the friendly neighborhood bug...

We go through a lot of eggs in my house... A LOT!!! So we generally buy large quantities... and apart from accumulating calories, we also have a lot of egg cartons... So guess what... thats right... its craft time.

Egg carton Ant

Cut out a 3 egg size out from the egg carton. Paint it any colour you like, Sharanya chose red. Punch 2 holes on the head of the ant, put a pipe cleaner through it and twirl it like the antennae. punch holes on either side and stick in the pipe cleaners to make legs...

Don't forget to stick on some googly eyes.. and once you're done, it should look like this or any other way your toddler makes it... they never are wrong...

A egg carton ladybug and caterpillar are simple to make as well, all you need to do is cut up the size required (size of one egg in the case of a lady bug and 4-5 incase of a caterpillar), paint it, stick on the googly eyes and you're set. Did I forget the antennae... stick in pipe cleaners...

Sharanya loves to mix colours to see what the new colour is...

So she figured that red and blue made purple...

Sharanya told me the entire process of metamorphosis, saying that "our caterpillar looks sad because it wants to be a blutterfly (butterfly) soon, but hasn't eaten its veggies...". And she gave it some stars to encourage it... So thought for the day - Get your child to tell you about the craft he/she made... who knows what little pearls of wisdom come tumbling out...

Yeah... nothing about the ladybug... Sharanya made it... so it's all good!