Creative, but Interesting Things to Do with Egg Cartons

Egg cartons are available in almost every house, and instead of throwing them out, you can recycle them in a creative manner.

Collect your egg cartons to recycle them to design other useful items. You can use paper products and clear plastic to make it useful for other purposes. Following are some ideas to do with egg cartons:

Paint Palettes

Styrofoam and plastic egg cartons are ideal options to keep paints of your children, because it is easy to wash. It can be a perfect project for the elementary school kids to design a paint palette to secure their items.

Homemade Mancala

It can be made with the help of dry beans, marbles or rocks. It is a good IQ game for young children. Design it with the help of egg carton and give a healthy activity to your kids.

Science Fair Projects

Your kids may have to prepare various science projects, either to collect seeds, rocks, insects and other items. The egg cartons prove really helpful in such projects, because you can perfectly present different items with their names with the help of projects. Just glue the rocks inside the carton and paste a chit containing the name of each rock. You can also secure various other items in the each compartment of the egg carton.