Egg box mermaid 🧜‍♀️

This fun craft makes a lovely window decoration and uses up old egg boxes. You could probably make yours neater than ours, I was time limited to baby’s nap.

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You’ll need:

• Old egg box
• Ribbon
• Paint and brushes
• Cardboard
• Coloured/textured card/paper
• Pens
• Scissors and glue (either PVA or gluegun)

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What to do:

1. Cut the egg box into individual parts, trim off the edges to give a fish scale finish. Keep the top of the egg box.
2. Paint the individual parts and leave to dry.
3. On cardboard or the top of the egg box draw the outline of the top part of a mermaid and a tail shape, cut out.
4. Paint the tail and leave to dry.
5. Add a bikini top to the mermaid using textured card or paper, stick on with PVA glue.
6. Give your mermaid a face (googley eyes optional!).
7. Give your mermaid hair by sticking a ribbon round the face.
8. Once the egg box sections/tail parts are dry make a small split in the top of each, preferably with a knife.
9. Thread a piece of ribbon through each egg box/tail part, knot between to keep them evenly spaced. Leave a long section of ribbon at the top.
10. Stick on the tail shape to the inside of the last egg box section.
11. Cut a larger slit in the top egg box and trim the top half of the mermaid so it fits through. Fold it over and stick it down with glue or sellotape.
12. I also stuck the extra ribbon to the back on the mermaids body, and tied an extra piece of string to the ribbon so that I could hang up the mermaid.

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Hints and tips:

– Extra recycling points if you manage to cut out the tail and the body from the remaining lid of the egg box, otherwise use card.

– If you have a glue gun it’s worth using it to stick the ribbon the the mermaids body and to secure the mermaid inside the top section of the tail. Otherwise use sellotape.

– I had trouble spacing the tail sections, make sure you have the right spacing before tying the knots.