I store up cardboard boxes, egg cartons for recycling purpose. CJ(My little girl aged 2 1/2) loves to paint and I give her the recycled cardboard to play round with paint. She mixes all colors together and creates a random art. Wanted her to create an meaningful painting and thus the Egg carton tree was grown in a day.
Materials Used:
Egg carton(I used foam egg carton, u can use paper ones too)Paint
Paint brush
Cardboard
Glue (Normal Glue, Hot glue will make the foam melt)
Child safe scissors
Steps Overview:
We cut the Egg carton cups into rows of 3, 2, 1. Applied glue to the egg carton cup as shown below. 
Stuck the egg carton 2 cup row for the trunk as shown below
Applied glue to 3 cups row of egg carton and glue it to the top of the trunk then glue 2 cup carton and 1 cup carton. We got the tree structure as below.
We let it dry. Then CJ painted the tree leaves green.
She painted the tree trunk brown. For the background I made CJ to paint green grass and blue sky.
Then we painted cloud, rock, birds and sun too
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