Here are some egg carton monsters kids will love!

This is a fun kids craft idea perfect for Halloween. It’s also a recycling craft so you get to use up your trash at the same time – win-win!

You might also like our easy peg monsters

Do you love egg carton crafts? I do because there is something about repurposing rubbish that makes me happy, especially if the end product is a cute little monster.

I call this craft a ‘treat holder’ but in saying that the treats they hold are very tiny (which is a plus for us parents, am I right?).

We made a few of them and then I hid a small treat in each one and hid them around the garden so that the girls could have a fun monster treasure hunt, which they loved! They also make fun Halloween decorations.

How to make egg carton monsters

You will need: 

• An egg carton (each 12-pack egg carton will make 6 monsters)
• Acrylic paint
• PVA (school) glue
• Googly eyes — or use our free printable paper eyes for a more eco-friendly version
• Paint brush
• scissors
• Sweets to place inside (use wrapped sweets or wrap your own)

How to:

1. Cut the egg carton cups into individual pieces (kids will need some help with this part). You might like to include some teeth, or keep it flat and add a tongue from the flat part of the egg carton. Snip off some pointy bits to use as horns – the sky is the limit, design them however you like.’
2. Paint them inside and out and allow to dry
3. Glue on horns, googly eyes and anything else you’ve made
4. Place sweets inside

Our egg carton monsters are friendly and only eat sweets, not people! Don’t you think they are cute?

More fun Halloween ideas:

• Make a cute egg carton spider puppet on a string
• These halloween suncatchers look so colourful!
• Make a paper pumpkin basket using our free printable template
• Our egg carton black cat costume looks so cute on Miss K!