Boats – An Egg Carton Craft Idea
We love easy Summer Crafts for Preschoolers! Here is a egg carton craft idea that I made almost 2 years ago with my kids… It still makes me smile! I love the idea of bring books and crafts together.And some days, when I really don’t know what to make, picking up one of Red Ted’s books really does inspire! And this is how we came to make our Egg Carton Boats.
So. Today, I brought out one of Red Ted’s older books: Tell me about TheSea, by Justine Smith. We have two books in the series and alsohave Tellme about Baby Animals. When he was a little younger hepreferred Baby Animals. Now I think he prefers The Sea. But they are bothlovely books – nice simple images with things to “do” on every page (count,find, look), some nice shiny surfaces to touch, as well as some flaps to lifttowards the end. Lovely for them. Lovely or you and a little education on theside!
Want to know how to make this lovely craft? Hop over to Red Ted Art today! More great Summer Crafts for Preschoolers here!!
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These are too adorable for words! I’d love to share this tutorial on AllFreeKidsCrafts.com, linking to your project and directing readers back to your blog for the tutorial. Let me know what you think!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Kelly Spence, Editor
AllFreeKidsCrafts.com
Perfect, thanks!
oh my gosh, how little is Red Ted ? Very very cute!
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I know I know!!!!! 🙂 This is 2.5 years ago!!!
Those are really, really cute. I know that my preschooler would have a blast playing with them.
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I love these! I just so happen to have egg cartons stashed away. This very well might be what we do tomorrow! Thanks for the idea.
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PERFECT! Have fun.
They look lovely.We will make these for my daughter’s homework 🙂
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Yes they are super cute and do look relatively simple to make. However, it seems to be that this is a craft activity! I really must protest as this is supposed to be your lying back and relaxing blog isn’t it!?!
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You are a funny lady!! And yes it is… but this is done 2 years ago, as a guest post on another site.. and I thought Life At The Zoo would like it too. Very little work was involved.. just some HTML code cutting and pasting 🙂
What a great idea! Thank you for sharing!
How did you make the little wooden people (boat passengers)? They are adorable! And my daughter would absolutely love them.
Oh those are shop bought ones, sorry!
That’s OK. 🙂 Thank you.
Hello,
I hope all is well! My name is Lauren and I am a contributing writer for Care.com, a site that helps connect families and caregivers. As part of our service we also offer tons of free articles and resources for a kid-friendly audience.
I wanted to let you know that we have featured your Egg Carton Sail Boat (https://lifeatthezoo.com/2012/09/egg-carton-craft-ideas-boats/) in our latest article on Summer Crafts for Kids! We absolutely love your work and have linked back to your site from our piece. You can see it here: http://www.care.com/child-care-62-summer-crafts-for-kids-p1017-q30457360.html
We will be promoting the article through our social channels and we would love for you to share it with your blog and/or social followers as well!
Thanks so much!
Best,
Lauren
Hi
Just wanted to say you have a great site and some really nice crafts which I wanted to publicise among the homeschooling community.
I’ve linked to you egg carton sailboat page here
http://www.homeschool-activities.com/recycled-crafts.html
as it fits very well with some recycling kids projects we are doing – including my daughter’s junk robot!
Best wishes
Sonya
Hi
Your Egg Carton boat craft has been featured in Kids Nation magazine edition 10 (March/April 2016).
Here is the link to the magazine:
https://issuu.com/kidsnationmag/docs/marapr2016
I hope you like it!
awww thanks!
What a great craft! Will have to try it out with my kids and it´d also be great for my classes!Thanks for sharing!
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