I am endlessly amazed by what one can do with something as simple as an egg carton. After seeing these egg carton lights, I couldn’t stop thinking about what else I could do with that lovely shape: flowers, skirts for little chenille stem dolls, ghosts.
With the approach of Halloween, I seized on the ghost concept and decided to use the pieces of an egg carton as part of a diorama.
Below you can see where cuts should be made on the egg carton for the pumpkin and ghosts, respectively.
Pumpkin:
Ghosts:
And, through a bit of serendipity, I discovered that the following cuts will leave you with little bat shapes!
Speaking of Halloween, I’ve been working on the girls’ costumes over the past couple days (leaving me waaaay behind in my blog reading). I usually work on my own projects while the kids are napping or at night while they’re in bed, but since Annabelle woke up early from her nap yesterday I decided to go ahead and finish what I had started while she watched close by. As I sat down to stitch the pieces of Charlotte’s Princess Leia hat together, Annabelle astutely asked me, "Mommy, are you going to say "uh-oh?"" She kills me. Yes, I mess up. Alot. Don’t you just love the candor or children? Toddlers are like little mirrors showing us the good, bad, and the ugly of everything we do. Nothing like a little shot of humility, but at the same time, it’s nice to know she’s paying attention.
I stood with 3 empty egg cartons (eggs were on sale) last week and I thought to myself, “Ugh, there must be something crafty I can do with these!!” and I kid you not, I even thought, “I bet Chrissy would have a brilliant idea.” And now here you are, with egg carton crafts!
Great job, it’s adorable!
And I love the ‘uh-oh’ comment…too cute!
Can we say amazing!
I’ll set my 6yo free with scissors and egg cartons this morning and see what he comes up with.
This is SO creative, I love it! I’ll be linking to this and adding you to my Reader so I don’t miss a thing!
TOTALLY AMAZING. Again!
Seriously, how DO you do it.