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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 attacked |
| 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.
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| paint the cups and let dry
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| using a sharp pencil, poke two holes in the top of the first cup -- adults
can do this step
before craft time.
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| from inside the cup, poke both ends of the pipe cleaner through the pencil
holes (one end through each hole) to make antennae
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| using a sharp pencil, poke one hole on each side of each cup (6 holes in
total) -- again,
adults can do this step.
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| 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
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| glue the wiggly eyes onto the head (you could substitute 2 cheerios or 2
fruit loops)
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| OPTIONAL: draw on a mouth with black marker |
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