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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with these recycled Toilet Paper Roll Love Bugs! Save up your paper rolls out and turn them into these adorable love bugs for Valentine’s Day!
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These paper roll love bugs come together quickly and are customizable! Kids will love mixing and matching colors, wings, and antennae.
If you love paper roll crafts, see our recycled craft for kids book.
These love bugs make the cutest Valentines to give to friends and family. Use them for Valentine decorations, or add a bottom to them and fill them with treats.
Supplies Needed
- Empty toilet paper rolls – 1 per love bug (or you can cut down paper towel rolls)
- Colored paper – in shades of pink, red, and purple
- Pipe cleaners – to make the antenna
- Pom poms – 0.8 cm across, 2 per love bug
- Googly eyes – 3/8″ across, 2 per love bug
- Hot glue gun – used with adult assistance
- White glue – or tacky glue
- Clear tape
- Scissors
- Black marker – to draw on the mouth
- Red paint – for the rosy cheeks
- Paintbrush – to use the end for stamping the cheeks
- Printable wing template – found at the bottom of the post
Watch the Video Tutorial!
How to Make Toilet Paper Roll Love Bugs
1. Make the body.
Cut a piece of colored paper that is 4″ tall by 6″ long – this is just the right size to wrap around the outside of a standard toilet paper roll.
If you’re using a paper towel roll cut down to size make sure to cut your paper to the size that covers your unique roll size.
Wrap the paper around the toilet paper roll and use clear tape or glue to secure it in place.
2. Make the wings.
Print and cut out the free printable template found at the bottom of the post.
Trace the wings and wing details onto different shades of colored paper and cut them out.
Glue the small hearts onto the larger wing heart shape.
Use tacky glue or hot glue to glue the wings to the back of the paper roll.
3. Make the antenna.
Cut a piece of pipe cleaner about 3.75″ long and fold into a V shape.
Hot glue the base of the V inside the front of the paper roll (with adult assistance). You can also use a sticky adhesive glue dot or tacky glue (just allow enough time to dry).
Glue a pom pom onto the end of each antenna.
4. Add the googly eyes and mouth.
Use white or tacky glue to glue 2 googly eyes onto the front of the paper roll.
Draw on a small mouth with a black marker.
Dip the end of a paintbrush into red paint and stamp on 2 rosy cheeks below the eyes.
Once the paint has dried, your love bug is complete!
