Halloween is coming, and those empty toilet paper tubes gathering in your recycling bin are ready for their spooky second life. Here’s how to turn them into decorations that are scary-good and seriously easy to make.
Halloween mummy
What You’ll Need
- Empty toilet paper roll tube
- Brown card or a brown toilet paper roll tube
- Toilet paper
- Scissors
- Googly eyes
- Double-sided tape or glue
- Pencil
How to Make It
- Cut a piece of brown card to fit all the way around your empty toilet paper tube, then stick it in place. (Or skip the card and paint the tube brown.)
- Stick on some googly eyes.
- Grab some toilet paper and cut four strips for the bandages.
- Stick the toilet paper strips in place.
- And BOO! Your spooktacular mummy is finished.
Frankenstein’s Monster
We've created a monster (no laboratories required). Reuse your empty loo rolls this Halloween with this frightfully easy Frankenstein craft. Grab your little monsters at home to help you!
What You'll Need
- Empty toilet roll tube
- Green card
- Scissors
- Googly eyes
- Double-sided tape or glue
- Pencil
- Black felt-tip pen
How to Make It
- Cut a piece of green card to wrap around your empty loo roll tube and stick it in place. Or skip the card and paint it green instead.
- Stick on some googly eyes.
- Grab a pencil and sketch out your monster's hair, mouth and signature scar.
- Go over your design with a black felt-tip pen to bring those monstrous features to life.
- It's alive! Your monsterpiece is complete.
Pumpkin
Round up your little monsters and transform an empty loo roll tube into a boo-tiful pumpkin. No carving required.
What You'll Need
- Empty toilet roll tube
- Orange card
- Scissors
- Double-sided tape or glue
- Pencil
- Black felt-tip pen
How to Make It
- Cut a piece of orange card to fit all the way around your empty loo roll tube, then stick it in place (or skip the card and get painting).
- Draw your pumpkin's face with a pencil.
- Go over the spooky features with a black felt tip pen.
Vampire
Grab the kids and transform an empty loo roll tube into this fang-tastic vampire. We promise this one's dead easy to make.
What You'll Need
- Empty toilet roll tube
- Pale pink card
- Red card
- White card
- Googly eyes
- Scissors
- Double-sided tape or glue
- Pencil
- Black felt-tip pen
How to Make It
- Cut a piece of pink card to fit all the way around your empty loo roll tube, then stick it in place (or skip the card and get painting).
- Stick on some googly eyes.
- Draw on a mouth with your black felt tip pen.
- Cut 2 triangular fangs out of the white card and stick them on using double-sided tape or glue.
- Give your vampire a bow tie using the red card and stick it on.
- Using a pencil, give your vampire a hairstyle and fill it in with a black felt tip pen.
- Grab the red card and measure how wide and long you want the vampire's collar to be.
- Cut a triangle out of the red card to make the cape and stick it to the back of the vampire's body.
- Voila! Your spooktacular creation is complete.
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