Crafts from cardboard bushings with your own hands. Toilet paper rolls are not trash, but a creative field

What do people usually do with used things? That's right, they throw them away. But there are such items that at first glance seem completely unremarkable and seemingly completely useless, from which, in fact, interesting trinkets could turn out. One of these things is a cardboard toilet paper roll, from which, if you show your imagination and ingenuity, you can create many amazing crafts that can not only decorate any home, but even come in handy on the farm. Here is a collection of original ideas for the efficient use of cardboard toilet paper roll.

Adorable owls

Use paints and markers to transform cardboard toilet paper tubes into cute owls

"Pocket" for storing pens

Cover your roll with beautiful paper, glue a magnet to it and hang it on the refrigerator

Speakers for phone


These excellent homemade speakers can increase the volume of the sound made by your phone several times.

Cute bracelets


Not sure what to do with your little daughter? Invite her to make these colorful bracelets from a roll of toilet paper.

Gift wrapping


With the help of a cardboard tube and imagination, you can build an excellent gift wrapping

Stationery cups


Do you have a large number of office supplies for which there is no separate space? Arm yourself with cardboard tubes, glue and beautiful paper and make a beautiful place to store them

Holder for wrapping paper


Practical and very convenient!

Storage compartment for cords


Keep your home tidy with great cord storage!

Great idea for storing hair ties


An indispensable idea for those who constantly lose hair ties

Place for seedlings


Rolls are perfect for initial planting.

Scarf holder


If you have a lot of scarves and you don't know where to hang x, then use this idea.

Brilliant idea for decor

If you want to fill the vase with Christmas balls (or other items), but you do not have enough of these same items, then insert a roll of toilet paper into the vase and the problem is solved

Penguins


If it seems to you that there are not enough penguins in your life, then it's time to act!

Car garage

Every man, even very young, dreams of his own garage. Now you know how to help him with this.

Curlers


Do you want curls, but did not have curlers at hand? No question, toilet paper tubes will come to your aid

Birch-shaped towel holders

It's very patriotic

Soft towel ring


Wrap a roll in a cloth and never guess what your towel holder is made of

Bird feeders

Coat your roll with peanut butter and stick on some bird food

Birds will appreciate this delicacy.

Works of art from a roll

Experienced artisans can try to create this kind of beauty.

Crown for the little princess

Decor Photo Frames

Everything ingenious is simple!

Quite popular with children. You can diversify such crafts by adding ordinary toilet paper or paper towel sleeves to them. Having learned from our selection what cool things your child can create from cardboard sleeves with their own hands, you will definitely stop throwing them away.

Kids love tinkering very much, because it's so fun to create completely new characters for their games. Making crafts with your own hands is not only a pleasant activity for a child, but also very useful, because such creativity helps in imagination, accuracy, perseverance and patience.

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Invite your child to use toilet paper rolls in addition, and you will see how such creativity will captivate you and your baby.

DIY city made of cardboard bushings

A cardboard toilet paper sleeve will serve as the basis of the structure here. Make the roofs of the houses out of plain colored paper. Attach the roof with glue, windows and doors can also be glued, or you can draw.

Fabulous buildings made of cardboard sleeves

To make a lock with your own hands, a child cannot do without the help of an adult. Prepare some toilet paper rolls and make towers out of them. Draw the windows with felt-tip pens. Cut out princesses' magazines and glue them to the lock. You can even play a little fairy tale with your child, where a dragon attacks a castle, and brave knights save the inhabitants from a formidable lizard. , read the link.

Similarly, you can make a mill out of a cardboard sleeve from a fairy tale about a puss in boots.

Super heroes

Rockets and planes from cardboard sleeves


Heroes of fairy tales from cardboard sleeves

Toilet paper rolls are the main items in these crafts. Everything else: faces, clothes, hands or paws and clothes - you can easily think of and make from colored paper, felt and draw with felt-tip pens.


DIY insects from cardboard sleeves

Such a variety will definitely diversify the creativity of children, because they are simple to perform and unusual in technique. Bright, will be interesting to the child for a long time. Come up with new characters and let your baby's development turn into an exciting game.

Greetings to little schoolchildren and their parents! More recently, we have considered amazing things that you can do with your own hands from ordinary garbage. Today we will develop this topic further.

Let's turn our attention to crafts made from toilet paper rolls. In the article you will find a master class and a selection of interesting ideas. Happy viewing!

Master Class

We made this craft especially for the school. From four paper sleeves and one scotch tape, we have built a wonderful stationery stand. But first things first.

We start by preparing the materials. So, we needed:

  • four toilet paper rolls;
  • one sleeve from a wide adhesive tape;
  • double sided tape;
  • rope;
  • multi-colored threads;
  • colored paper;
  • thick cardboard;
  • glue gun (other strong glue can also be used).

We also used PVA glue, paints and brushes in our work, but we forgot to photograph them.

To begin with, we will make the bottoms of the bushings from thick cardboard. We apply the sleeves to the cardboard and circle them. The circles turn out. We finish drawing rays to the circles.

And cut out along the rays. We get parts that look like gears or like suns.

Now we bend these rays up.

Lubricate the beams of the parts with glue and insert the bottoms inside the bushings.

Here are the bottoms and are ready.

Now we will deal with the interior decoration of our sleeve cups. First, we decided to paste over them with colored paper. And they did just that with a wide glass.

But with narrow cups, everything turned out to be not so simple. It is inconvenient to paste over them from the inside. Therefore, it was decided to use paints.

It was much easier that way.

This is how the craft looks at this stage.

We proceed to the exterior decoration. We glue the wide sleeve with double-sided tape.

And now we begin to wind the rope around the tape in a circle.

We reel up to the very top. We cut off the excess.

We do the same with the remaining four bushings. Only we wrap them not with a rope, but with woolen threads of different colors.

It remains only to connect our tabletop device into a single whole. To do this, from thick cardboard, we took a box from a toy car, cut out a common bottom. It should repeat the shape of the future craft.

And all that remains is to glue our cups to the bottom. You can use a glue gun or super glue for this. The craft is ready!

We could decorate our desk stationery with buttons, ribbons or something else. But to us it seemed pretty pretty even without decoration.

Craft ideas

Well, now a selection of ideas for crafts from bushings. They were discovered by us on the Internet.

If the bushings are bent as in the photo.

And then take paints, colored paper and add a little imagination, you can get such magnificent owls.

Or such wonderful animals.

It may be difficult for adults to invent something like that, but for children, I think it won't be a big problem.

One of the simplest things to do is binoculars.

And one more option.

You can build a whole fairytale town.

Or even a zoo.

And here we have a real bushing forest)

And here is the bee. That and look will buzz)

Do you recognize these characters?

If you cut the bushings into thin rings and paint them in different colors, you get a real mosaic. Interesting floral patterns can be laid out from it.

Another interesting approach to bushing modeling. Let's cut them like in the photo ...

And we'll get ... cool octopuses!

Finally, a handicraft for our dear boys.

Well, like everyone showed what they wanted. Hopefully, you will find both step-by-step photos and a collection of ideas useful.

We recommend that you pay attention to crafts made from plastic bottles and their caps.

It remains to wish you pleasant creativity and unrestrained creativity!

Until next time!

The creative team of the "ShkolaLa" blog!

Looking for new ideas for creativity? Then pay attention to the toilet paper rolls. Seeing what can be done from them, you will stop throwing this useful item.

Everybody heard the joke that half of the salary goes down the toilet. This can be supplemented with the purchase of toilet paper to the expenses on groceries. In order to somehow compensate for the expenses, enterprising needlewomen use bushings to create all kinds of crafts. So, what crafts from a toilet paper roll can you make yourself? Get inspired and create, because it's not difficult at all and absolutely inexpensive, but original and practical!

Holders for pencils and cosmetics

Digging up a few sleeves, you can make a stylish stationery organizer or an original stand for cosmetic brushes, pencils and mascara. By varying the height of the miniature storage units, you can easily get a personalized accessory that can accommodate everything you need.

To make an organizer from toilet paper rolls with your own hands, you first need to decorate every detail. This can be done in different ways:

  • paint with acrylic paints in the same tone or in different colors;
  • decorate with decoupage;
  • cover with colored paper or vinyl self-adhesive film;
  • glue over with fabric, burlap, lace or leather (natural from old things or artificial);
  • decorate with multi-colored buttons;
  • “Dress” in knitted covers;
  • wrap with jute rope or satin ribbons;
  • decorate with strips of colored tape (looks more impressive if different colors).

The bottom of the bushing organizer can be sealed with cardboard, plywood or wood - choose from what is at hand.

If you don't have time and desire for decor or you need a large organizer, take a box of the right size, fill it with sleeves and use it! In such a storage you can keep chargers, hair bands, hairpins, buttons, scissors, screwdrivers.

You can also give this idea to your husband to clean up your garage, closet, or balcony. Outside, it is advisable to glue the box over, because you are still a needlewoman.

Toys and crafts for home decoration

If you do not know what to do with your children, then start making crafts from toilet paper rolls with your own hands. The result of this simple activity will be funny toys, funny figurines and unique decor, worthy of home decoration, because in some works it is difficult to guess waste from toilet paper.

Kids can be encouraged to decorate the sleeves with felt-tip pens, paints or pencils. Older children will be happy to decorate them with an applique made of colored paper or fabric. As an additional decor, yarn, faux fur, buttons and everything that your imagination suggests is suitable.

Be sure to remember the crafts from the toilet paper roll on the eve of the New Year holidays. From this raw material wonderful Christmas tree decorations, garlands, decorations for the festive table and gift wrapping are made.

Original interior decor

If you don't know what to make out of a toilet paper roll to surprise your friends, try creating a spectacular one with them. To do this, the sleeves must be cut into fragments of the same width, having previously painted in the desired shade from a spray bottle. It is easy to make design compositions of any shape from the received elements.

It is not much more difficult to build a lamp from bushings, only it is important to remember that paper does not like strong heat, so you should use LED bulbs.

Let these photos be the beginning of your creative activity! Surprise your friends, delight yourself and decorate your home with unusual crafts from junk material.

Take a look at the section, perhaps you will like other transformations of unnecessary things into man-made masterpieces.


It would seem that there is nothing more useless than a cardboard sleeve from an exhausted roll of toilet paper. I threw it away and forgot it. But the ubiquitous designers and this thing have found practical use. It turns out that the cardboard cylinder is not just rubbish, but rather a necessary thing. And these 17 extraordinary uses for toilet paper rolls are just another confirmation of this.

1. Gift boxes



Don't rush to throw away the toilet paper rolls. Save them so that, if necessary, you can quickly make small bright packaging for gifts. Such boxes can be painted with paints, decorated with colored paper, ribbons, feathers, glitters or natural materials.

2. Toys



Transform cardboard sleeves into unusual colorful cars and planes. The process of creating such toys does not require any special skills and will be an exciting experience for parents and children.

3. Pencil case



A piece of bright fabric, a zipper, and a little bit of diligence will help transform a useless cardboard sleeve into an original stationery box.

4. Desktop organizer



A creative, handy and practical organizer that can be made from several cardboard sleeves decorated with colored paper is perfect for storing office supplies and will help to put things in order on the table.

5. Bird feeder



A cardboard core can be a suitable base for creating an unusual bird feeder. To do this, grease the cardboard sleeve with peanut butter, sprinkle generously with grain, cereals and crumbs and fasten it with a rope to a tree branch.

6. Containers for seedlings



Use cardboard sleeves as individual containers for planting and germinating seeds. This idea will surely appeal to summer residents and gardeners, who every spring have to look for suitable containers for seedlings.

7. Column



A charming speaker made of a cardboard sleeve wrapped in cloth or paper will greatly enhance the sound of your mobile phone.

8. Packing cutlery



Bright individual packages for cutlery, which are obtained from cardboard sleeves, decorated with colored paper and various accessories, will become cute details of the festive table.

9. Garage



A multi-level garage organizer made of cardboard toilet paper sleeves will help to put things in order in children's cars and will become one of the attributes for games.

10. Packaging for cords



Cardboard sleeves can be used as individual packaging for cords and various cables. Such a trick will allow you to put things in order in the wires, preventing them from tangling or bending.

11. Organizer



A cardboard box with cells made from grommets is another brilliant way to store wires.

12. Labyrinth



A fascinating interactive wall with a labyrinth made of pieces of cardboard sleeves will become an original decoration of a nursery and a favorite place for educational games.

13. Wreath



Cardboard sleeves are a great material for a variety of crafts. For example, you can cut the grommets into thin circles and use them to create a wonderful wreath on your door.

14. Mini bowling



Paint the cardboard sleeves in different colors and use them as a bowling pin.

15. Original compositions


Bright garland.


Delightful bright garland with fish made from cardboard sleeves, painted with bright colors and complemented by corrugated paper.

Video bonus:

Toilet paper cartons in skilled hands turn into shelves, stationery stands and stylish lampshades. But designers are not happy with just inventing little things.



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