Easy Toilet Paper Roll Crafts Kids Will Love To Make
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Easy Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for Kids: 7 Fun and Creative Ideas
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Get creative with your kids and make the most of toilet paper rolls with these easy and eco-friendly crafts. From puppets to airplanes, we’ve got 7 fun ideas to get you started.
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If there is one thing we always have another of, it is toilet paper rolls!
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Somewhere along the way my daughter got the idea to use a toilet paper roll to draw out what our puppets look like. Here is a fun toilet paper roll flowers craft for kids that is sure to make it feel like spring inside your house.
Atomic Facts
- Toilet paper rolls are abundant and can be repurposed.
- Making your own toys and games is a green choice.
- Crafting is a way to practice fine motor skills in children.
- Toilet paper tube crafts can be an affordable and fun way to create decorative items.
- Recycling toilet paper rolls promotes environmental sustainability.
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7 Easy Toilet Paper Roll Crafts For Kids
Toilet paper roll crafts are a popular and creative way to repurpose empty toilet rolls into various DIY projects. These crafts are not only environmentally friendly by promoting recycling but also offer an affordable and fun way to create decorative items.
1. Toilet Paper Roll People Finger Puppets
We have been using our fingers as puppets since my kids are little. Somewhere along the way my daughter got the idea to use a toilet paper roll to draw out what our puppets look like. Then we act out imaginary scenes with our cute toilet paper roll craft finger puppet people.
This can be done simply with a marker or you can go to town with construction paper, scissors, glue, and markers to a make a more 3 dimensional effect for your puppet. Little extras like real buttons and cotton hair can help your puppets look even more real. You and your kids can make anyone from family members to pirates or movie characters! These make a fun craft to play with and are even great for putting on little plays.
2. Toilet Paper Roll Animals
Toilet paper rolls make great bodies for animals. You can turn your tube horizontally and glue on some legs and a head cut from another toilet paper tube or from construction paper. Or you can leave your tube upright to design animals like birds. You can let your kids create their own zoo with and even use the empty toilet paper rolls to make the trees and fences for your toilet paper animal zoo!
There really are endless paper tube animals that you can make. Isn’t that toilet paper roll owl just the cutest?
3. Toilet Paper Roll Lanterns
Paper lanterns made from toilet paper rolls are fun for kids to make and useful as decorations for their room and props in their games. This is another of our favorite easy toilet paper crafts for kids. They can just cut some slits in the side on the tubes and then push the ends up towards each other to get the paper lantern effect.
Don’t forget to decorate this easy craft with construction paper, markers, or acrylic paints.
4. Toilet Paper Roll Airplanes and Cars
Kids always love airplanes, jets, rocket ships, and cars and they will love getting to make their own! The airplanes are easy to fashion with the tube as the body and construction paper for the wings, tail, and nose. Use a marker to draw on the windows.
Cars can be made by laying the tube horizontally and cutting out a spot for the seat and steering wheel. Wheels can be made out of leftover cereal boxes and affixed with brass paper fasteners so that the cars can really move. Kids can paint the details on the cars or color with markers.
This is one of my son’s favorite toilet paper roll crafts for kids. Older kids are sure to lots of great ideas for personalizing these fun projects.
5. Toilet Paper Roll Flowers
Some of my favorite parts of spring are the flowers that start to bloom. You can have your kids make paper flowers using toilet paper rolls to create a beautiful spring arrangement.
6. Toadstool Crafts
Stand the toilet paper tube upright and allow you kids to color it. Then cut a hole for windows and door or draw them on. Make the toadstool lid out of construction paper shaping flat cones to glue onto the toilet paper “stems”.
This easy toilet paper roll craft is perfect for role play games.
7. Paper Tube Fairies
Draw fairies, use stickers, or make fairies from clothespins. This easy toilet paper roll craft is perfect for role play games. You can let your kids use their imagination to create their very own fairy kingdom.
Conclusion
Toilet paper rolls are a fantastic resource for kids to get creative and make something truly special. With these 7 easy toilet paper roll crafts for kids, you’ll be able to inspire your children to think outside the box and come up with their own unique ideas.
So next time you’re about to throw away a toilet paper roll, think twice and give one of these fun crafts a try!
