What can be made from empty bushings. Amazing things you can make from cardboard toilet paper roll

Since 1879, the production of toilet paper with cardboard rolls inside began. It was then that all people were divided into those who throw away such rolls after use and those who, on the contrary, collect not only from themselves, but also from all their relatives, acquaintances and neighbors... If you were surprised, who might need such stupidity as a roll from toilet paper, then this article with a huge selection of ideas for their use is addressed specifically to you!

I suggest you look at rolls a little more broadly and take into account not only those stated in the name (toilet paper), but also paper towels, gift wrapping paper, foil, cling film, etc.

Most of the ideas and photos used in this article are not mine but found on the Internet.

To make the search easier, I have conditionally grouped all the ideas for reusing toilet paper rolls into:

• games (children's and not only);
• children's crafts, toys (universal);
• crafts for boys;
• crafts for girls;
• gift wrapping;
• decoration (wall, window decor, decorative wreaths, panels...);
• themed for various holidays (mostly New Year, Christmas);
• useful for home and garden;
• ideas that will be useful for further creativity;
• ideas related to lighting;
• ideas from the category of art that are not so easy to repeat, but you really want to admire them.

Games

The tubes are simply covered with colored paper (foil, self-adhesive paper...) or painted. I made the tubes striped using streamer paper (which I used to make this handmade card, for example) and securing it with a stapler. Then the tubes are arranged into a pyramid, a fence, or whatever you like. Players launch a ball across the floor (although you can throw it), trying to knock down all the rolls.

In addition to bowling, you can make chess, checkers and other board games from toilet paper cartons (although they may not fit on the table at this size).

With children, you can play with the alphabet (or syllables, depending on which method of teaching reading you prefer), glued to base stands made of cardboard rolls.

Children will also undoubtedly appreciate the drum:

Homemade slide for rolling glass marbles:

Dolls with changing facial expressions:

A fire made from paper fire napkins and “logs” - rolls painted brown:

On such a fire you can even “fry” sweets from cotton balls.

Kids toys

You can simply glue the pictures, and with the help of a roll they will stand.

We cut the roll from the bottom, twist the resulting tentacles, paint it, and now we have an octopus in front of us:

You can draw directly on the rolls and partially cut out the images (above):

The top of the roll can be folded like a “pillow” gift box and the rest can be drawn or glued on using the resulting shape.

In addition to owls, you can play with the ears of cats, bats (for Halloween) or Batman in a similar way (and instead of his face, glue a cut-out photo of a child, as an option).

You can make animals more complex. The roll will be the body of the animal, and the head and limbs need to be cut out of cardboard and glued.

There is even a free pattern for the animals you see in the photo.

Of course, other materials can be used to make such animals, for example, here cotton swabs (legs), a napkin (fills the body and face), cotton balls (wool) and shaggy wire (horns) were used to make the sheep.

Cut the roll in a spiral, paint it, stick on the eyes, you get a wonderful snake:

Tree - you need to insert a crown of the desired shape into the slots on the roll (trunk). For a birch tree, paint the trunk with white paint and make black stripes.

You can make dolls with hair from yarn.

The idea is universal, suitable not only for girls. This can be done for Santa Claus and representatives of different professions...

Binoculars, spyglass

For a telescope, just take a roll of towels, foil or film (or glue several together - from toilet paper), cover it with colored paper, foil, self-adhesive paper, and paint it.

The easiest way to make binoculars is this: fasten two rolls of toilet paper together with a stapler on both sides, chipping them about a centimeter from the edge, and insert the stapler inside the tubes. And on each side twice, changing direction (so that the bent brackets look from left to right and from right to left). Use double-sided tape to stick colored paper on the outside. Use an awl to pierce holes on the sides, if possible, insert blocks (ailets), thread a string so that the binoculars can be worn around the neck.

Kaleidoscope:

If you add a cone cap to the tube, you can get a mushroom, a rocket...

Make slits so that the rolls can be folded like a wooden hut or a well:

Cut into rings, then flatten and make little animals:

• mice

• turkey (or peacock):

• dog:

Of course, you can make a variety of educational toys using cardboard tubes. As an example - Montessori material Sliding soft balls:

For boys

All boys, without exception, love airplanes, locomotives, cars...

Together with them, you can make a traffic light and a series of road signs from toilet paper tubes. The traffic light is very popular with my son!

Even for boys, the rolls can be used to build covered roads, tunnels, support pillars for multi-level parking for small cars (you just need to add a shoebox and you already have a two-story parking lot in front of you).

Tank with movable turret:

Racing cars (by the way, you can make wheels from plastic bottle caps):

For girls

Color, cut lengthwise, decorate - you will get original bright children's bracelets:

By the way, in order for the bracelet to stay on your hand in the future, you can think about it in advance and make ties from ribbons, braid, rope, a button, a magnetic clasp...

Bracelets can simply be wrapped in strips of fabric or painted with gouache.

You can also cut it into rings and make a “necklace”, cut it into long strips in a spiral, grease it with glue and screw it onto a knitting needle (it’s better to start with a wider part of the strip and end with a thinner one), you’ll get beads.

You can also make furniture for a dollhouse:

Gift wrapping

Packing small gifts with a pillow:

When making such gift boxes (especially in large quantities), it is better to first make a fold template from thick paper, which you then attach to a roll folded in half flat, trace the template with a non-writing pen (the blunt side of scissors, a special tool...) on all possible four sides of the roll, and then bend it into a “pad”.

Wrapping a gift with a simple “candy”, wrapping it in soft paper or cloth and tying ribbons on both sides:

Wrap in cloth or soft paper, tie only on one side at the top:

Candies or small souvenirs can be packed in a rocket or in a round birch bark box with a lid (unfortunately, the link is lost):

Decorations (walls, doors, windows...)

Firstly, you can simply cut the rolls into rings, flatten them into leaves and hearts, you can dip them in glue and then in glitter or artificial snow...

Or you can dip the edge of a flattened, painted cardboard toilet paper roll into glue and glue colored paper, for example, like this poinsettia flower:

Paper tree as wall decoration:

Wreath flowers:

Panel with bees made from Kinder plastic eggs:

Personally, I was captivated by this openwork frame for a mirror (you just need to add some sequins to the rolls of toilet paper, paper towels, etc.):

Toilet paper rolls can be cut into rings, painted and hung like a mobile:

And this idea is almost like quilling: rolls cut into strips (in a spiral) are then twisted into a wreath of “roses”:

You can cut toilet paper rolls not only in the quilling manner, but with cloves:

You can also use the cloves to make something practical and useful, for example, a pincushion:

Themed for different holidays

You can make Christmas decorations from toilet paper rolls, for example, a flashlight:

A similar flashlight, but cut diagonally:

By cutting the roll crosswise you can create the following Christmas tree decorations:

Using a toilet paper roll, you can make figurines of simple Santa Claus, a snowman, the Snow Maiden and other New Year's characters.

Father Frost:

Frame with multi-layered Christmas trees:

In addition, Christmas trees can be made in the manner of the tree described in the toys (simply inserted into the slot), with a flattened cone as greenery, or rings cut crosswise and painted green can be arranged into a pyramid, with a toy or bell hung in each ring (you can decorate a postcard in the same way, only you need to cut it into very narrow rings, and it’s better to stick or draw toys or bells in the form of pictures).

A “countdown” calendar that will help children better navigate when the long-awaited holidays will come (“envelopes” are simply attached with clothespins):

Toilet paper rolls can become part of original carnival costumes, for example, this one a la Louis:

Crowns for princesses and princes party:

A selection of “toilet” ideas for Valentine’s celebration:

You can also make egg cups for Easter from toilet paper rolls cut into rings. You can decorate them however you like!

Useful for home and garden

Protection against drafts on a window or under a door:

Pencils: you just need to glue a round bottom and decorate or several rolls (of different heights) on one long, preferably more or less massive base.

You can also make a minimalistic and very quick to make pencil holder that hangs on the wall (you only need to add two paper clips to the cardboard toilet paper tube):

Now imagine that you pull out a drawer and instead of the usual unraveling tangle of wires, plugs, cables and various extension cords, you see organized and labeled toilet paper rolls, a homemade, very beautiful device for storing wires:

A whole homemade wire storage system in a box:

Napkin rings:

Storing elastic bands, ribbons, strings, bracelets, chains and beads:

Bobbins for winding and storing ribbons can even be decorated, for example, as in this video. I secure the ends of the ribbons with a small piece of tape, and then put the bobbins in a box. This way the ribbons are perfectly stored and do not wrinkle.

You can even make furniture from rolls and rolls:

It’s also very convenient to use toilet paper rolls for seedlings:

A simple and concise bird feeder:

An improved version of the bird feeder: here the birds can sit on the branches sticking out of the roll:

For creative people

Toilet paper rolls can become the basis of a mini-album or postcard with a tag inside:

Stamps: simply print with the edge of the roll, a circle or folded with a heart (and fasten with a piece of tape so that the fold does not diverge), a leaf (“eye”), an asterisk and print:

Cut the edge, bend it over and you’ll get a sun, star or flower stamp (a great idea for creativity with children!):

Cardboard rolls can also be used as a holder for a handmade stamp (moreover, stamps made from a sponge can be stuck not just on a cardboard glued across the roll, but directly on it (on its side) and rolled like a roller or rolling pin (the roll should be as tight as possible so that did not wrinkle, better from foil or cling film).

Play of light and shadow

You can very carefully insert a warming candle in a sleeve into toilet paper rolls (it is just the right size). You can make holes of various shapes in the roll, for example, to make a real lock. The main thing is to carefully monitor this decoration - a candlestick, do not place it next to other flammable objects and do not cover the top with a lid so that the roll does not overheat and ignite.

You can even make a lampshade from partially cut toilet paper rolls:

Houses that can be illuminated from the inside with a garland:

From the category of art

How about a panel in the form of men, made with a mosaic of painted rolls (by Beru Betto):

Faces made from crumpled and painted toilet paper rolls (Junior Fritz Jacquet):

You can simply glue or make cuts and insert pictures of the same color as the roll. You will get 3D scenes like Anastassia Elias:

And if you have a lot of patience, you can cut out a design right from the roll itself and bend it like Yuken Teruya:

Well, if you look at the matter a little more broadly, rolls - remnants of adhesive tape - can also be used (they are denser and wider, this is both their plus and their minus).
You can use them to make an “adult” bracelet, a box that looks even more like a real drum, and you never know what else comes to your mind...

Surely you liked some of the listed ideas and after reading the article you will move from the camp of throwing away toilet paper rolls to the camp of collecting them from all your relatives and friends.

Even toilet paper manufacturers think about where to put the sleeve from the roll after using it. Someone suggests simply washing off this “waste material”... But we know that this should not be done under any circumstances, because the bushings make excellent crafts for children. Why shouldn’t manufacturers of hygiene products adopt this idea and draw a diagram of a single craft made from a sleeve on a piece of paper? And there would immediately be less garbage in the world. Moreover, crafts can be made in a variety of ways and it is very easy and simple, even small children can do it.

In this article we have collected ideas for such crafts, and You will see step-by-step master classes of the toys you like if you follow the links from the photographs.

Ideas from toilet paper rolls

The sleeve is a cylinder of thick recycled paper, approximately 10 cm high and 5 cm in diameter. It is also called a roll, cylinder or tube. Because of its shape and stability, it is well suited for making three-dimensional 3D crafts using colored paper, which is used to cover this sleeve and from which additional elements are cut out, or you can simply paint it. Paper towel tubes also work well.

This waste material makes wonderful lanterns. This is the simplest craft.

Amazing animals will also come out on top. Cover it with brown, cut out the tail, paws and ears, and the squirrel is ready.

Let's complicate the face and make a lion.

By analogy, we make any other face, ears, paws and tail and any other animal comes out, be it a mouse, an elephant, a monkey, or even a hare.

And the insects from the sleeve look adorable too. Bee:

Let's change the wings and the design of the body, and a bright butterfly will flutter in front of you. Or ladybug:

And if your imagination boils and splashes, you can come up with wonderful monsters.

If you glue the bottom of them all, you will get beautiful pencil holders.

Let's turn the sleeve horizontally, glue the head and paws, and cute dogs and other animals are ready.

Or we attach wheels and get a sports car:

There is also a very interesting technique when one end of the sleeve is folded inward, connecting the edges. Thus, they look like ears and look great on different animals and owls. Making such crafts is a little more difficult, but the student should be able to do it himself.

Even a snowman, children on the street, Father Frost and the Snow Maiden can be made from bushings.

Well, and Santa with a deer and a gnome assistant too:

And we’ll put Christmas candles on the table, also made from waste material:

And if you cut the roll in a spiral, glue on its eyes and sting, a curled up snake will look at you with a curious gaze.

If you cut cardboard rolls into rings, you can also make interesting crafts.

In short, in your hands an ordinary toilet paper roll or paper towel or foil tube can find new life in an interesting way.

Do you like crafts, but don’t have bushings on hand? You can also do it yourself. Cut out a rectangle with sides 10 cm and 13.5 cm from thin cardboard. Roll it into a tube so that the 10 cm side becomes the height of the tube. Glue with a 5 mm overlap. You can immediately make such blanks of the desired color from colored cardboard for crafts.

We hope that the ideas for such crafts made from bushings will be useful to parents for teaching their children at home, to kindergarten teachers, and to primary school teachers.

Cardboard tubes left over from toilet paper are ready-made blanks for making any kind of crafts: animals and birds, fairy-tale characters, “actors” of a tabletop mini-theater; rockets, mushrooms, cacti; Christmas tree toys and decorative elements. And toilet paper is an excellent raw material, a “building material” for papier-mâché. What is characteristic and important is that crafting from cardboard tubes is not only a pleasant activity, but also quite simple. Even younger preschool children can cope with this task willingly and with pleasure.

In this section you can find many proven ways to work unconventionally with waste material. Which you can and should take note of!

Craft from toilet paper and cardboard tubes, it's fun and easy.

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All civilized people know what toilet paper is for. But what do you do with a cardboard core whose only purpose is to serve as a base for the roll while it lasts? website knows at least a dozen ways to use this item in the household and we will not hide these secrets from you.

Pot for flowers and seedlings

We cut and fold the edges so that a bottom is formed. We fill in the earth and plant our plant. The sleeve is made of paper, and this is the same cellulose - a biodegradable material, so you can bury the pots in the ground and forget about them.

Bird feeders

Feeding the birds in winter is a sacred task. Coat the bushing with oil or anything sticky and edible. Sprinkle with grains and seeds, cereals. We hang it out the window and have fun.

Alternative to curlers

You don’t wear curlers to the store or for a walk in the park, do you? And if everything happens at home, then why stand on ceremony - you can also use bushings, fortunately, the size is suitable.

Toy Warehouse

We remember that the bushing is very durable, right? Therefore, even without any fasteners, they can be used to build a honeycomb structure inside a certain frame-base for storing a variety of small items.

Cable box

Some people tie the cables in a knot so they don’t get tangled, but we’ll just make a separate case for each from an old grommet. Cheap, cheerful, convenient. And there was a use for the shoe box.

Cable sorting

Cardboard is also easy to write and draw on, so we can very easily sort all the wires and label the storage for each one. There’s no need for a box here, you can just put it in a corner.

Packing lock

If you have a roll of something that tends to unwind, you can simply thread the roll into the sleeve. And that’s it, it will hold and look neat. Profit.

Incinerator

You can put smoldering coals inside the sleeve, in the absence of other devices for transporting fire. And if you need to light several fires in succession, for kebabs or barbecues, this can become a lifesaver.