What to do with toilet paper rolls for Christmas – ideas for young and old

As Christmas approaches, it's always the euphoric race of stores looking for decoration to light the fire of the festive spirit. An activity that sometimes turns out to be more troublesome than we had thought. This year however, with the pandemic crisis in full swing, we will finally be able to take a step back from the festive tumult to be able to taste Christmas in its true essence. For this purpose, we suggest you play on the difference by making your own Christmas decorations. And in order to help you even better, please find below several beautiful answers to the question “what to do with toilet paper rolls for Christmas”. For your attention: a brilliant list of eco-friendly and completely original Christmas crafts that both young and old can enjoy.

What to do with toilet paper rolls for Christmas – DIY mini gift boxes

Materials and tools:

Make a DIY Christmas gift box without even having to cut

How to do :

1. Make the polka dot pattern on the outside of your toilet paper roll. To do this, simply soak the eraser at the end of your pencil in the white paint and then press to apply on the roller.
2. Leave to dry and then press the roller so that it is flat.
3. Fold the end of the toilet paper roll inwards. Draw the fold well, passing a fingernail along it if necessary.
4. Do the same on the other end of the roll, folding inwards to form a half moon.
5. Attach a pretty gift tag using a decorative string. Use to enclose mini gifts, such as small jewelry or cosmetics, money, candies, etc.

How to make the polka dot pattern in white paint

Simply fold the ends inwards and your little gift box is ready

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Activity with cut toilet paper roll – elegant snowflakes to make yourself

Materials and tools:

A stylish snowflake made from strips of toilet paper rolls

How to do :

1. For this concrete project, the best would be to use rollers with a length of about 10 cm.
2. Using a ruler, take the necessary measurements for your cutouts. The thinner the cut strips, the sleeker they would look and nevertheless, less thin strips are easier to work with. Measure sections of about 1.5 cm and mark with a pencil.
3. Cut strips following the pencil marks. You will need to cut approximately 8 strips from each roll of toilet paper and get a total of 18 strips to achieve the design in question.
4. The strips should have a nice oval shape. Start with 6 pieces of this, which would form the base of your snowflake. Then make more patterns around it. In order to make the design more sophisticated and original, fold some of the strips in half to obtain a "V" shape or "rabbit ears" and place between the large base shapes. For the concrete project, one would attach one of these small pieces in the gaps between two large pieces.
5. Before you even glue everything together, lay out the various pieces on a flat surface to imagine the desired design.
6. Then, start assembling the large pieces together in pairs by applying a little glue to their base. Then, as shown above, have a small piece attached in the gap between the two large pieces.
7. Pour white glue into a plate and spread evenly on the bottom, then pour glitter into another plate.
8. Soak these large base pieces (three in number) in white glue and then immediately in glitter. Squeeze well to cover with glitter. Do this on both sides.
9. Then, repeat the glue-glitter process with the rest of the small decorative pieces for your snowflakes.
10. Finally, also have the small sequined pieces attached to the base flakes, again in the space between the two “petals” and on the end of the length of each of the large pieces. Here's how to do it step by step...

Cut the strips

Making the Snowflake Base

Add small details to embellish

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DIY with toilet paper rolls for the little ones – cardboard Christmas men

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Materials and tools:

How to do :

Santa Claus

1. Paint the toilet paper roll with red paint and before it dries, sprinkle red glitter all around. To make it easier for you, place your fingers inside the roller.
2. Smooth the roller to dry and take another to cut out a circle for the hat. Make a small slit in the circle, then roll it up to make the hat, removing any excess paper. Then also attach the hat to the roll with glue or tape.
3. Glue the white pompom on the tip of the hat and extend the cotton a little, which will stick all around the peripheral edge of the hat.
4. Then, cut from a roll, a small square for the face of Santa Claus, which fix on the face of the roll to constitute the face.
5. Play with the cotton to make your Santa's beard and at the end, also attach the red pompom nose and the wiggly eyes.

DIY very creative toilet paper - an awesome Santa Claus

Snowman

1. Paint the toilet paper roll with white paint and before it dries, sprinkle with artificial snowflakes. Leave to dry aside.
2. While the paint dries, cut a small triangle out of the extra roll of paper as a nose and paint over with orange paint, or use orange paper to do it.
3. Then glue the nose and the wiggly eyes onto the “snowman” roll of paper.
4. Interlace two red and green pipe cleaners together to make the snowman's scarf.
5. Finally, wrap around the roll and glue, if necessary.

An equally cool snowman to make yourself

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

1. Paint the toilet paper roll with brown paint, applying a few coats of paint, if necessary.
2. To make the antlers, take an extra roll and fold in half, cut a rectangle. Create your unique wood design in this one, without cutting the folding base. Thus welded, have the pair of wood attached on the back, by the center, using a little glue.
3. End up having the red nose and wiggly eyes attached.

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is the easiest to make

elf

1. Paint the toilet paper roll with green paint and sprinkle with green glitter before the paint is even dry.
2. Leave to dry aside and in the meantime, cut a final circle in a roll of toilet paper for extra use. Cut a slit inside, similar to a Santa Claus hat, and roll it up to create said hat, removing any excess paper. Then have the hat glued or attached with adhesive tape to the top of the elf roll.
3. Stretch cotton and glue it all around the peripheral edge of the hat. Attach a white pompom to the tip of the hat.
4. Then using one or two pipe cleaners (intertwined), make a scarf, which tie around the roll and glue if necessary.

Deco roll of toilet paper to make a little elf - the children will love it!

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How to make a paper Christmas tree – another activity with toilet paper roll to do in kindergarten for Christmas

Materials and tools:

Photo of materials needed

How to do :

1. Paint the outside and inside of the toilet paper roll with green paint. If necessary, apply a second coat on the outside to densify the color.
2. Cut the roll of toilet paper from one end to the other, so as to create a sort of spiral.
3. Trace the star shape on yellow paper using the cookie cutter and attach it to the top of the tree.
4. Decorate with sequins and your trees are ready to display.

Paint, cut, decorate – it doesn't get any easier than that!

Make yourself a whole fir forest

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Another toilet paper roll Christmas tree idea for creative little hands

And another idea how to decorate the roll gift box

How to make a snowman out of toilet paper rolls – a creative idea to steal

Even more realistic elves than those presented in our tutorial

A paper Christmas tree made from roll and paper plate

A do-it-yourself advent calendar always made of recycled toilet paper rolls

A pretty birdhouse ornament to decorate your Christmas tree

Santa Claus in roll and cup for the hat

Group of cute Christmas carolers

An extraordinary paper Christmas tree