Creating crafts from toilet paper tubes is a good way to spend an evening with benefit and do something with your own hands with your family. Bushings can become the basis for creating a Christmas tree, a variety of organizers, bird feeders, cartoon characters and animals, heroes of New Year's parties. It only takes a little effort to turn an unremarkable cardboard box into a beautiful and useful craft.
Organizers for every taste
The most useful crafts made from toilet paper tubes are a wide variety of organizers: for pencils and stationery, wires and small electronics (headphones, flash drives, microphones), brushes, cosmetics, business cards and much more. To make the simplest, it is enough to decorate the sleeve to your taste and, if necessary, glue a thick cardboard bottom.
For a desktop organizer for small items, you need to collect several bushings from the toiletpaper and base. The latter can be the top of a shoe box or other suitable cardboard container. This will make it easier to work, because there is no need to additionally cut out the bottom for the organizer.
It's up to you, because this toilet paper tube craft is very simple. All details need only be decorated to your taste. You can use acrylic (or any other) paints, colored paper, threads and fabric, decorative elements (beads, rivets, sequins).
The bushings are firmly inserted into the base. They can be glued together with double sided tape. You will get a fairly roomy and convenient organizer in which everything is in plain sight.
Easter Egg Baskets
Crafts from toilet tubes (sleeves) will create a holiday atmosphere in the house with minimal money and energy. The basket can be made with the children. Divide the sleeve into two or three parts across (first you need to outline with a simple pencil to make it even), because the whole one is too big for such a craft. You will get two or three baskets.
Additionally, you need to prepare colored paper (yellow and green) and cardboard, scissors and PVA glue. Cover the basket with a layer of yellow colored paper. It may be necessary to glue in two layers if the brown shade of the sleeve is visible. Cut a rectangle of green paper on one long side with a fringe, glue it on top of the yellow base so that the fringe is at the top. Optionally, you can add small flowers or chickens,cut out of colored paper.
It remains to attach a handle made of cardboard or wire. But for starters, they should be decorated. A cardboard pen can be wrapped with colored paper, a wire pen with thick threads. Embroidery threads (mulina) or yarn are well suited for this purpose. So that Easter eggs do not fall deep, and the basket can be carried, it is advisable to additionally cut a circle out of cardboard along the diameter of the sleeve. And it is also necessary to make cuts from the center. So the eggs won't fall through.
Easter bunnies for decor
Even a child for kindergarten or elementary school can make DIY crafts from toilet paper tubes. The help of parents will be required only when working with scissors. The Easter Bunny is one of the easiest toilet paper tube crafts to make.
Measure two equal strips from the top of the sleeve, for example, one centimeter wide or a little more. These will be the ears of the rabbit. Cut off the strips and fold them in half slightly to make the ears sharp. Now it remains only to decorate the base. The toilet paper sleeve can be painted with gouache or acrylic (the paint layer will be more dense and will not shine through or blur).
Draw the Easter Bunny's nose, whiskers and sharp teeth with a waterproof marker when the paint dries. It is better to buy special eyes for toys. These are sold in craft stores. If this is not possible, then button eyes can be drawn with the same marker. Insert the ears from above and securea drop of superglue or a thin strip of double-sided tape.
Christmas tree made from toilet paper rolls
New Year's crafts will allow you to create a magical atmosphere at home long before the holiday, decorate the space simply, quickly and on a budget. The tube crafts master class is very easy to repeat. To make a small Christmas tree, you will need green and brown acrylic paint, scissors, nine toilet paper rolls, fifteen small Christmas balls, superglue.
Cut the bushings into equal parts in half (across) so that their number is doubled. Now paint the fifteen pieces with green acrylic paint and leave to dry. Be sure to paint the outside, if desired, you can also from the inside. Paint the two pieces brown.
When everything is dry, stick a Christmas ball on the inside of each of the fifteen pieces of bushings with tape. You can start collecting the Christmas tree. The tubes can be fastened together with double-sided tape or superglue. The top layer is one part, then alternately - two, three, four, five. Then the leg of the Christmas tree - two brown bushings.
Christmas house with surprises
For such crafts from toilet paper tubes, you will need a lot of material. Need sleeves, cardboard shoe box, decor materials (colored paper, for example, or just acrylic paints in different colors), scissors, cardboard (you can use the top of the shoe box).
From cardboardyou need to make caps for the bushings, and write a number on each. The idea is to open one window at a time for two to three weeks before the holiday. Each such box contains a small surprise: a candy or a small toy. This craft allows children to visually understand how many days are left until the New Year, and makes waiting easier.
The bushings fit tightly into the box. Put a little surprise in each and close the lid. From another piece of cardboard you can make a roof (for decoration). It remains only if you wish to decorate the house.
How to make Christmas characters
New Year's crafts from toilet paper tubes - this is an opportunity to create a huge number of characters: snowmen, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, penguins, Christmas deer and so on. For such crafts, it is enough to prepare paints, colored paper, glue and scissors. For example, to make a snowman, it is enough to paint the sleeve white, cut a strip of paper of any color (this will be a snowman scarf) and glue it, draw eyes, buttons, a carrot nose.
Animals and favorite characters
A huge number of animals and cartoon characters can be made from toilet paper rolls. For example, to make a little mermaid, you will need colored paper in pink, green, purple and yellow shades, felt-tip pens (black, purple, green), PVA glue and scissors, glitter will come in handy.
From pink colored paper, you need to cut hair forlittle mermaids, from purple - a swimsuit, and from green - a ponytail. Draw scales on the tail, you can put dots with sparkles. From yellow paper, cut out a hair ornament - a starfish. All elements need to be glued to the sleeve, finish the eyes and mouth.
Useful crafts from bushings
Crafts from paper tubes can be not only beautiful, but also useful in everyday life. Organizers will help a child and an adult to put things in order in the drawers of the table and put a huge number of little things in their places. It is very convenient to store wires and small electronics in such "boxes". Place the bushings tightly enough in the shoebox, and place neatly folded wires in them.
Cardboard sleeves can be useful when growing seedlings. This material will dissolve into the ground, so there is no need to disturb germinated plants for transplanting outdoors. You can also make a delicacy for the birds from the sleeve, which will help the birds survive the winter. You need to make a grain mixture (or buy a ready-made one), roll the roller in something sticky (thick sweet syrup or liquid honey will do), and then in the mixture. Hang the sleeve outside the window and you can watch how the birds fly here to feast.
