore.
xoxo
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March 12, 2011 at 11:14 amA couple of fab ladies at our play group cut it up so you had two egg parts and put some holes through the side to put in some leg pipe cleaners (3 holes each side) pop some googly eyes on the front, pain to decorate or use glitter glue what every and we made bugs. they were cute and my 2 and 4 y/o loved them 🙂
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