Egg Carton School Bus This is a simple craft for preschool children about to begin school or for young siblings of school age kids.

Materials:

• lid (TOP) of an egg carton
• yellow paint or markers
• black construction paper or 2 lids from milk jugs (for wheels)
• black marker
• Optional:  small cutouts of people from magazines, coloring books or hand drawn

Instructions:

• Cut the lid off an egg carton.
• Paint (or color with marker) the lid yellow.  We only used one coat, but you could do two.
• While the paint is drying, cut 2 circles out of black construction paper 
  • (you can have the children trace the lid from a baby food jar or orange juice container -- preschool kids enjoy tracing).  Use white crayon, chalk or pencil crayon for tracing.
  • Allow the children to cut out their circles with safety scissors (or supervise them closely while they use regular scissors).
  • The wheels don't have to be perfectly round -- let them have fun.
• OR
  • use the lids from milk jugs as an alternative to construction paper wheels
• Optional:  Also while the paint is drying, have the children cut small images of people from magazines or coloring books or let them draw their own.  
  • once again, let the children roughly cut out the images with safety scissors.
• Once the paint is dry, glue on the wheels.
• Optional:  Glue the images of people onto the bus.  The carton we used had holes down the center, so we glued the people into the holes.  
  • If yours doesn't have holes, just glue the people onto the bus...  You can draw "windows" around them with a black marker.
• Write SCHOOL along the top of the bus (or if your child is beginning to write on their own, let them write it out).