If you’re not already stockpiling your egg cartons for rainy day upcycling, start saving those cartons for the next creative challenge.
A little background
Every two months I host a Creative Challenge, with the introduction of a readily available material and the invitation for children to create something from it.
The objective of these challenges is to help children learn to trust their own ideas, build creative confidence, and envision new purposes for common objects.
To join, document your maker journey with one of more photo, and then come back on April 9 to share what you did. If you have a blog, set your post to go live on April 9. Otherwise, you can add images of your work to a comment on my blog on April 9. Either way, it’s fun to share and be inspired.
So far, the following kid-friendly bloggers let me know that they’re in excited to share their contributions.
Will you join us too?
- The Imagination Tree
- Glittering Muffins
- Kitchen Counter Chronicles
- Make, Do & Friend
- Messy Kids
- Red Ted Art
- Sun Hats & Wellie Boots
- Inspiration Laboratories
- NurtureStore
- Paint Cut Paste
- Living At The Whiteheads Zoo
- Rainy Day Mum
- The Golden Gleam
- Mama Mia’s heart2heart
- PlayDrMom
- The Chocolate Muffin Tree
- The Educators’ Spin On It
- Teach Preschool
- Toddler Approved
- Letters, Numbers, and Books
- Reading Confetti
- Kindergarten & Preschool for Parents & Teachers
- The Outlaw Mom
- Happy Little Messes
- Rainbows Within Reach
- Mommy Labs
- Child Central Station
- Green Owl Art
- Reuse Crafts
- Experimenting Mom
- Duck Duck Octopus
- Train up a Child
- Growing a Jeweled Rose
- Coffee Cups and Crayons
- Ready Set Read
- Scribble Doodle and Draw
- Carrots are Orange
To read more about the challenges, click here.
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Count Letters Numbers and Books oh my in http://lettersnumbersandbooksohmy.blogspot.com/
hai ya ….am too interested to join the challenge .Â
Suuuuuuuper. Look forward to seeing your egg carton ideas on the 9th.
That sounds like so much fun! My 6 year old and I are IN!
Hooray! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
We are soo in! Already have the post!
Yay! If you have a blog (and it sounds like you do), attach a link and I’ll add it to the list, Teresita.
We are soo in! Already have the post!
I don’t have a blog, but I save egg cartons like mad. Besides for my mom-in-law’s chicken eggs, the Styrofoam ones are best for separating craft paint for projects and such!
Yay! I hope you’ll join us. You can add a photo to your comment if you’d like — I’d love to see what you all create!
Count us in Rachel! We would love to participate we have lot of egg carton crafts, Do you have a link limit this time too? Esther(Creativity my Passion)
No limit, Esther. I’d love to see a wide range of ideas. Of course, I’d like to limit people who have gazillions of posts as it would overshadow everyone else’s creations, so please be mindful of that!
we’re down to party with egg cartons.
so, i have a post i did a few months ago. can i use that or do i need to come up with something new. i really like the thing i did.Â
That’s fine, Amy! So glad that you’ll participate.
Sounds like fun! Count us in!
Super!
I’ll be there. Big M got creative with the egg cartons… go figure
Can’t wait to see it, Jill!
Count me IN!Â
Hooray, Sarah! Looking forward to it.
Egg carton challenge accepted! blog posted this morning – Big and Small’s Hungry Caterpillar puppet! http://daisydinosaur.com/2012/04/09/egg-carton-creative-challenge/
Love it! Feel free to link up here too:Â http://tinkerlab.com/2012/04/creative-challenge-egg-carton/
i’m in. Â : )
http://preschool-daze.com/2012/04/09/e-is-for-egg-carton-challenge/
Check out this idea for learning to read using egg cartons from Two2Readblog.com
http://www.two2readblog.com/egg-carton-challenge/
We made egg carton masks!
http://sarahlipoff.com/2012/04/09/egg-carton-masks/
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