Paper Towel Roll Crafts

Paper towel rolls crafts are best way to convert waste material into a useful craft. Making such paper crafts is a wonderful method of promoting recycling household waste. The crafts that can be made from these cardboard rolls are innumerable. Candles, puppets, pencil holders are some of the kids craft ideas that can be made from such toilet paper rolls. To make these toilet paper roll crafts, all you require is some imagination and few accessories to decorate the craft. Given below are some simple steps to make such crafts from paper towel.

Paper Towel Roll Crafts - Cute Little Chicken
This is a very simple paper towel roll craft, that can be used as a pen or pencil stand. The material required for this craft are,

• Wiggly eyes
• Yellow colored craft paper
• Glue
• Scissors
• Color pens/Crayons
• Toilet paper roll
• Template paper

Procedure: First take a plain white paper and draw the wings, feet and beak of the chicken. Cut these parts with the help of a pair of scissors and color them with yellow, brown and red respectively. Now, keep them aside and take the yellow craft paper. Cut the paper to roll it over the toilet paper roll. Glue this paper to the cardboard roll and mark the position to stick the wings, feet and beak. Paste these parts at their respective positions. Mark two circles for the eyes and glue wiggly eyes in those circles. Take a cardboard paper and cut it into a solid circle that will set to the base of the toilet paper roll. Paste this circular cardboard to its base. Use sparkle colors and artificial feathers to decorate the pen/pencil stand.

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Paper Towel Roll Crafts - Robot
This is one more simple paper towel craft, that can be used to make toys for your kids. The material required to make this robot are given below:

• Pipe cleaners (2)
• Toilet paper roll
• Scissors
• Glue
• Aluminum foil
• Wiggly eyes
• Color pens/Crayons
• Stapler
• Construction papers - Blue, Red and Yellow

Procedure: Take the aluminum foil and cut it to a size such that it will completely wrap the toilet paper tube. Once you cut the aluminum foil glue it to the toilet paper roll properly. Tuck on the excess foil into tube's ends. Now take the construction papers to prepare the different parts of robot's body. Some of the parts can be, rectangular face, a control panel, switches, etc. To prepare the control panel, cut the blue construction paper in square shape. The length of the square should be a bit less than the diameter of the toilet paper roll. Then draw small black dots on this paper to form a matrix of 3 x 3. These black dots can be treated as buttons of the control panel. Use the red and yellow construction papers to prepare the square shaped face of the robot. Glue two wiggly eyes to this face. Then staple two pipe cleaners at the top of toilet paper to make the antennas of the robot. Your robot from paper towel roll is ready.

So, do not throw away the left over cardboard rolls of toilet paper at your home. Use the ideas mentioned in the above given paper towel roll crafts ideas and prepare a unique craft out of it. You can also use these rolls to make Halloween crafts and Christmas crafts. Further, these crafts can also be used in a number of ways, like homemade party favors, inexpensive toys for your kids and many more.