Animal Craft: Plastic Egg Carton Craft | Home Learning Art & Craft Project Activity

In this post, I will be showing how to make use of a plastic egg container to create a "frog" craft. This was a craft project that Lauren did in Brightly Beaming Resources' (Step 3: Sound of the Week) homeschool curriculum for the "fr" sound as in "frog", Click Here To Find Out Why We Are Doing Homeschooling. I thought about doing our frog out of an empty egg container sitting on a lotus pad made out of styro plate.

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READY FOR KID BEFORE STARTING ACTIVITY ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIALS

* cut and trimmed egg containers 

* cut eye circle patterns 

* cut frog feet pattern 

* cut lotus pad pattern 

* cut egg containers for lotus flowers

* hole punched paper (for dots on frog)

DONE BY ADULT OR PARENT

* FROG HEAD & BODY: Cut 2 egg holders from an empty plastic egg container. Trim the edges to make them even. 

* FROG FEET: Print a frog feet template, reduce or scale the size in the printing settings before printing to fit best with your egg container frog, Click Here For Printable Frog Feet Pattern.

* FROG EYE CIRCLES: Cut a piece of the plastic egg container and trace a small round object on it such as a coin, make 2 circles for the googly eyes to be glued on it.

* LOTUS PAD: Trace a round object that is a bit bigger than the frog on a styro plate, then make a triangle pattern on the side using a ruler, cut the triangle pattern to reveal a lotus pad.

* LOTUS FLOWERS: Create some lotus flowers to got with the lotus pad, cut another 2 egg cups from the plastic egg container, trim edges in a zig zag resembling a lotus flower.

* FROG DOTS: Punched construction papers in any color of choice for dots to be glued around body and face of frog.

DONE BY CHILD

* cut feet, eye circles, and lotus pad patterns

* paint egg containers, eye circles, frog feet, lotus pad, and lotus flower(s)

* glue frog pieces together

* draw / add details on frog

STEPS IN DOING THIS FROG CRAFT

STEP #1: First, let child paint egg cartons (frog head & body), eye circles, and feet with any color of their choice. There are different kinds of frogs and they come in different colors and appearance, Click Here For Various Frog Images for color ideas. Let child paint their frog with any color aside from what is shown, set aside painted pieces to dry.

STEP #2: Next, let child paint lotus pad with green acrylic paint and the egg cartons (lotus flowers) with any color of their choice, Click Here For Lotus Flowers Images for color ideas. Set aside painted pieces to dry.

STEP #3: Once all the painted pieces are dry, let child glue googly eyes on eye circles using hot glue. Put hot glue on the spot and let child glue googly eyes on it, you can try various googly eyes colors or design for fun looking eyes, Click Here To Check Out Various Fun Colored Googly Eyes. Next, let child glue eye circles on the egg carton head and the head on egg carton body using hot glue (with supervision).

STEP #4: Next, let child draw a mouth below eyes using black permanent marker, then glue some paper dots all over frog face and body for additional details.

STEP #5: Finally, let child glue feet below frog body and the whole frog onto lotus pad using hot glue (with supervision).

And there goes your "egg container frog", add some egg carton lotus flowers on the side as accessories. Below is Lauren's version of doing this project, get the kids creating their own version of this craft today!

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MATERIALS FOR THIS CRAFT

* empty plastic egg container * acrylic paints * paint brush * paint mixing tray * white glue * small googly eyes * small styro plate * scissors * hot melt glue * glue gun * ruler * black permanent marker * assorted construction papers * hole puncher

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POST UPDATED: December 2025

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