Craft Ideas Using Half Pint Milk Cartons?

Mary Lou

September 26, 20070 found this helpful

Make a village or better yet a castle. You can even make it sand castle. Leave one carton with the peaked top as is. For the others, fold down the peak as flat as possible and tape securely. Stack the cartons to the tower height u want, taping them together and with the carton that has the peak on top. Coat with a good white glue, a section at a time, and roll the glued area in fine beach sand (or use the colored stuff for fish aquariums if u can get a good deal somewhere) When thoroughly dry, cut out windows, doors etc. Mini dioramas would be easy too. Open the peaked top all the way open, set up your scene inside(eg. Nativity with miniature Mary, Joseph and baby, on straw or colored paper shreds(like for Easter baskets) Close the top back up and staple.

Wash out the 1/2 pint milk carton and cover it with Tin Foil. Take a dab of icing and put it on the bottom of the carton, then place it on a plate. Then spread some icing all over the carton and some on the plate for snow.

Fill them with homemade suet for the birds, hang in mesh bags. They love these.

martha pitts

September 27, 20070 found this helpful

if you make candles, this is perfect for large square ones.
and if you put ice in the was it will leave holes and interesting patterns. A friend of mine did this with her cub scouts and they loved it.

I used them in a project at the nursing home.

I prepared a great deal of the add ons and had the
residents paste to the milk carton and had cute little