This spanned out to be a two day project for us. We painted everything one day and let it dry completely overnight. Then we finished assembling it the next day. It is now the centerpiece on our kitchen table and every time I walk by it, it is greeted with a cheery smile! I love Spring!
HOW TO MAKE A RAINBOW GARDEN CRAFT
Supplies you will need:
-an empty Egg carton (we used one for 18 eggs)
-plastic fruit cups (we used 9)
-colorful paint
-large wooden craft sticks
-large pom-poms
-green construction paper
-green Easter grass (we used the paper kind)
-craft knife (for adult use only)
-glue
Directions:
1. Start by painting the inside of your fruit cups all of the colors of the rainbow (No need to paint the outside). We threw in some pink and a couple different shades of blue as well. Also, paint your wooden craft sticks green and the bottom of your egg carton brown. We used acrylic paint. Let the paint dry completely.
2. Affix the bottom of the fruit cups to the wooden sticks. You can use tacky glue or school glue but since we are inpatient around this house, we used a hot glue gun.
3. While you have the hot glue gun out, glue a large pom-pom in the center of each cup. Try to use a variety of different colors instead of just yellow. I let my kids choose the colors and place them inside the cups once I had put some hot glue in them. Then my kids cut some stems out of green paper and glued them onto the stems with school glue.
4. In order to poke the flowers into the egg carton, an adult will have to use a craft knife to cut a small slit in the middle of each egg carton section. You won’t be able to place a flower in each section because they will be too crowded, so scatter them out over the egg carton.
5. Now you can poke all of the flowers into the egg carton. Last, we diluted some school glue with a little bit of water and used a paint brush to paint it all over the egg carton. Then spread the green Easter Grass all over the egg carton.
You might also enjoy these crafts:
- Cupcake Liner Rainbow Flowers
- Preschool Flower Dice Game
- Paper Bag Butterfly Craft
- Tissue Paper Ladybug Craft
- Flower Garden Art
Lori says
March 21, 2012 at 10:22 PMthese are the cutest!
Rachel Kaylynn says
March 21, 2012 at 10:42 PMThis turned out really cute, totally worth a cupboard full of fruit cups 🙂
Deceptively Educational says
March 21, 2012 at 11:18 PMI love this project! And I think your husband and mine could probably form a support group for wives who can't throw stuff away because they're craft obsessed. I finally had to let my husband throw out the Bounce dryer sheet boxes I was saving. (Drats! Inspiration didn't hit before he discovered them.) 🙂
Jamy says
March 21, 2012 at 11:25 PMAHHHHHH!!! This is FANTASTIC!
Veronica and Daniel says
March 21, 2012 at 11:34 PMTHESE ARE AWESOME! I am putting fruit cups on my grocery list so I can make some too 🙂
Growing a Jeweled Rose says
March 22, 2012 at 2:40 AMThese are too cute!! I have been looking for a way to use my fruit cups. Great idea!
An Irish Italian Blessing says
March 22, 2012 at 4:45 PMI love these! What a great idea, so crafty. I'm your newest follower from the Mingle hop 🙂
Kristina says
March 24, 2012 at 2:48 AMSo creative!! I love your fruit cup creation!!
Mama Jodi says
March 24, 2012 at 6:23 AMWhat a clever craft. So much fun!
JDaniel4's Mom says
March 24, 2012 at 11:57 AMI really love this project! I have a lot of those cups too. My husband has the same issue with my upcycling.
Carolyn @ Mama's Little Muse says
March 24, 2012 at 10:44 PMThis is ADORABLE! On April 2nd, TinkerLab is having a Linky Challenge using egg cartons and I have been racking (sp?) my brain trying to come up with something different and unique. Hopefully in the next few days I come up with SOMETHING! Erg! But I hope you link up on her site though. It will be fun! I love that this craft is done mostly with recycled materials! Good job! 🙂 Will have to do it with my son!
Andrea says
March 25, 2012 at 1:58 AMClever idea! Looking forward to trying it. And getting the book from the library, too!
Andrea
MyHomeschoolTale.blogspot.com
The Monko says
March 25, 2012 at 6:54 PMooooh these are so pretty. Lovely spring idea
Kelly @ Here Comes the Sun says
March 26, 2012 at 3:48 AMBeautiful craft, as always. Thanks for sharing at Fabulous Friday.
Candy Girl says
March 26, 2012 at 9:01 PMWhat a fabulous way to reuse fruit cups! Thank you for linking it to the Rainbow Connection!
Carrie says
March 29, 2012 at 6:51 PMSo cute!! I love it! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday! I hope you will share again this week with us!
MiaB says
March 31, 2012 at 1:27 PMThis project is way too cute!! Love it and love all the creative things you do in your blog 🙂
Charlene says
April 2, 2012 at 5:10 AMWow, this is so cute – love it! I would smile every time I walked past it too. Thanks for sharing with Hey Mom, Look What I Did on Adventures In Mommy Land…hope to see you again soon!
Crafty Mischief says
April 3, 2012 at 3:49 AMToo cute! It never occurred to me to try crafting with fruit cups! I'll have to try it. My kids will love this! Thanks for sharing!
Janet S says
April 15, 2012 at 9:22 PMI love this idea! I would like to try it our in my class. I did do a test flower but the paint didn't stick!! What kind of paint did you use? My next attempt will be to add glue to the paint. Thanks for posting this great idea.
Rachel@I Heart Crafty Things says
April 17, 2012 at 7:50 PM@Janet S Janet, we used two coats of acrylic paint on the fruit cups. Ours seemed to stay intact pretty well. We used this same technique for our polar bear mask and I did notice some paint chipped off after the kids played with them endlessly for an entire day, but the majority of it stayed on the cup.Hope this is helpful and I hope your class enjoys this craft!
🙂
Love and Lollipops says
April 23, 2012 at 4:55 AMHi Rachel,
Thanks for the lovely comments! I just spotted this and thought – that could be done with bottle tops too (hehe). Love the fruit cups – we don't have those over here, I don't think.
Take care,
Georgia
Shari Vail says
April 28, 2014 at 12:12 PMi think we will try doing this with plastic eggs left over from Easter for my 3 year old grandson.