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If you’re looking for easy Christmas crafts for kids then you’ll love these Christmas toilet paper roll crafts. Kids love to create crafts with toilet paper rolls. The best part is that toilet paper rolls can be recycled into a Christmas craft activity. From the snowman to the elf – these will be a big hit for Christmas! We will show you how to turn your toilet paper rolls into 4 different Christmas characters and we know you will just love how they turn out!
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Save those paper rolls since you can create so many different fun Christmas crafts with them! Continue with the Christmas theme and make a Christmas tree, angel or penguin too.
This paper roll Christmas craft is a breeze to make and is so fun to put together.
We love how each paper roll has a different personality. You have the option to make a snowman, elf, Santa and reindeer. With just a few supplies, you can transform your toilet paper rolls into these adorable characters for Christmas!
Glue some ribbon to the back and you can even hang them on the Christmas tree!
Our book – Fun and Easy Crafting with Recycled Materials is bursting with toilet paper roll crafts like this one. We have a whole section of paper roll crafts. But not only that, there are other recycled crafts for kids too – newspaper, egg cartons, cardboard, popsicle sticks, jars and more!
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How to Make Toilet Paper Roll Christmas Crafts
Here are the 4 different toilet paper rolls we made with step-by-step instructions on how to make them.
Snowman:
1. Paint the toilet paper roll white.
2. Make the earmuffs by gluing the pipe cleaner over the top. Glue two medium sized white pom poms to the side.
3. Cut out a carrot nose from orange cardstock and glue down.
4. Cut out a strip for the scarf and then wrap around the paper roll and glue down.
5. Glue on two black buttons.
6. Draw on the mouth and eyes with a black sharpie.
Santa:
1. Paint the paper roll with the color of your choice for the face.
2. Make the hat by cutting out a small circle (approx 3.5 inches wide) from red glitter paper. Cut one slit into the circle so that you can form the hat. Cut off any extra paper when you roll around to form the hat.
3. Glue the hat to the top of the paper roll.
4. Stretch out some cotton balls and glue to the brim of the hat. Glue the white pom pom to the top.
5. Glue on the googly eyes and pom pom nose.
6. Glue a strip of red glitter paper to the bottom of the paper roll.
7. Glue cotton balls all around for the beard and add two to the side of the nose for a mustache.
8. Glue on 2 black buttons on top of the red glitter paper.
Reindeer:
1. Using a plain toilet paper roll (or you can paint it brown), cut out the top center on the front and back.
2. For the pieces sticking up still, make 4 slits on each side and then pull these apart to make them look like antlers.
3. Glue on two googly eyes and a pom pom nose.
Elf:
1. Paint the paper roll with the color of your choice for the face.
2. Similar to the Santa, make the hat by cutting out a small circle (approx 3.5 inches wide) from green glitter paper. Cut one slit into the circle so that you can form the hat. Cut off any extra paper when you roll around to form the hat.
3. Glue the hat to the top of the paper roll.
4. Stretch out some cotton balls and glue to the brim of the hat. Glue a white pom pom to the top.
5. Glue on the googly eyes and pom pom nose.
6. Draw on the mouth. Add two small light pink paint circles to the cheeks.
7. Add a strip of green glitter paper to the bottom.
8. Glue two red buttons on top.
9. Cut out 2 elf ears from another paper roll, paint them the same color as the face then slightly fold back the end to glue to the sides of the paper roll.
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