I have ten crafts with styrofoam egg cartons and some adorable chicken crafts. Also, you’ll my page Free Homeschool Chicken Unit Study and Anatomy of an Egg Felt Activity & Worksheet.
If you’re looking for simple crafts, especially with young children, you’ll love these egg carton crafts.
Besides, I like to reuse something that otherwise might get tossed.
There are so many creative ideas using different parts and pieces of egg cartons and sometimes the whole thing.
Then I also have a tutorial for how to make an easy chicken craft from egg cartons.
It will be a great accompaniment to a farm unit study and your little one can create an entire flock of unique chickens.
Resources to Learn About Chickens
First, look at some of these fun resources to learn about chickens.
9 Books and Resources for a Fun Chicken Unit Study
Whether you’re wanting to do a chicken unit study or study chickens for the day, you’ll love these books and resources to add to your collection.
Cheep . . . cheep . . . cluck! Everything you ever wanted to know about chickens and eggs—except which came first. With bright watercolor illustrations and simple, clear language, nonfiction master Gail Gibbons shows young readers everything there is to know about chickens. See what different breeds of chickens look like, discover how eggs are laid and hatched, and learn how big and little farms take care of their birds. Key vocabulary words about chicken behavior and anatomy are introduced throughout Chicks and Chickens, and new words are reinforced in accessible language for young readers.
Children can see how animals change and grow. Realistic detail showing a different stage in the development of animals.
Uniquely molded textures and richly painted details bring them to life and help inspire creativity for kids.
It is a great way to expand the growth with children through physical science.
Learn the difference between a farrow and a barrow, and what distinguishes a weanling from a yearling. Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman’s charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from the shapes of squash varieties to how a barn is constructed and what makes up a beehive to crop rotation patterns, Rothman gives a richly entertaining tour of the quirky details of country life.
Read and find out about eggs—and how baby chicks grow inside of them—in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
Learn how chicks develop, how they get the food they need to grow, and how a mother hen helps keep them safe in this introduction to the life cycle of a baby chick.
This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. It's a Level 1 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores introductory concepts perfect for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:
A great educational book, covering:• Different breeds of chickens, like Padovana and Silkie• The difference between roosters and hens• How chicks are formed in the egg• Chickens sounds and noises• Chicken anatomy and feather anatomy and colors• Chickens and eggs around the world• Chicken history and folklore• Raising chickens at home• Chickens as pets
These LEGO Chickens are a fun and easy add on for little ones joining in the fun.
DETAILED & REALISTIC. Crafted with precision and authentic detail to create a lifelike toy that teaches and inspires toddlers and kids of every age; helps introduce children to animals. From the first sketch to the intricate finishing touches, we see value in every detail.
Chicken Coop Building Blocks. It contains a coop, twenty chicken and ten eggs.
Compatible with LEGO: It's made of LEGO-compatible bricks. It will enrich your MOC blocks. It can be put together with a lot of block scenes, such as farm, house, castle, village, animal and so on.
These little chicken figurines would also make a great addition to a chicken study, put them in a sensory bin with a little birdseed or cracked corn for hours of fun.
Also, here are some chicken facts to talk about with your children as they do these fun chicken crafts.
Chicken Facts
- One purpose of a chicken comb is to keep the hen cool in hot weather, their combs are filled with capillaries and veins. Heated blood flows through and is air-cooled which reduces the chicken’s temperature.
- Chickens usually only lay one egg per day but the record for eggs laid by a chicken in one day is 7.
- The color of the egg depends on the chicken’s earlobes, chickens with red earlobes lay brown eggs, while chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs. (There are plenty of exceptions to this rule but this is the case in most instances).
- Chickens can run up to 9 miles an hour, talk about fast food!
- There is no shortage of chickens, if all of the chickens on earth were spread out among all the people on earth, each person would have at least 3 chickens.
If you need a great reference book you can use Farm Anatomy for just about every farm topic there is but I am focusing on the chicken and especially learning about their different combs.
But now let’s take a look at some other crafts with styrofoam egg carton ideas from ocean creatures to ice cream cones.
10 Crafts With Styrofoam Egg Cartons
Grab those egg cartons out of the recycling bin and create a few of these fantastically creative crafts using different parts of egg cartons.
- Dive deep into the ocean for these Egg Carton Jellyfish Puppet’s, they are simply adorable.
- What a fantastic idea to use the part of the carton that is usually discarded when doing egg carton crafts. Egg Carton Sharks
- Egg Carton Whale Craft for Kids is cute and easy, great for a preschool ocean study.
- Maybe this Recycled Egg Carton Toadstool Craft will be the start of a fairy garden but they are fabulous even on their own.
- Look at my fun craft for the littles with 10 Egg Carton Crafts For 2 Year Olds and Fun Nature Color Match Activity.
- I just love the creativity of these Egg Carton Faces and can see them being used for so many things.
- Make these Egg Carton Mice and a block of cheese out of a simple egg carton.
- And grab my unit study with this Cutest Ever Egg Carton Sea Turtle Craft and Learning Activities for Kids.
- The Recycled Ants Craft is too cute to spoil a picnic but makes a great hands-on activity while learning all about ants.
- Not only are these Egg Carton Ice Cream Cones the sweetest thing but they would make a great item for a dramatic play area or sensory bin.
How to Make Easy Chicken Crafts With Styrofoam Egg Cartons
Set up a chicken crafting station for preschoolers through early elementary to enjoy when you are teaching about farm life and chickens or just when you need a rainy day idea.
You will need:
- Styrofoam egg cartons
- Red, orange, and yellow craft foam
- Orange and yellow pipe cleaners
- Hole punch
- Craft feathers
- Tacky Glue
- Googly eyes
- Scissors
First, cut out the individual cups from your egg cartons for as many chickens as you want, and keep as much of each cup as you can.
Use a hole punch to punch two holes on one side at the bottom of the cup.
Poke a pipe cleaner through one hole through the inside of the cup and out the other side trim to any length you like for legs.
Now, cut small triangles out of yellow and or orange craft foam for beaks and feet.
Then, cut irregular raindrop shapes for the chicken’s wattle (the little dangly thing under the beak. As well as wavy-topped pieces for combs.
Use a paintbrush dipped in tacky glue to make spots of glue where you want to stick eyes.
Also use the paintbrush glue for the combs, wattles, and beaks.
You can use regular school glue but it tends to run and items will slide down the slippery egg carton.
Tacky glue holds things into place nicely while drying.
Dab glue on the back and sides as well to add wings and tail feathers.
You will also want to add a generous dollop of glue to the ends of your pipe cleaner feet.
Then press them into the little triangles.
Once dry you can pose your chicken legs in different ways.
