It’s been sometime since we last did a toilet paper roll craft. Today, let’s make a toilet paper roll jet 
Toilet Paper Roll Jet
Glue the egg carton to the toilet paper roll as what we did previously for the toilet paper roll plane. Refer to it here.
Paint it with the colour of your choice
Cut the necessary shapes out of coloured foam for the wings
Stick yellow cellophane sheets as the flame at the end of the jet 
Refer to the video we shared on how to cut letters from paper here and we’ll be making alphabet teaching aid again today.
Today’s lucky letter is B.
B is for Butterfly
Cut a B out of a piece of paper.
Use that paper B as a guide to draw the outline on a piece of colored foam
Use craft punch to punch out colourful circles and paste all over the B.
It’s Valentine’s Day today and we are making a cute cupid out of toilet paper roll
Toilet Paper Roll Cupid
Paint a toilet paper roll pink
Paste eyes onto the roll. Alternatively you may dip your finger into white paint and print it as the eyes, paint black for the eyeball.
Draw the mouth
You’ll need some aluminium foil
Twist the foil until you get a strip and shape it into a wing. Repeat until you get a pair of wings
Use cellophane tape to tape the wings into place
Cut a strip of white paper and paste onto the cupid. Get some cotton and paste it too as the hair
Use pipe cleaner and craft foam and make the bow and arrow.
Glue the arrow and bow onto the cupid and you are done!
Happy Valentine’s Day y’all
Mek…. Mek…. My first time attempting a goat craft 
Toilet roll goat
Paint a toilet roll brown
Use cotton as the beard and foam and felt for the rest.
Mek Mek is done. I’d prefer the ears to be slimmer and eyes not too big though
We need to eat a lot of popsicles to do this
Craft stick stationery holder
Get a toilet paper roll tube, the bigger the better.
Draw a circle on a hardboard box, cut and paste.
Spread some glue
Put an elastic band in the middle and insert the craft sticks.
The band is to hold the sticks in place.
Glue the craft stick all around the toilet paper roll tube.
Tie a string around it.
And you are done. You may also add some little bugs as deco.
It’s a bird…. It’s a plane.. Yeah… It’s a PLANE!
Toilet roll airplane
Glue egg carton and toilet roll together
Paint the toilet roll
Let them dry
Paint windows on the plane. Use hairdryer to expedite the drying process. Read more about it here.
Use colored craft foams as the wings and deco
The plane is ready to fly
The kids and their planes
Rudolph the red nose reindeer… we’ll be making one today
Handprint Reindeer
Draw the outline of your handprint on a piece of paper and cut
Use that handprint template and draw on a brown craft foam
Cut a small oval and paste as the tail
Bend some pipe cleaners and paste on the reindeer’s head. Paste other small details.
Paste googly eyes and you are done
We did a very interesting art piece today
Handprint Santa Claus
First paint your palm white
Stamp the painted palm onto a darker coloured paper
Paint your thumb red
Stamp the painted thumb as Santa’s nose
Paint your thumb pink
And stamp as the Santa’s cheeks
Paint your thumb white and stamp as the eyes
Cut the Santa’s hat out of red felt. We use red foam as I happened to run out of felt! Improvise!
Paste on some cotton too
Paste a cotton ball at the end of the hat
Paint your pointer black and stamp as Santa’s eyeball and you are done
Handprint Santa – featuring cute kiddos Cavan of Life Muses and Ethel of Ling in De House
Victoria Ruby Azevedo gave me this idea through our Facebook Fan Club page and I tried it out with Ethan. This is our outcome
Toilet Paper Roll Tree
Paint the toilet paper roll brown
Let it dry
Cut a tree top out of a green foam
Use a single hole punch, punch out red little 'apples'
Glue the 'apples' onto the tree top
Cut a slit on both opposite sides
Insert the tree top and your toilet paper roll tree is done
Thank you Victoria for the great idea
Refer to the video we shared on how to cut letters from paper here and we’ll be making alphabet teaching aid again today.
Today’s lucky letter is O.
O is for Octopus
Cut an O out of a piece of paper.
Use that paper O as a guide to draw the outline on a piece of colored foam.
Cut eight tentacles for the octopus.
Use hole punch and punch some circle foams.
Paste the small circles onto the tentacles.
Glue the decorated tentacles onto the O and you are done
When we go out shopping, we like to sample food given by the promoters and always end up with lots of paper cups in hand. Instead of just disposing them, if they are used to serve you cereals or any dry food, chances are they are still clean. Let’s do Mother Nature a favour and recycle those paper cups. Let’s transform them into pretty flowers
Paper Cup Flower
See this paper cup? Don’t throw them away.
Let’s make a flower out of it
Cut all around the paper cup
Cut a circle out of craft foam and paste.
Any color of your choice.
Glue a craft stick at the back. Let it dry.
Your simple paper cup flower is done
Remember the video I shared on how to cut letters out of paper here ? Well, we are going to make use of our new found skill and make learning the alphabets so much FUN!
From today onwards we are going to make random alphabet craft projects. We are going to start with the letter D. We are going to make a Dino teaching aid
D for Dinosaur
Cut out a D and outline it on a brown foam or any color of your choice.
That letter D will be the prominent feature in this craft
Using other colors except brown, cut out body parts from craft foams.
I refrain from using brown again as we need the letter D to stand out.
Glue onto the letter D
Cut out shapes for decorative purposes and glue onto the dinosaur
The Dinosaur is done
Oink! Oink!
Egg carton pig
You’ll need two cups of from the egg carton
Glue them together
Hold them together so that they stick nicely on each other
Paint it pink
Use pink craft foams to decorate the pig and you are done
Do you know we can make a cute octopus out of toilet paper roll? Let’s make one today
Toilet Paper Roll Octopus
Paint a toilet paper roll with colour of your choice
Let dry and cut strips mid way through the tube
Use a marker and roll the strips to curl it
Curled up octopus
Paint your pointer white
Stamp your fingers as the eyes
Paint the black eye.
Get a hole punch and punch out tiny circles out of yellow foam
Paste the tiny foam circles onto the octopus
The octopus is done
Craft goes green! I’m not throwing those polystyrene fruit trays away. Instead, we are making a tortoise out of it today
Polystyrene tortoise
Cut a polystyrene fruit tray into ‘cups of bowls’
Paint the polystyrene bowl
Cut squares out of paper and paste on the shell.
Cut out head and legs out of colored foams and paste.
Paste eyes.
Tortoises in meeting
The kids and their tortoises in hand and on their heads
Painting is just so much fun! We are very happy today so let’s make a happy footprint penguin
Footprint Penguin
Paint your foot white, then outline with black
It should be something like this
Stamp your painted foot onto a piece of paper
Paint your thumb black and stamp on both sides of the penguin
Use a hole punch to punch out small circles out of black craft foam.
Dab some glue on it.
Paste as the eyes. Cut a triangle out of felt and paste as the beak.
Happy feet is done
Since making the vitagen bottle elephant the other day, I’m very inspired to make other animals out of it. Today, we shall make a panda out of a vitagen bottle
Vitagen Panda
Draw a circle out of a white piece of paper, cut and paste to cover the mouth of the bottle
- Do the same for the base of the bottle.
- Paste small strips of paper to cover the entire surface and add some black parts using black sugar paper.
- Cut two ears out of black craft foam and paste
- Cut 2 eyes out of black sugar paper and paste.
- Paste 2 small googly eyes on it.
- Cut a small heart shape for the nose and draw the mouth.
- Use black craft foam as the legs.
Nice?
Craft go green Don’t throw your empty bottles away. Today, we are going to make a rocket
Rocket from recycled bottle
- Get an empty bottle
- Wrap it with aluminium foil
- Press and squeeze it tight until you see the shape of the bottle forming
Use colored craft foams to decorate the rocket
- Make a cone out of paper and stick to the tip of the rocket
- Wrap it with aluminium foil and decorate as you wish
Your awesome rocket is done!
Craft goes green Let’s make a robot out of empty boxes today
Robot
- Wrap two boxes of different sizes.
- Use any colored paper as you wish.
Two boxes wrapped in different colored papers
- Paste a couple of stones or buttons as the eyes
- Paste bottle caps as the ears
- Decorate the robot as you wish
- Paste 2 plastic cups as the legs
The robot is done
Ready for action
This is one cute craft you can do with your old newspaper See, our crafts are going green!
Cotton sheep
- Crumple a newspaper into a ball.
- Use masking tape to cover the entire surface
- Paste rolled up cotton onto the newspaper ball
- Poke a toothpick through, glue and let dry.
- Cut black straws and glue over the toothpicks.
- Let dry.
- Cut a face out of black colored foam and paste.
- Paste a couple of googly eyes and your cotton ball sheep is ready! So cute
