Egg Carton Flower and Photo Project for Girls

If you're like most people you have leftover vases from previous special occasions. Let your girls have a couple of these vases to make a unique flower and photo display that's fun and whimsical. Not only is the project ultra-easy, but in the end, it's a fabulous decor creation for her room or another area of the home.

Green floral sticks can be found in any craft or discount department store. The wooden sticks are pointed at one end and squared at the other. The pointed end makes it easy to stick the homemade flower into a Styrofoam wedge inside the vase. The Styrofoam will help hold the flowers and photos in place.

Let girls cut a chunk of Styrofoam and place it inside each vase. Now they're ready to start creating fun flowers and photo flowers for it. Supplies can include sheets of craft foam, felt, stiff decorative paper, or stiffened fabric. You may also want to use pom-poms, sequin, glitter, chenille pipe cleaners, and other selections from the craft department.

Cut the individual cups from an egg carton. The carton can be Styrofoam or cardboard. Paint the cups, stamp them, use stickers to decorate them, or even decoupage fabric pieces onto the cups.

Attach the squared end of the floral stick to the egg cup by poking a hole into the cup, on one side. Glue the stick in place. You can also tape the stick to the backside of the cup. The cup should have the open end facing you with the stick glued to the flat side on the back.

Cut floral shapes from foam. Shapes can be tulips, sunflowers, and similar designs. Now cut photos into circles and glue them to the center of the foam flower shapes. If you want, you can encircle the photo with tiny brass rings, chenille pipe cleaners, or other circular objects. Attach the back of the foam to the open side of the egg cup. You can now push the pointed end of the stick into the Styrofoam block to display.

There are lots of different ways to make the photo flowers, and other flowers, for the vase. Make one large flower shape from foam, glue on a smaller cloth shape, then an even smaller paper shape. Place the photo in the center and glue to the egg cup.