Have you dyed Easter eggs? Just made some omelets? Reuse and repurpose your empty egg cartons with this fun and easy craft.
Step 1. Start by printing this page out for your bees and an interior glimpse of an active beehive. Print out as many sheets as you’d like, it’s up to you how many bees you want your hive to have.
This is an example of a finished beehive mobile! Yours can be any colors you want, decorated any way you like!
Step 2. Collect your supplies. Empty egg cartons, scissors, glue, coffee stirrers, needle and thread, fishing line, and washers. Not shown I also used colored pencils and fingernail polish.
You don’t have to decorate your egg cartons, but I used paints to make mine look more like a beehive. Use any kind of paint - even spray paint if you have some - to decorate your beehive. Also feel free to experiment, you can also decoupage photos or put papier-mâché over the outside. This craft project is fun, let your imagination run freely. 😊
Start with your printed sheet.
Step 3. Color in your bees and the interior of your beehive.
I like adding glitter fingernail polish for a shimmering ‘pollen’ effect.
Color your pages in any way that makes you happy!
Step 4. Here I am cutting out hexagon hive holes to show a sneak peek into the hive’s interior. Please be careful. Adult supervision with sharp scissors advised. You can cut as few or as many holes as you’d like. Or skip this step altogether.
Your interior art will show through the holes you cut out as shown.
Step 5. Cut out your bees and hive pieces.
Step 6. Glue your bee medallions back to back so you will have a bee showing in all directions when your finished hive is hung.
Step 7. Paint your egg carton.
Step 8. Decorate your beehive any way you like! Here I used a Sharpie to draw in honeycomb shapes. Note the hole punched in the bottom left cell. I will be pushing a coffee stirrer through that.
Step 9. This is optional. I added coffee stirrers to give more space to hang my flying bees.
The finished beehive mobile! 🐝💕
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