Toilet Roll Cardboard Tube Advent Calendar for Kids
Make an Advent calendar from recycled cardboard tubes and wrapping paper. It is an Easy Christmas craft for kids. Enjoy!
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| Easy Preschool Advent Calendar from cardboard tubes. |
Jar lids make great messy spoon holders, paint mixing trays, and chimes. Jars make amazing things! When I was a kid, my Dad had a glass cutting kit, and he'd make all kinds of "fancy" glasses from jars. (You know, just like Waterford Crystal.)
Toilet Tubes are even better. They just cry out for re-purposation. Do you like that word? I just invented it. There, now I copyrighted it too. 12/2012. Maybe, I can trademark it? "You're fired!" Wait, what was I saying? Toilet Tubes and Cardboard Tubes = Awesome craftability.
So... we save our toilet roll tubes. Except we moved, and then we didn't, so I had to start all over. I barely had enough for 25 days, and they were all different diameters and lengths. We had fun, but it wasn't perfect. Remember, it's the fun that counts.
To make our Advent Calendar tree, we took an idea from something similar we saw on Pinterest and it sparked an idea. You know, how that goes. Hmmmmm, very pinteresting. I wonder how I can recreate it to make it my own?
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| Cardboard tube Advent Calendar Tree. |
Digression ~
He digressed so often that it was hard to follow what he was saying.
To turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument.
I do that a lot when I write on Sundays. It's my little form of meditation. So who's in? Are you up for a Voice/American Idol style Crafter contest?
I'll make the winner a handmade, toilet tube crown with a fancy jar torch. (wink, wink)
What? You came here to make an Advent Calendar or a cute holiday decoration? Here goes:
You will need 25 Toilet Roll Tubes minus the toilet paper, but I guess you could use the toilet rolls, now wouldn't that be pinteresting?
Tape or a Hot Glue Gun
Wrapping Paper or Scraps
(Yes, of course, I save the little bits of paper from the previous year that aren't big enough to wrap a package. They are so pretty, I can't bare to throw them away. No, I talk about hoarding, but I'm not really a hoarder not yet anyway. My cat is alive and well, The food in my fridge isn't expired, and you can walk through the rooms of our house just fine. Well, most of them.)
Construction Paper
1. Cut little squares of wrapping paper and roll onto your tubes. Attach with tape.
2. Decide how many will be in each row to taper to one on top.
3. Attach the bottom row together with a little piece of tape inside the end of two tubes.
4. Stack the next row. Repeat step 3. Choose to glue first row to second row or use tape.
5. Repeat.
6. Cut out a Star or Angel from Construction Paper and glue to top of Christmas Tree.
7. Fill each slot with little gifts or fun notes until Christmas Day.
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Turkey with Fall Leaves
New Year's Eve Rocket Popper
Look What You Can Make With Tubes: Creative crafts from
everyday objects
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