Egg Carton Spring Wreath

Although I have some flowers on my front door for spring, I found myself still wanting to make a wreath. This is a great recycling project and fun for kids! I made flowers from a couple of egg cartons.  With Easter coming up, there should be a good supply of egg cartons available!  You just cut the egg cartons into flower shapes.  They should look like this:

After cutting out all of my little flowers, I painted them in nice, bright spring colors.

While those were drying, I cut out a wreath shape from cardboard.

I painted it spring green.

For the center of the flowers, I cut little circles from brightly colored fabric, felt, and scrap paper and hot glued them on.  I also added some buttons. 

  

The next step was to hot glue all of the flowers onto the wreath form. 

I went around the entire wreath, gluing the flowers on, trying to not put too many of the same color too close together.

Here it is with the fresh eggs sign …

And here it is framed (I think I like it this way best).

Of course, it’s cute all by itself.

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