Creating crafts from toilet paper tubes is a good way to spend the evening with benefit and do something with your own hands in the family. Bushings can become the basis for creating a Christmas tree, a variety of organizers, bird feeders, cartoon characters and animals, heroes of New Year's matinees. It is enough to make very little effort so that the unremarkable cardboard becomes a beautiful and useful craft.
Organizers for every taste
The most useful crafts from toilet paper tubes are a wide variety of organizers: for pencils and stationery, wires and small electronics (headphones, flash drives, microphones), brushes, cosmetics, business cards, and much more. To make the simplest, it is enough to decorate the sleeve to your taste and, if necessary, glue a thick cardboard bottom.
For a desktop organizer for small things, it is necessary to assemble several toilet paper bushes and a base. The latter may be the upper part of the shoe box or other suitable cardboard container. This will facilitate the work, because you do not need to additionally cut the bottom for the organizer.
The matter remained small, because this craft of cardboard tubes from toilet paper is very simple. All details need only be decorated to your taste. You can use acrylic (or any other) paints, colored paper, threads and fabric, decorative elements (beads, rivets, sequins).
The bushings fit snugly into the base. Between them they can be glued with double-sided tape. It will turn out quite a capacious and convenient organizer, in which everything is in sight.
Easter egg baskets
Crafts from toilet tubes (bushings) will create a holiday atmosphere in the house with minimal cost of money and energy. The basket can be made with the children. Divide the sleeve into two or three parts across (first you need to outline with a simple pencil to get exactly), because the whole is too big for such an craft. Get two or three baskets.
Additionally, you need to prepare colored paper (yellow and green) and cardboard, scissors and PVA glue. Glue the basket with a layer of yellow colored paper. You may have to glue in two layers if the brown shade of the sleeve is visible. Cut a rectangle of green paper on one long side with a fringe, glue on top of the yellow base so that the fringe is at the top. If desired, you can add small flowers or chickens cut from colored paper.
It remains to attach a pen made of cardboard or wire. But first, they should be decorated. The cardboard handle can be wrapped with colored paper, the wire handle with thick threads. For this purpose, embroidery threads (floss) or yarn are well suited. So that the Easter eggs do not fall deep, and the basket can be moved, it is advisable to additionally cut out a circle from the cardboard along the diameter of the sleeve. And it is also necessary to make cuts from the center. So, the eggs will not fail.
Easter bunnies for decor
Even a child for kindergarten or elementary school can make DIY crafts from toilet paper tubes. Parents will only need help with scissors. Easter bunny is one of the simplest crafts from toilet paper tubes.
Measure two equal strips from the top of the sleeve, for example, one centimeter wide or slightly larger. These will be rabbit ears. Cut the strips and bend slightly in half to make the ears sharp. Now it remains only to decorate the base. The toilet paper sleeve can be painted with gouache or acrylic (the layer of paint will be more dense, and will not shine through or blur).
Draw a waterproof marker on the nose, mustache and sharp teeth of the Easter bunny when the paint dries. Eyes are better to buy special ones for toys. These are sold in needlework stores. If this is not possible, then the button eyes can be drawn with the same marker. Insert the ears on top, and secure with a drop of superglue or a thin strip of double-sided tape.
Christmas tree from rolls of toilet paper
New Year's crafts will allow long before the holiday to create a magical atmosphere at home, to decorate the space simply, quickly and budget. The master class of crafts from the tubes is very easy to repeat. To make a small Christmas tree, you need green and brown acrylic paint, scissors, nine toilet paper bushes, fifteen small Christmas balls, and superglue.
Cut the bushings in equal parts in half (across) so that their number doubles. Now paint fifteen parts with green acrylic paint and leave to dry. It is necessary to paint on the outside, if desired, it can also be inside. Paint two parts with brown paint.
When everything dries, glue the Christmas tree ball into the inner part of each of the fifteen parts of the bushings. You can start collecting the tree. The tubes can be fastened together with double-sided tape or super glue. The top layer is one part, then alternately two, three, four, five. Then the leg of the tree - two brown bushings.
Christmas house with surprises
For such an article from toilet paper tubes, you will need a lot of material. You need bushings, a cardboard box for shoes, materials for decor (colored paper, for example, or just acrylic paints of different colors), scissors, cardboard (you can use the upper part of the shoe box).
From cardboard, you need to make covers for the bushings, and on each write a number. The idea is to open one "window" within two to three weeks before the holiday. In each such box there is a small surprise: a candy or a small toy. This craft makes it possible for children to clearly understand how many days are left before the New Year, and makes waiting easier.
The bushings fit snugly into the box. Put a little surprise in each and close the lid. From another piece of cardboard you can make a roof (for decoration). It remains only if you want to decorate the house.
How to make New Year characters
New Year's crafts from toilet paper tubes is an opportunity to create a huge number of characters: snowmen, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, penguins, Christmas deer and so on. For such crafts, it is enough to prepare paints, colored paper, glue and scissors. For example, to make a snowman, it is enough to paint the sleeve white, cut out a strip of paper of any color (this will be a snowman’s scarf) and glue it, draw eyes, buttons, carrot nose.
Animals and favorite characters
A huge number of animals and cartoon characters can be made from bushes from toilet paper. For example, to make a little mermaid, you need colored paper in pink, green, purple and yellow, felt-tip pens (black, purple, green), PVA glue and scissors, and sparkles come in handy.
From pink colored paper you need to cut the hair for the little mermaid, from purple - a swimsuit, and from green - a ponytail. Draw the scales on the tail, you can put dots with sparkles. From yellow paper, cut a hair ornament - a starfish. All elements must be glued to the sleeve, finish the eyes and mouth.
Useful crafts from the bushings
Crafts from paper tubes can be not only beautiful, but also useful in everyday life. Organizers will help the child and adult to clean up the drawers of the table and put in place a huge amount of little things. It is very convenient to store wires and small electronics in such “boxes”. The bushings are enough to fit tightly in the shoe box, and neatly folded wires are placed in them.
Cardboard sleeves can come in handy when growing seedlings. This material will dissolve in the ground, so there is no need to disturb sprouted plants for transplanting into open ground. You can also make a treat for the birds from the sleeve, which will help the birds survive the winter. You need to make a grain mixture (or buy a finished one), roll the roller in something sticky (thick sweet syrup or liquid honey is suitable), and then mix it. Hang the sleeve outside the window and you can watch how the birds fly here to feast on it.