Easter bunny craft

Easter bunny craft

This cute and simple to make Easter bunny craft idea is perfect for both kids and grownups alike!

You will need

  • Clean tp roll
  • Paint
  • Coloured card
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Googly eyes
  • Pom pom
  • A pen

How to make this adorable Easter bunny craft idea!

Take your toilet paper roll, cover it in your chosen colour of paint and then pop it aside to dry.

Cut out two rounded outer ears and then two smaller coloured inner ears. Glue the inner ears onto the outer ears and then once dry stick the ears in place on the inside of the toilet roll tube.

Cut out two large feet then cut out the small circles and an oval shape from your colourful paper and stick them onto the feet to make the footprints.

Glue two large googly eyes onto the front of the roll and then add a small pom pom nose between the eyes.

Use a pen to draw on the rabbit’s mouth and whiskers and optionally stick on a small white rectangle for the teeth.

Finally add a fluffy pom pom to the back and your adorable Easter bunny craft is finished and ready to display or gift!

Tp roll snail craft

Tp roll snail craft

This adorable tp roll snail craft is so simple to make and is a great way to keep the kids entertained. Each snail turns out cool and unique which makes this a fun craft idea for at home and for groups too!

Here’s what we used

  • Cardboard Tp roll
  • Coloured Card
  • Pipe cleaner
  • Googly eyes
  • Scissors
  • Glue

How to make our tp roll snail craft.

Cut out a strip of coloured card the same height as the tp roll and long enough to cover it. Glue the card around the roll.

Cut out 5 strips of paper, they should be roughly equal in width but varying length. We initially cut ours to them same length and then dropped them by Two cm each time to give us strips that were 20cm, 18cm,16cm,14cm and 12cm.

Line up and glue all of the strips together at one end.

then line up and glue together the other end of the strips.

Stick the two ends of strips together to make the circular snail’s shell. then attach the shell at one end of the tp roll.

Finally take a pipe cleaner and fold it in half to make a v shape. Glue the folded end of the pipe cleaner into the top inside of the tp roll and then add a Googly eye onto each end of the pipe cleaner. Add some glue around the inside of the head end of the roll and then pinch it together to seal it. Once dry your cute tp roll snail craft is finished!

Toilet roll ghosts

Toilet roll ghosts

toilet roll ghost craft for kids

Spooky season is well under way in our house, we haven’t sorted out our costumes yet but we’ve been super busy making some fun homemade Halloween decorations. Today I wanted to share with you these cute little toilet roll ghosts! They’re so easy to make and look fab too.

Here’s what we used

  • TP roll
  • White paint and paintbrush
  • Black and white paper
  • Sticker eyes
  • Tissue paper
  • Scissors and glue

How to make our toilet roll ghosts!

Take the tp roll and cut a wavy edge into one end of it before painting it white and popping it aside to dry.

Once the toilet roll has dried, add two eyes and a mouth to the front.

toilet roll ghost craft for kids

Cut out two arms and glue them down in place on the back of the toilet roll ghost.

toilet roll ghost craft for kids

Cut out 3-5 long strips of tissue paper and glue them around the inside of the bottom of the toilet roll tube.

toilet roll ghost craft for kids

Optionally add some string to the top of the toilet roll and the ghost is ready to display!

Tp roll Halloween bats

Tp roll Halloween bats

toilet roll halloween bat craft for kids

Tomorrow is the first of October and that means it’s officially the start of spooky season! We can’t wait to start decorating the house and today we’ve been busy making these fun tp roll Halloween bats which we’re going to turn into a spooky garland for the conservatory. We still have plenty left to make on the weekend when my son is home but I think it’s going to look amazing!

Here’s what we used

  • Tp roll
  • Coloured paints and paintbrush
  • Coloured card
  • Pipe cleaner
  • Coloured paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue/tape

How to make these TP roll Halloween bats

Take the toilet roll and cover it in the chosen colour of paint before popping it aside to dry.

Cut out two triangle ears and glue a slightly smaller triangle onto each one to make the inner ears. Once the tp roll is dry attach the ears inside one end of the roll.

Cut out two white circle eyes and then glue a circle pupil onto each one. Glue the eyes on to the front of the bat then finish the face by adding a mouth and two pointy triangle fangs.

toilet roll halloween bat craft for kids

Next, Cut out the shape of the bat’s wings and stick them onto the back of the toilet roll bat.

toilet roll halloween bat craft for kids

Finally, Take the pipe cleaners and twist three loops in one end of each to make the feet. Stick the other end of the pipe cleaner leg down in place inside the bottom end of the toilet roll. Once dry your bat is ready to display!

Toilet roll humpback whale

Toilet roll humpback whale

toilet roll humpback whale ocean craft

We’re carrying on the whale theme today with this adorable toilet roll humpback whale craft! These little under the sea themed cuties were so much fun to make and my little boy as a huge lover of all things do with the ocean is just besotted with them!

They’re really simple and easy to make so why not give them a go with your little ones! We’d love to see how they turn out – did you know you know we now have a Facebook page? You can share them there!

Here’s what we used

  • Toilet roll
  • Blue, pink and white paint
  • coloured paper
  • Scissors
  • Paintbrush
  • Googly eye
  • Glue

How to make a toilet roll humpback whale

Take the toilet roll and paint the inside of one end pink. On the outside of the roll paint one half blue/grey and the other half white before popping aside to dry.

Cut out a whale’s tail shape and glue it in position on the inside of the paper roll (at the opposite end to the pink section) Next cut out two leaf shape flippers and fold a small tab at the end of each one which you can then use to glue them on either side of the tp roll body.

Once the paper roll is dry, take the black marker/crayon and draw several lines along the white section of the body to create the whale’s throat pleats.

toilet roll humpback whale craft

Glue a googly eye on either side of the whale and optionally you could always add a little dorsal fin using the same method as with the fins. Once totally dry and secure the toilet roll humpback whale is finished and ready to play with or display!