For creative activities with children or their own hobby, various materials are used. The most easily accessible, not requiring huge financial costs and allowing you to create unusual work - this is ordinary toilet paper. Crafts from toilet paper are available even to the smallest children.

The development of creativity in the baby brings up a comprehensively developed personality. The baby learns to use and use everyday things in the most unusual way. The child develops imagination, there is a further development of fine motor skills.

Using toilet paper, you can create many products for decorating the interior, as well as toys for the puppet theater, paintings and papier-mâché works. Rolls of toilet paper are used in crafts completely - both the toilet paper itself and the tube are used. Useful gizmos for home are made from bobbins.

• Applications. The softness of the paper material is very important for creating a volumetric applique to give a smooth and natural form to the work.
• Toys New Year and for puppet shows at home.
• Papier-mâché works.
• Pictures, panels.
• Original packaging for gifts.
• Stands for pencils and jewelry. Creating a variety of organizers.

Huge scope for creativity - these are DIY paper crafts. The kid, together with his mother, can collect a whole zoo or do useful things that will help to restore order in the house. A great advantage of such activities is lightness and speed. The child does not have time to get tired of classes and can quickly see the result of his work.

Getting ready for work

To create do-it-yourself crafts from toilet rolls, you need to prepare the following materials:

• Tubes of toilet paper. The more bushings prepared, the wider the range of children's work.
• Glue. They usually use PVA glue, which is great for working with similar material.
• Paints, pencils, felt-tip pens.
• Toilet rolls: multi-colored and white.
• Scissors. To prevent babies from injuring, choose scissors with rounded tips.

To create products using the papier-mâché technique, it is necessary to prepare:

• paste:
• pVA glue;
• toilet paper;
• plasticine;
• acrylic paints and putty;
• plastic basin;
• water and a hand towel.

Toys from the sleeve

The first crafts from a toilet paper tube can be animal figures. These works are simple to manufacture and will really please the baby.

• To make a bunny, owl or cartoon character, make bobbins. Paint them in different colors or paste over with colored paper.
• From the received color rolls cut 2 rings, they are useful for the bunny ears. Glue the ears with the lower end inside the tubes. Help the baby draw a muzzle of a bunny.

If you attach paws, tail and muzzle to the resulting multi-colored bobbin, then in this way you can make a whole zoo for crumbs or collect fairy tale heroes.

It is very easy to make an octopus out of such a roll. To do this, glue thin paper strips on the bottom of the sleeve and twist them with scissors. You can simply cut the bottom of the paper reel into narrow strips. You get a nice octopus.

For preschool children 5-6 years old, it is possible to make more complex figures. For crafts, you need to wrap in one of the ends of the tube and connect. Get ears. Most often, owls are made in this way. If you wrap both ends of the sleeve, you get a bag for a gift.

Engaged in crafts from toilet rolls, you can arrange races from made cars. Cut a driver hole in the middle of the roll. For cars, wheels made of cardboard must be glued to the tube, and the race car is ready.

In winter, when the birds suffer from a lack of food, offer the child to make a bird feeder. To do this, roll a cardboard roll in honey, peanut butter. Dip the obtained sticky surface into a handful of seeds or grains. Hang such a feeder near the house so that the baby watches the birds during the walk.

We make an organizer

Crafts from toilet paper tubes can be of use to scattered children. For them, you can make a real organizer in which the baby puts pencils, pens, scissors. The task of any organizer is a compact arrangement of stationery. The baby himself will choose how many sections of the organizer he needs to make, what size, how to color the elements of the craft.

If desired, the child can always expand his personal organizer. In his work, the fidget will combine boxes of different sizes along with crafts from toilet rolls. Tubes can be placed vertically, then under the base you need to prepare a sheet of thick cardboard, wooden square or circle.

If the kid wants to store paper and paints in the organizer, then small boxes are best placed in the foreground of the composition. Place the bushings behind the boxes and stick one side to the base. Before gluing, decorate the tubes and boxes. Glue the details of the organizer with colored paper, paint with felt-tip pens or paints, or stick colored strips - paper, or from pieces of cloth.

Caterpillar

The kid will like the pencil caterpillar. Multi-colored bushings are glued together, creating the body of the caterpillar. The baby caterpillar head can be drawn and cut independently. Such a product looks beautifully decorated with bright corrugated paper.

Garage

A variety of crafts from toilet rolls is the key to the child's constant interest in creativity. To teach the crumbs to order, invite him to make a garage for cars from cardboard tubes. In the large box, starting from the bottom, glue the toilet paper grommets. Each empty tube will serve as a garage for cars.

Crafts from bobbins from toilet paper will help the baby develop imagination, accustom to cleanliness and order. The baby will be happy to design his own room or shelves for toys.

Conclusion

School children have successfully mastered methods for making crafts from toilet paper and PVA glue. Already in kindergarten, they receive basic knowledge on how to glue materials with different textures. Step-by-step creation of figures from papier-mâché can be seen in special master classes.

Crafts from toilet paper can become an original toy or a necessary thing in the household. From this accessible material you can make real works of art, showing imagination and applying their abilities. Rollers from rolls, which are considered garbage, but in fact can still serve as a master, become an excellent ornamental material. The joint work of parents with children is an important stage in education and instills an aesthetic perception, and a toilet paper roll is a material that, due to its versatility and cheapness, is accessible to everyone.

Material Features

Toilet paper is soft and loose in structure, which makes it easy to soak it with paint or glue, dissolve in water to obtain a plastic mass. Decorative corrugation gives small corrugation.

Also of interest are the rollers (bushings) on which the coils are wound.

What areas in DIY do-it-yourself activities are most in demand? In a flat version, toilet paper can be used for wall decoration, creating paintings, decoupage, various applications. The softness of the structure allows the production of volumetric models. One of the most common methods is papier-mâché and sculpting. Volume applications look beautiful. Natural look bouquets of toilet paper.

Attention!The main advantages of such crafts are simplicity and speed of manufacture, as well as the availability of raw materials.

In the work, you can use both white toilet paper and rolls of different colors. The material is combined with cardboard, plasticine, fabric, plastic. You will need PVA glue, paints (watercolor, gouache, acrylic paints), felt-tip pens, pencils. The main tools are scissors, brushes for glue and paints. The stapler, which can be used to fasten paper elements, will facilitate work. When working with rollers, a knife, a jigsaw or a hacksaw for metal is useful.

Papier-mâché - craft making technique

Papier-mâché is a technique that allows you to create beautiful three-dimensional figures, and toilet paper in combination with glue and binders becomes a material for modeling. There are several ways:

1. Mash (multi-layer papier-mâché). This is a method of making crafts from toilet paper and PVA glue. The paper is torn into small pieces, which are placed on the surface of a vase, plate or figure fashioned from plasticine, layers and smeared with glue.
2. Preparation of plastic mass. The paper is divided into fibers or dissolved, and then mixed with glue, forming a dense monolithic mass, similar to plasticine. Putty or alabaster can be added to this mixture for strength. Any figures are created from it that retain their shape after drying.
3. Coarse mass. Toilet paper is wrinkled and impregnated with paste, and an excellent material for modeling is obtained.

Crafts from papier-mâché can be made in a thin-walled or solid (monolithic) version. In the first case, plates, cups, vases, masks are created. The dishes can be made by machining or from plastic mass. To do this, paper impregnated with glue is applied to the bowl in several layers. After solidification, the workpiece is removed from the base, painted, varnished. Impressive masks in the African style, which are made by applying a plastic mass to the appropriate workpiece, followed by the formation of facial elements.

Creating monolithic figures is similar to modeling from plasticine. The main advantage of papier-mâché is ductility before hardening and strength. From this material it is possible to make toys, dolls of various complexity and sizes.

Paper crafts

You can make a variety of paper crafts. You might think about how to make a rose out of toilet paper. To do this, roll paper segments 40-45 cm long from the roll. Then they are bent in half in the longitudinal direction. One of the halves is bent to the side and down, and then again, but already towards the second half. A piece of paper crumbles to form the core of the flower. The prepared strips are twisted in a spiral around the core, forming a rosette. The extreme petals are bent to the side to give splendor. In the lower part, the flower is fastened with glue, tape or with a stapler.

Toilet paper is easily impregnated with liquid, so it is enough to dilute the pigment of the desired color in water and lower the rosette into it for coloring. You can select certain elements (for example, the edge of a petal) in a more saturated color using a brush. The stalk is formed of thin wire wrapped in green corrugated paper, artificial leaves are attached to it.

By a similar technology, you can make a volumetric application of flowers. In this case, the height of the flower cup is much lower, so the paper roll is first cut in half. The core is also formed from a paper ball in the shape of a ball, and then cut along the center line. In order to prevent it from breaking up when cutting, it can be preliminarily coated with glue at the upper and lower points. The rest of the technology is similar to the manufacture of bulk roses. The flower is attached to the plane (cardboard) or directly to the wall using double-sided tape. Green leaves are glued between the flowers, and the branches are drawn with a felt-tip pen.

Decoupage from toilet paper is also popular. In this technique, you can make a vase from a glass or plastic bottle:

1. The paper is cut into strips and painted in various colors (you can use colored toilet paper).
2. The surface of the container is wrapped in stripes, a drawing is applied using the application.
3. Vase is varnished.

Using center sleeves

A cardboard sleeve can be a wonderful ornamental material. The popularity is due to the cylindrical shape and sufficient strength, as well as suitable sizes.

This cardboard cylinder is easy to cut in all directions and paints well. When creating crafts, it can be pasted over with paper or cloth. It goes well with other materials.

Kids toys

Simple, but bright and original toys - this is the first thing that a child wants to make from rolls of toilet paper. There are many options for such crafts:

1. Zoo. From the bushings you can make figures of animals. It is important to choose the right color: for a fox it is orange, a hare is gray, a parrot is multi-colored, etc. From dense colored paper, the necessary additional details are cut out - ears, paws, wings. The tail can be made of wire or cord. The muzzle is drawn directly on the roller or glued as an application. You can use a ready-made face cut from a magazine. Felt pens and gouache are used for decoration.
2. Compound animals. More complex figures can be made from several rollers and inserts of their other improvised materials. For example, a good dog is obtained if its head is made of a small segment of the sleeve and secured to a threaded rod. This mount allows you to turn your head in different directions. It is better to make the animal in a supine position, i.e. stick paws along the body of a long roller. The color should match the breed of the dog. Another option is to set the torso vertically and fix it on top of the ball (for example, foam). The head of an animal is drawn on it. An easier way is to cut in the upper part of the body, in which the head is cut out, cut out of thick cardboard. In this case, the pattern should be on both sides.
3. Puppet show. The characters from the home puppet theater may well be dolls from toilet paper clips. The bushings are painted, the necessary parts are attached. The man’s hair can be made of thread or paper strips. Hands and feet are made of thick cardboard. When movably connected to the body, the figure can be controlled using threads. At the bottom of the roller you need to insert a wooden rod, which allows you to hold the figure at the desired height.
4. The cylindrical sleeve is a ready-made housing for a racing car. From above it is necessary to carefully cut a window with an elliptical shape with a knife. Inside, the seat and steering wheel are installed. You can put a small man from the constructor of Lego. The wheels are cut from a similar cardboard sleeve and secured to the body. The front end of the roller is closed with a cardboard round on which the original radiator is drawn. Above the "car" you can fix the aerodynamic wing.

Practical crafts

From clips from toilet paper, you can make crafts that are useful in everyday life. One of the common areas is clerical organizers. Parts are assembled from rollers of different lengths, which are mounted vertically on a rigid base made of thick cardboard, plywood or plastic. The basis at the discretion of the author has a round or rectangular shape.

For small items and laying pens or pencils, trays are installed in the organizer. They are made by cutting the roller in half in the longitudinal direction. These elements are mounted on the base in a horizontal position.

Idea!You can decorate the stand with colored paper, apply paint and varnish.

If the child is passionate about radio and electronics, then he always has many different wires that are constantly mixed up and interfere with work. Of the rollers from the toilet paper, you can build a kind of storage. This is the same organizer in which the cells (sleeves) are located horizontally, right next to each other.

New Year crafts

Many ideas arise from home masters for the New Year. Rolls of toilet paper can serve as ornamental material for their embodiment:

1. Santa Claus. Even a small child can make a figure of Santa Claus from a toilet paper clip. A face is drawn at the top. Hair and beard are formed from pieces of cotton wool. On the head is a cardboard cap. The body should be wrapped with red or blue paper. The fur collar is made of cotton, and the edging is made of strips of white paper.
2. Balls. Inflated balloon. A layer of papier-mâché 3-5 mm thick is applied over it. After hardening the mass, the ball is punctured and removed. A paper ball is immersed in a solution of paint. You can decorate it with sparkles, beads, tinsel.

Toilet paper is actively used for decoupage. With it, you can update old Christmas decorations or make new ones. The base can be made of foam. A layer of toilet paper is applied on top, which is painted and varnished.

Toys from toilet paper and bushes can decorate any holiday, making it brighter and more fun.

You can use any material at hand, even toilet paper, to spend time with your child and doing creative work. Crafts from paper and toilet rolls will help develop creativity, lability of thinking of the child, realize their creative potential.

Toilet paper applications

From toilet paper, you can create beautiful applications and voluminous crafts. For example, from a roll and colored paper you can make a cute cat. To create it, you need to prepare:

• toilet paper roll;
• glue;
• scissors;
• colored paper;
• felt-tip pens;
• cardboard.

1. We take cardboard and cut out parts of the body: head, legs, tail.
2. We cut out a similar shape of the body part from paper of the color that the kitten will be (for example, yellow).
3. We take felt-tip pens, draw strips, fingers and a muzzle.
4. We glue the roll of toilet paper in the same color as the body parts of the cat.
5. We glue all the components of the kitten to the body: head, tail, paws.

Such a kitten will delight kids with its presence. It can be used for games in a puppet theater.

Crafts from the remnants of toilet paper

It would seem, for what else can you use the remnants of toilet paper. But, having included imagination and fantasy, one can find application for the remnants. For example, make a lamb applique out of paper. It is very simple to do and the craft does not require special preparations, just take the rest of the toilet paper, white and black sheets of paper, thick cardboard and glue.

Crafts from toilet tubes

In addition to the paper itself, you can use tubes for crafts. They can be folded into intricate patterns, cut, creating interesting patterns. Such crafts from toilet rolls will help to decorate the walls in the room.

From the tubes you can make animals, birds.

For example, an owl is made quite simply. It is necessary to cut out eyes, beak and wings from colored paper, stick it all on a tube. You can make colorful owls and plant them on a Christmas tree, using, thus, as an additional New Year decoration.

And you can try to build a whole city from rolls of toilet paper.

Thus, you can create a small town with small houses.

Any creative activity contributes to the versatile development of the child. And the use of improvised tools for crafts will teach you to take care of every thing. When creating crafts from leftovers, using improvised means (bags, toilet paper, napkins), the child learns to think creatively and find application for any item in the house. A joint pastime with mom only strengthens the emotional connection and helps to form a more trusting and friendly relationship between parent and child.

Needlework is an amazing pastime! A variety of little things, household items, office, small natural materials are used. What about custom material like toilet paper? At first glance, it might seem that this is not quite suitable material for crafts.

But the crafts from toilet rolls look very original. This material is in every home, it is not expensive, and bushes from waste paper are often simply thrown away.

In fact, toilet paper opens up a whole horizon of interesting ideas for children's crafts. And some crafts can be useful in everyday life.

It can't be easier

Before you begin the creative process, you need to stock up on materials. Keep bushings away from paper. When working with bushings, paint, brushes, markers, colored paper and more are useful.

Animals from the bushings

Depending on the age of your baby, you can start with the simplest. For example, you can make a whole puppet ensemble of animals.

The sleeve serves as the body of the animal. Therefore, paint or paste it in the appropriate color of the animal color. Bunny - gray, fox - orange, penguin - black and white.

After the work done, make additional elements in the form of ears, paws, nose, beak and so on. Stick all parts to appropriate places. The result is simple but vibrant animals to play with.

An unusual craft can be an octopus. Body painted in blue. After that, cut the lower part evenly into strips. The width of the strips is approximately one centimeter, the depth is up to the middle of the sleeve. To bend all received strips outside. It remains only to stick eyes and draw a smile. The underwater friend is ready!

Pencil holder

Making pencils is also a simple process. In addition, the resulting item has practical benefits.

To make the product stable, it is better to use 3-4 bushings. First glue the decorated bushings together, then glue them on a cardboard base.

You can make sleeves in the form of birds from the computer game "Angry birds". As you can see in the photo of toilet paper crafts, this option is simple and very similar to the characters in the game. First you need to glue the cardboard tube with colored paper. Eyebrows, eyes, beak cut separately from the corresponding colored cardboard. Stick all the elements into place.

If you approach the process scrupulously, such cup holders can become a worthy gift and your child will be able to present them by going to visit someone.

Pin Skittles

Glue the blanks in different colors. Number each skittle. You can play bowling without leaving your home.

Car

Glue the blank in red or yellow color of a sports car. Round wheels cut out of black cardboard. From white cardboard, cut out circles of smaller diameter - these are wheels, and stick on black blanks. Stick the finished wheels to the appropriate places.

An important detail is the driver's seat. Cut a round or rectangular hole in the center of the sleeve. Glue the back into the resulting opening. To convey the similarities with a real racing car, draw a number on the body.

Making crafts from toilet paper bushes is a very simple, straightforward process. At the same time, he is able to give you and your child a whole evening of interesting games.

If the child is already more diligent and ready for new achievements, try to make more complex products.

Snow woman

To make a snowman, you need white and pink soft toilet paper, paints and a brush.

Unwound white paper into a bundle. After the work done, wind the tourniquet into a ball, but not very tightly. Fill the end of the paper in the middle of the ball.

Make three balls of different sizes. To make pens using a similar technique. Using glue, glue all the elements together.

Make a hat out of pink paper. Make a ring from the pink tow, and glue the ends together. In the same way, make another ring - a smaller diameter. The third ring is very small. Using glue, lay the rings on top of each other in the form of a pyramid. It should be a snow cap.

The basis for the design will serve as a sheet of cardboard. To give snow cover, lay out a bundle of paper in a circle, previously lubricating the cardboard with glue.

Glue the snow woman to the center of the base. Using gouache, draw eyes, nose, cheeks and mouth. This craft can be a wonderful decoration for a child’s room in winter.

A variety of crafts from this material is limited only by imagination. But in this case, the Internet comes to the rescue. As an option, you can make a castle, glasses, cups, houses and much more.

Decorative ornaments

For a child of school age, you can raise the level of difficulty and make new crafts from toilet paper.

Garland

A garland of paper sleeves can be a good decoration for a family or theme party. Stick on the tubes printed on the printer photos or the necessary drawings. String all bushings on a dense thread like beads in a beads. Attach the resulting garland to the wall with buttons. Decorate the places of attachment to the wall with bows.

Tree with photos

If photos are hanging on your wall, you can use them to decorate them in the form of a family tree. Cut the sleeve into rings. Thickness is up to you. From the rings obtained, make leaflets. To do this, the ring must be squeezed on both sides to obtain the desired shape.

The resulting leaves should be painted green. Additionally - cut branches of a tree from black or brown cardboard. Using double-sided tape, stick all elements between photos.

This composition looks much more original.

Useful crafts

Crafts from toilet paper tubes can carry not only aesthetic, but also semantic load in the house.

Wire holder

Alternatively, wire holders can be made from them. So that many wires and headphones are not mixed up in the drawer, they can be inserted into toilet tubes.

Previously, the tubes are fastened together or flush against the shoe box and placed on the bottom of the drawer.

Seedling tanks

If you collect the tubes all year, in the spring they can be laid out in a plastic tray and sprinkle soil on them. They will cope with the assigned task no worse than peat pots.

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