{"id":505,"date":"2020-04-07T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T10:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/?p=505"},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T11:09:12","slug":"some-easy-egg-box-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/some-easy-egg-box-makes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some easy egg box makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">We are still thinking about activities that can be made using recycling from round the house. If you are able to save your egg boxes there are loads of craft ideas for little ones. A quick google will find you millions. Here are a few that we\u2019ve been making this week. We started with daffodils in time for Easter and I\u2019d planned to make chicks as well\u00a0but my wee ones were much more interested in snails and turtles, and why not, they make a perfect shell! As always, how much wee ones can help will depend on their age. For older toddlers they can help you cut out but with babies you can cut out the parts yourself first and let them play with the shapes and then paint them. You can adapt these ideas for what you have at home and you can use last week\u2019s homemade paints to decorate them if you like. Children also come up with the best ideas so go with the flow of what they are interested in making. You can also adapt the decorations to whatever you have about the house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We used:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-508 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/04\/eggs-1-small-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Old egg boxes<\/li>\n<li>Water based, non-toxic paints (but you can also decorate with pens or chalks or whatever you have at home)<\/li>\n<li>scissors<\/li>\n<li>tape or pva for sticking together<\/li>\n<li>scrap coloured paper<\/li>\n<li>pipe cleaners (you can also use straws or sticks or simply stick the daffodils to a painting)<\/li>\n<li>play dough or clay if you have it<\/li>\n<li>some bits and bobs for decorating<\/li>\n<li>A daffodil for inspiration!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-506 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/04\/daffodil-instructions-small-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"554\" \/>Daffodils <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You need to cut out the tall middle cones of the egg box to make the trumpets and the egg holding sections make the petals. We cut ours into four petal shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Handily the trumpets already have a wee hole so you just need to poke a hole in the petal section and let wee ones thread in a pipe cleaner if they\u2019re big enough. Then thread on the trumpet and roll a ball in the end of the pipe cleaner so it can\u2019t pull back through. You can also add a blob of pva to keep it all together.<\/p>\n<p>And then get painting. For babies it will be easier to paint before you thread the pieces together.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have anything for a stem these also look really nice glued on to a painting. Here is an example from our neighbour.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Animals<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-515\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/04\/snail-and-turtle-instructions-small-177x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"356\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">We used the egg sections to become shells for snails and turtles. Where they were joined together there is already a handy hole for the head to pop out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">You could use some old play dough if you have any around. Roll it into a slug shape and then magically transform it into a snail with a shell. Add antennae and then paint. We did the same with a turtle adding a head, legs and tail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">You can also make the body parts from paper or card. Here we rolled up one end of a strip of paper to be the head and tail and added extra legs for the turtle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">My wee ones decided the snails needed a garden and so we went off on a tangent painting some grass and sticking on flowers cut from some of our junk mail. Delicious for the snails to eat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-507 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/04\/egg-ideas-small-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"235\" \/>Here are a couple more of our egg box creations. They make cute little nests and jazzy glasses! Have a go and see what your family come up with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are still thinking about activities that can be made using recycling from round the house. If you are able to save your egg boxes there are loads of craft ideas for little ones. A quick google will find you millions. Here are a few that we\u2019ve been making this week. We started with daffodils &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/some-easy-egg-box-makes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some easy egg box makes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-ideas-for-little-ones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}