Paper Plate Pig

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Paper Plate Crafts, Pig, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 20-03-2011 | 19,377 views

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Feeling a little Oink Oink today so we will be making a paper plate pig! 😀

Paper plate pig

You’ll need a paper plate, two cups from the egg carton and a ring cut out of toilet paper roll

Paste a piece of paper on one side of the toilet paper roll ring and cut out the excess

Glue the egg carton and toilet paper roll ring onto the paper plate. Let dry.

Paint the entire surface pink

Leave it to dry

Paste eyes and nose. I used hole punch and punch out black construction paper for the nose.

Your pig is done 😀 Oink Oink!

St. Patrick’s Four Leaf Clover

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Crepe Paper, Festive Crafts, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 17-03-2011 | 10,688 views

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It’s St. Patrick’s today and let’s celebrate by making a four leaf clover out of toilet paper roll 🙂

Four Leaf Clover

You’ll need to cut the toilet paper rolls into rings. You’ll need four rings

Press and shape them until you get 4 heart rings

Paint the heart rings green

It can get pretty messy on the fingers 🙂

Cut green crepe paper and paste onto a paper plate

Once the four heart rings dry, paste them onto the paper plate too.
Happy St. Patrick’s to all craftiers out there 😀

Toilet Paper Roll Flower

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft from Recycled Materials, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 08-03-2011 | 20,427 views

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Let’s make a flower out of toilet paper roll today 🙂

Toilet Paper Roll Flower

Draw lines and cut as shown above

Paint it

Punch a hole and poke a wooden chopstick through and glue.

Your flower is done 🙂

Toilet Paper Roll Jet

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft Foam, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Toilet Paper Roll, Vehicle | Posted on 27-02-2011 | 28,186 views

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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 🙂

Toilet Paper Roll Cupid

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft Foam, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Festive Crafts, Pipe Cleaner, Toilet Paper Roll, Valentine's Day | Posted on 14-02-2011 | 17,978 views

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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 😀

Toilet Roll Goat

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft Foam, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Felt, Goat, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 28-01-2011 | 38,291 views

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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 😛

Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Chinese New Year, Craft from Recycled Materials, Festive Crafts, Rabbit, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 18-01-2011 | 36,064 views

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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 :P)

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 Orange

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Chinese New Year, Craft from Recycled Materials, Festive Crafts, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 12-01-2011 | 58,106 views

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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 😀

Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:

1) Red packet Ball Lantern

2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern

3) Ang Bao Gold Fish

4) Lucky Star Lantern

5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker

6) Chinese Paper Cut – SPRING

7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet

8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament

9) CNY Angpow Lantern

10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament

11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament

12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom

13) Toilet Paper Roll Orange

14) Chinese New Year Fan

15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune

16) Ang Pow Koi Fish

17) Personalised Ang Pow Packet

18) Angpow Carousel Lantern

19) 12pcs Angpow Lantern

20) Angpow Flower Lantern

Craft Stick Stationery Holder

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft Foam, Craft from Recycled Materials, Craft Stick, Crafts by Materials, Insect crafts, Ladybug, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 10-01-2011 | 24,137 views

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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.

Ang Pow Toilet Paper Roll Cracker

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Chinese New Year, Craft from Recycled Materials, Festive Crafts, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 28-12-2010 | 49,992 views

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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 😀

Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:

1) Red packet Ball Lantern

2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern

3) Ang Bao Gold Fish

4) Lucky Star Lantern

5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker

6) Chinese Paper Cut – SPRING

7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet

8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament

9) CNY Angpow Lantern

10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament

11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament

12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom

13) Toilet Paper Roll Orange

14) Chinese New Year Fan

15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune

16) Ang Pow Koi Fish

17) Personalised Ang Pow Packet

18) Angpow Carousel Lantern

19) Red Packet Fish Lantern

20) 12pcs Angpow Lantern

Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft from Recycled Materials, Rabbit, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 27-12-2010 | 13,708 views

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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 😀

Toilet Paper Roll Snowman

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Christmas Ideas, Craft from Recycled Materials, Festive Crafts, Snowman, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 22-12-2010 | 33,825 views

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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 🙂

Toilet Roll Plane

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft Foam, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Egg Carton, Toilet Paper Roll, Vehicle | Posted on 20-12-2010 | 36,591 views

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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 😀

Toilet Paper Roll Reindeer

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Christmas Ideas, Cotton Craft, Craft from Recycled Materials, Festive Crafts, Pipe Cleaner, Reindeer, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 13-12-2010 | 44,357 views

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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 😀

Toilet Paper Roll Tree

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft Foam, Crafts by Materials, Crafty Crafted Friends, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 29-10-2010 | 20,661 views

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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 😀

Toilet Paper Roll Octopus

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft Foam, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Fingerprint Art, Octopus, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 31-08-2010 | 75,701 views

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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 Penguin

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Fingerprint Art, Penguin, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 23-08-2010 | 74,085 views

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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 😀

Toilet Paper Roll Binoculars

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft from Recycled Materials, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 05-08-2010 | 69,380 views

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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 😛

Toilet Paper Roll Bee

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Bee, Crafts by Materials, Fingerprint Art, Insect crafts, Pipe Cleaner, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 11-06-2010 | 45,958 views

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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