(We were making egg carton animals when Evan started playing with his.  “Look, Mommy, an igloo!”  So if you ever need an igloo, here it is.)

Just paint it white!

Things you need:

• Cardboard egg carton
• Scissors
• Crayons, markers, and/or paint
• Pen
• Green construction paper or green craft foam
• Scissors
• Glue
• Optional: things to glue on to decorate the shell

Cut out a cup from the egg carton. 

Egg carton cup (again)

Trace four feet, using a dime, on the green construction paper.  Make a “U” shade using the dime for the head, and make an obelisk shape for the tail. 

The body parts

 Cut out the shapes.  Have the child draw eyes on the head.  Have the child decorate the shell. 

So I used the photo. We made them on the same day.

Have the child glue on the feet on each corner of the cup. 

Adding the feet

Then glue the head between two feet, and glue the tail on the opposite end of the head.

The turtle brothers

One of the first turtles

Things you need:

• Cardboard egg carton
• Scissors
• Markers, crayons, and/or paint
• Googly eyes
• glue
• Any decoration you want to use (shells, buttons, marbles, noodles, etc)

Cut a cup from the egg carton. 

Egg carton cups

Have the child color the egg carton cup. 

Coloring the master piece

With the opening down, have the child glue the eyes on the carton. 

It has eyes!

Have the child glue on extra decorations.

Evan's is the right one, the "lady bug." Sean's is the left, going for minimalism

Things you need:

• 2 in green pompom
• 2 small green pompoms
• 2 googly eyes
• Green craft foam
• Glue (school or craft)
• A pen
• Scissors

Glue a googly eye on each of the small green pompoms.  Allow them to dry.

Who's looking at you, kid?

  Cut out a circle out of the green foam to make a lily pad.  I used the top of the juice can to make my circle.  Cut out a triangle out of the circle. 

The lily pads

Have the child glue the 2in green pompom.  Have the child glue the frog eyes to the top of the 2in pompom.

I can see! I can see!

Sitting like two frogs on a log

Things you need:

• 3in green pompom
• 2in green pompom
• 2 small white pompoms
• 2 green or black mini pompoms
• Green craft foam
• Glue (school or craft)
• Scissors

Cut out of the green foam two frog feet.  I used a quarter to trace around and added three triangles to the top. 

I know. They're ugly feet.

Have the child glue the 3in pompom to the feet.  Have the child glue the 2in pompom to the first one, making the body and head.  On the top of the head, have the child glue the white pompoms to make eyes. 

Gluing the eyes

Have the child glue the mini pompoms to the small white ones.

The Ugliest Frog in the World. (I'm a freak of crafting!)

Things you need:

• Red 1 in pompom (or 2in)
• Black mini pompoms
• Black marker
• Googly eyes
• Glue

Have the child make black dots on the red pompom.  The child might have to swirl around the marker to make a good size dot. 

Making spots

 Glue on the eyes. 

He can see!

Then glue the mini pompoms on the top to make antennas. 

Now he is a true bug.

Evan decided he needed to decorate his bug more, so he added a mini red pompom for an earing.

The ladybugs

Things you need:

• Egg carton
• Plastic Easter egg shells
• Markers
• Dirt
• Grass seed
• Spoon
• Water

Take the plastic eggs and have the child draw faces on the eggs.  (I wanted to add googley eyes, but Evan nixed that idea.) 

Decorating eggs

Place the eggs in the egg carton, so that they cannot be tipped over. 

See, mine had a face.

Have the child place some dirt in the eggs with the spoon. 

There's a reason I suggested a spoon

Have the child put in enough grass seed to cover the area. 

You might want to do this outside

Have the child put on a slim covering of dirt.  (Um, we missed that step.  We had too much dirt to begin with.) 

Grow, baby, grow

 Let the child water the plants and take care of them.  (Unfortunately we only had three blades of grass grow.  We’re redoing this planting experiment.)