Simple Egg Carton Poppy Bouquet {Preschool Remembrance Day Craft}

I try to observe Remembrance Day at home with the kids as much as I can. We make our own poppy of some sort or another (check out the ones we made last year!), and we sing the song that I learned in Elementary School – Soldiers, & Sailors, & Airmen, Too; we turn on the TV and watch some of the Ottawa service, and we talk about what it all means. 

This year, we made a Poppy Bouquet out of egg cartons. Thanks so much to Jen Goode at Projects for Preschoolers for the pinspiration! 

On a difficulty scale from 1-10, I’d rate this craft about a 4 – but the preschooler is pretty much just in for the painting – the other 3 steps are all you. 🙂 

Supplies needed:

• 1 egg carton (bottom, only)
• scissors
• red paint
• paint brushes
• green pipe cleaners
• 12 black or brown buttons

1. Cut apart the cells of the egg carton & trim each one down so that they’re level all the way around.
2. Have your child paint the inside and the outside of the cells red, turn upside down on a piece of paper and let dry.
3. Draw a pipe cleaner up through the bottom of the first button hole and then down through the opposite hole, twisting the excess pipe cleaner around the ‘stem’. 
4. Poke a small hole in the center of a dried, painted flower, and insert the pipe cleaner/button stem  in from the top of the egg carton and pull until the button is resting in the centre of the cell.
5. With a scissor, make four inscisions from the top of the cell towards the centre, creating four petals.

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Jenn vanOosten

I live in Hamilton, Ontario, and love my city. I'm a Netflixer, choral music geek, bookworm, inventor of recipes (I take Artistic Licence on EVERYTHING that I make), wife of one, mother of two, and owner of a neurotic Schnauzer. I respect people who respect others. I love good food that's well done, but my favourite lunch is KD & hotdogs. With ketchup. I'm addicted to Clearance Shopping. I will ALWAYS get the product that I want at the price that I want, eventually.

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