Egg Carton Ant
Materials
- cardboard egg carton – you need 3 cups attached
- scissors
- yellow, brown, red or black tempra paint (or any color you would like) - paintbrush
- 4 pipe cleaners (three for legs and one for antennae)
- sharp pencil
- wiggle eyes, 2 cheerios or 2 fruit loops
- black marker
- glue
Directions
- Cut a strip of 3 cups from the cardboard egg carton*
- Paint the cups and let dry
- Using a sharp pencil, poke 2 holes in the top of the first cup*
- From inside the cup, poke both ends of the pipe cleaner through the pencil holes to make antennae (one end through each hole)
- Using a sharp pencil, poke one hole on the sides of each cup (6 holes)*
- Push a pipe cleaner through the holes in the first cup (make the same amount of pipe cleaner stick out the sides – these are the legs, bend to form feet)
- Repeat with the second and third cup
- Glue the wiggle eyes onto the head (substitute cheerios or fruit loops)
- Optional: draw mouth on with black marker
*Adults can do this before craft time
