Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts

Use these craft ideas to work on building speech and language with your child. These crafts are wonderful for eliciting sounds and words as well as working on repetition. Please note some of the pages may take a few seconds to load. It's worth the wait! Resource information provided by artistshelpingchildren.org.

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Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - A

Aunt Sally - Make Aunt Sally out of a paper towel roll.

Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - B

Binoculars - Make binoculars out of 2 paper towel rolls.

Box Guitar - This is an easy way to make a guitar using an old shoe box or tissue box, rubber bands, scissors, a paper-towel tube, and a pencil.

Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - C

Cardboard Roll Puppets - Instructions to make home made puppets from cardboard toilet paper roll.

Kwanzaa Candles - Make candles (called mishumaa in Swahili) containing secret treats to decorate your Kwanzaa celebration table. These simple-to-make candles are a great table decoration that can be given to children as an after-dinner treat.

Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - D

Doll Craft - You can design your Kachina doll to represent anything you'd like. You can make it from a toilet paper tube, paint, fabric, felt, feathers, beads, and other items found around the house.

Dinosaur Bone Craft- You can make your very own dinosaur bone from a big cardboard tube, newspaper and flour. This is a messy craft - wear old clothes and work outside if possible.

Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - I

Insects and Bugs - Make insects and bugs out of paper towel and toilet power rolls.

Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - H

Modular Modern House - Make a mini house using a shoe box, cardboard, and paper towel roll.

Lincoln Hat Craft- Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the USA, used to wear a black stovepipe hat. You can make a tiny version of Lincoln's stovepipe hat using a toilet paper tube and black construction paper.

Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - P

Puppets - Make cool puppets out power towel rolls.

Picture Viewer - Start out with a paper towel roll and go from there.

Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - R

Rainstick - This rainstick is definitely not traditional. It is made from a cardboard tube (instead of the dried cactus) and aluminum foil (in place of cactus spines).

Rice-a-Raca - Instructions for making a maraca out of a cardboard toilet tissue roll and rice.

Robot Craft- You can make a shiny robot from a toilet paper tube and aluminum foil.

Rocket Craft- This craft makes a rocket ship from a paper towel tube and construction paper.

Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - S

Sunflower Craft - These giant sunflowers are made from small paper plates, a paper towel tube, sunflower seeds, and construction paper. You can make an entire bouquet of them for a great gift or summer decoration.

USA Friends - Make yourself one of about 100 possible Independence Day tp roll critters like Blue's Clues, Scooby Doo, Pikachu, a mouse, a hippo,... you get the idea!

Totem Pole - Make a Totem Pole from a paper towel tube.

 

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