12 super-creative craft projects to do by recycling egg cartons

Sometimes all that is really needed is a little inspiration to set free one's creative flair: often, in fact, we have everything, or almost everything, at our fingertips to start craft projects.

A very useful material to create many very nice decorations, for example, are cardboard egg cartons, which with their particular shape, can be cut out and painted in a thousand different ways to make little animals, flowers and more. Sometimes you need whole cartons and at other times, just some parts of them are needed. Check out the ideas below to find out how many ways you can recycle egg cartons:

For a decoration inspired by the woods and forests, mushrooms are a wonderful idea: and with egg cartons you can easily make these.

By stringing several painted cups from an egg carton onto a thread, you can create fish - which will also be able to move around a little!

By adding bits of string, you can create cute jellyfish to hang up wherever you want.

If, on the other hand, you want to use the entire egg carton, then one idea is to make these very colorful crocodiles!

Or make miniature sailing ships. You could even try floating them in water for a while - at least until the cardboard gets too wet.

And what if the egg carton became a miniature planter for a paper flower garden that you can personalize? A creative way to learn the shapes and colors of the most common flowers - or to create brand new ones!

With soft cotton and a few balls of felt or wool, you can create cute ice cream cones!

Let's go to the theater: these very cute binoculars are made using egg cartons. And they would also be a perfect accessory for many costume parties!

How about recreating a Ratatouille-worthy scene, complete with cheese and mice?

Make any string of fairy lights special using flowers made of cardboard from an egg carton!

Whole or half-eaten apples (with the core showing): a creative and very colorful project!

Don't you find these egg carton penguins absolutely adorable?

Are you ready to transform your egg cartoons into wonderful creations?