DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Egg Carton Ant
This is another faithful old craft idea that I've done with my
daughters and, way back when, as a child myself. Accompany it with
a tasty snack of "ants on a log" (cheese whiz coated celery
sticks sprinkled with raisins), a rousing song of "The Ants Go
Marching" and a fun children's story like
The
Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb. The ant craft is fairly
correct from an anatomic standpoint -- three body parts (head, thorax
and abdomen), 6 legs and 2 antennae |
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Materials:
- cardboard egg carton - you need three cups attached
- scissors
- yellow, brown, red or black tempra paint (or another color if you want to
make a creative ant)
- paint brush
- 4 pipe cleaners (chenille) -- three for legs and one for the antenna
- sharp pencil
- wiggly eyes, 2 cheerios or 2 fruit loops
- black marker
- glue
Instructions:
- cut a strip of cups (3 cups) from the egg carton -- adults can do this
before craft time.
- paint the cups and let dry
- using a sharp pencil, poke two holes in the top of the first cup -- adults
can do this step
before craft time.
- from inside the cup, poke both ends of the pipe cleaner through the pencil
holes (one end through each hole) to make antennae
- using a sharp pencil, poke one hole on each side of each cup (6 holes in
total) -- again, adults can do this step.
- Push a pipecleaner through the holes in the first cup.
- Make the same amount of pipecleaner stick out the sides -- these are
two legs -- you can bend little feet into the ends of the pipecleaner if you like.
- Repeat with the second cup and third cup
- You should end up with 6 legs when you're through
- glue the wiggly eyes onto the head (you could substitute 2 cheerios or 2
fruit loops)
- OPTIONAL: draw on a mouth with black marker
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