To usher the New Year of the Rabbit, let’s make a cute rabbit today

Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit

Cut three rings out of a toilet paper roll

Glue two rings together

Glue the 2 rings to the third ring

Cut two ears out of the envelope of your Chinese New Year card greetings (or you can simply use pink paper
)

Paste the ears and cut two eyes out of white envelope. I’m trying to recycle all I can here

Paste the eyes

Tie a gold string and hang. You may want to paint the toilet roll white before you start if you have the time

Toilet Paper Roll Oranges

Cut a toilet paper roll into rings

Cut a circle out of a paper plate and paste onto the ring

Paint it orange

We did three oranges

Cut a leaf out of green felt and paste on the oranges

Frame them up and they’ll be a nice wall decor this Chinese New Year
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.
Let’s start working on Chinese New Year decorations
Today, we are going to use toilet paper roll and some red packets to make a fire cracker

Red packet toilet paper roll fire cracker

Cut two circles out of a red packet

Paste on both ends of the toilet paper roll

Take a cute red packet and paste around the toilet roll.
Cut a strip of aluminium foil, twist it and paste on one end of the roll and you are done
Let’s do the bunny hop.. hop hop hop!

Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit

Paint a toilet paper roll white

Paint the eyes and dry. Read my earlier entry – tips for painting (and drying) round object here.

Cut the ears out of white paper and glue. The rabbit is done
We are making a toilet paper roll snowman today

Toilet Paper Roll Snowman

Cut a strip of white paper

Wrap and paste the toilet paper roll. You may opt to paint the whole roll white instead of wrapping it with paper.

Cut another toilet paper roll at 1/3 of the length and paint black as the snowman’s hat

Cut a circle and paste the top of the hat. Cut a bigger circle for the bottom of the hat.

Paste the hat on the white toilet roll.
Add details such as eyes and all.

Your toilet paper roll snowman is done
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
Let’s make a reindeer out of toilet paper roll today

Toilet Paper Roll Reindeer

Cut four legs out of a toilet paper roll

Paint the reindeer brown

Paint the feet black

Paint a cotton ball red. Just dip the brush in red paint and dab the brush all over on the cotton.

Paint your thumb white

Stamp onto the reindeer as eyes. Glue the red cotton ball as nose.
Twist several short pipe cleaners and glue as the antlers.

Your toilet paper roll reindeer is done
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
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

Toilet paper roll is so much fun. I don’t dispose them. I keep them and transformed them into something cute. Today, we are going to transform a TP Roll into a penguin

Toilet Paper Roll Penguin

Paint the toilet paper roll black

Cut a semi-oval from a white piece of paper and paste on the TP Roll

Cut a pair of flippers from black sugar paper and paste

Paint your fingertip white and stamp it on the TP Roll as the eyes

Paste a pair of feet and draw the black of the eye. The penguin is done
Feel like spying today?
Let’s make a binoculars out of those toilet paper rolls

Toilet Paper Roll Binoculars

Paint two toilet paper rolls black

Once dried glue them together

Use pegs to secure the rolls together while drying

Wrap the binoculars with a strip of black sugar paper.
Wrap a strip of gold or silver paper on each roll too.
You may also cover the roll with colored cellophane as the lens.

Your binoculars is done. Now… let’s spy

Buzz.. Buzz.. Let’s make a bee out of a toilet paper roll today

Toilet Paper Roll Bee

Paint the toilet paper roll yellow

Let it dry

Cut three strips out of black sugar paper

Paste the strips onto the toilet paper roll

Paint your pointer white

Stamp your fingerprint on the toilet roll as the eyes

Cut a pair of wings out of a white paper and bend a white pipe cleaner.
Paste onto the toilet paper roll and use marker to draw the necessary