Egg Carton Jingle Bells – Christmas Ornament Craft

I just love these jingle bells that we made out of egg cartons!

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To make these jingle bells you will need

an egg carton to cut up to make bells
paint and optional glitter glue
pipe cleaners
jingle bells

Cut up your egg carton as displayed below and trim the extra ridges till it has the desired look. I used a toothpick to make the top holes for where the pipe cleaners will be inserted, before painting.

This is where the kids come in! We took our kids craft table outside and painted our bells blue, red, white and green. Although I didn’t end up using the green ones for the jingle bells! I have an idea to use them later this week.

Once your paint is dry use the toothpick again to make sure the little holes are open. My boys enjoyed making these jingle bells as it is really easy!

Cut a pipe cleaner in 3, bend a little hook on one end then insert from the top of the egg carton bell downwards and secure the jingle bells by just folding the pipe cleaner upwards on the other end.

My 3 year old loved the sounds and inspected all the bells we made 🙂 The one year old just wanted to stack then all on top of each other. Maybe she was thinking about our egg carton color sorter!