4 Holiday Toilet Paper Roll Crafts

4 Cardboard Tube Crafts for the Holidays

Whether you use a paper towel roll, wrapping paper roll, or toilet tube, these cute cardboard tube crafts for the holidays are easy to make. We made 4 fun holiday toilet paper roll crafts with bits and bobbles from cardboard rolls. Scroll down to see our Thanksgiving Turkey, Christmas Reindeer, Snowman, and Little Puppy. Enjoy!

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Cute Cardboard Tube Crafts.

1. Toilet Paper Roll Turkey

We used cardbboard paper towel rolls and toilet paper tubes to make these little creatures. They are skinnier than most, because we cut a 1" strip out of each roll and then hot glued the cardboard back together. Each holiday creature is cut at a different height, so they can be displayed in an attractive centerpiece for the holidays.

Toilet Paper Roll Crafts Thanksgiving Turkey.

Cardboard Tube Valentine Treat Creature

If you want to make Cardboard Tube Crafts for Thanksgiving, purchase some felt leaves. We found a Thanksgiving garland kit on clearance and used the pieces to make turkey feathers. An autumn pack of pipecleaners. pom poms, and felt bits were used for his beak and head.

To attach the head, it is best to use hot glue. Place a bead of glue around the top of the cardboard tube and then press and hold the pom pom down until the glue sets.

If you want to paint your tube, do that before you begin decorating it. We like the natural look of of the cardboard roll.

2. Cardboard Tube Puppy

Cut a 2" section of cardboard roll to make a little puppy.

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3. Cardboard Paper towel Roll Snowman Craft

Use a vegetable skewer to make hands
for your cardboard toilet roll snowman.

Fun Snowman Craft

Twist two pipecleaners together to make a scarf for your snowman.
We glued two cottonballs together to make  his head.

4. Reindeer Toilet Roll Craft

Wrap pipecleaners around your finger or a pencil
to make spiral antlers for the cardboard reindeer.

More Cardboard Roll Crafts for Thanksgiving

Mayhem designed her own Easy Cardboard Toilet Tube Turkeys.

Cut 1/4" strips approximately 3" down the toilet paper roll to make the turkey feathers. Then, bend 1 strip down folding the end up to attach the turkey's head. Cut two orange strips and glue inside the tube to form legs. Now, you have a shelf sitter turkey for Thanksgiving.

Share your ideas with us in the comments.


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Handprint Turkey Craft Thanksgiving 8

8 Easy Handprint Turkeys

Looking for an easy, quick Thanksgiving activity to do with the little ones? Try a Handprint Turkey Craft for Thanksgiving. We're sharing Eight of our favorites from Kid Bloggers and Pinterest. Enjoy!

8 Easy Handprint Turkey Crafts for Thanksgiving.

• We like how this handprint turkey from Meet the Dubiens used the entire hand for the feathers. It allows for lots of fun, messy handprints!

Easy Handprint Turkey for Preschoolers from Meet the Dubiens.

• How cool is this unique handprint turkey? They are thinking outside of the box at floortjetekent blog? But, maybe their turkeys look different than ours? Turkeys don't have combs... do they?

Unique handprint turkey or is it a rooster?

• Easy Paper Footprint Turkey Craft

• Over at 123Peppy, they spruced up their colorful handprint turkey by pasting it to a plate and adding a decorative border.

Colorful handprint turkey from 123 Peppy.

• It isn't a handprint, but this footprint, turkey feather Native American Headdress is a cute activity for Thanksgiving.

• Dress your handprint turkey for the occassion, by giving him a pilgrim hat for Thanksgiving, like this one from Lonestar Knits.

Paper Handprint Turkey with Pilgrim Hat.

• These felt handprint roosters are stuffed, and they stand up. Just add a gobbler, colorful feathers, and drop the comb to make a felt handprint turkey craft. 

Make felt handprint turkeys for the Thanksgiving table.

• Mayhem designed this paper and pipecleaner turkey craft all by herself. She twisted the yellow pipecleaner into feet and then looped the orange one through the middle in the shape of a J. Then, she traced her handprint, cut it out, and attached it to the pipecleaner with hot glue. She twisted a loop in the top and hot glued the head to the orange pipecleaner.

Paper and pipecleaner handprint turkey.

To make him even more special, have your child write what they are thankful for on each feather!


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Styrofoam Cup Turkey Craft

Easy Turkey Craft for Thanksgiving

This styrofoam cup turkey craft is an easy turkey craft for Thanksgiving. He is cute enough to become your Thanksgiving table centerpiece, and simple enough for little hands to manipulate. Include this cute, turkey craft as a sensory fine motor project for preschool and kindergarten class. Enjoy!

Cute Styrofoam Cup Turkey Craft.

To make Styrofoam Turkey Craft

Styrofoam Cup

Orange or Brown Paint

Pipecleaners in Fall Colors

Mini Pom Poms

Assorted Construction Paper

Glue Stick

Hot Glue Gun

Easy Turkey Craft for Thanksgiving with styrofoam cup.

Prep: Cut cardboard toilet tube in half.

Flatten the top, and fold a flap approximately 1".

Fold a small piece of paper in half, draw a circle, and cut out for the eyes. Draw pupils at different levels to give the turkey a loopy look.

Cut a gobbler from red paper and attach just below his mini pom pom beak.

Paint the styrofoam cup with tempera paint. Allow to dry.

Parent or Teacher: Make a bead of hot glue all around the bottom of the styrofoam cup (Top of the bird), quickly connect the cardboard tube head.

Bend the pipecleaners in half. Twists halves together at the bottom.

Insert pipecleaners by poking the ends into the back of the cup as shown below.

Back of Turkey: Poke pipecleaners just below the turkey's head.

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Cranberry Pomegranate Recipe for Chicken

Make Cranberry Pomegranate Chicken 

This Cranberry Pomegranate Chicken Recipe will fulfill your craving for holiday flavors without all of the work. The Cranberry Pomegranate Sauce is easy to make, and rosemary is the perfect companion spice. Enjoy!

Give your Chicken a HOLIDAY makeover:
Make this Cranberry Pomegranate Recipe for Chicken.

How to Make Cranberry Pomegranate Chicken

6 servings

Ingredients:

1/2 c. flour

1/2 t. salt

1/4 t. pepper

6 boneless skinless chicken breasts

2T butter or oil

1 c. cranberries, fresh or frozen

1/4 c. pomegranate arils (opt.)

1 c. cranberry pomegranate juice, no sugar added

1/2 T. red wine vinegar

1/2 t. dried rosemary

Directions:

1.  In a shallow bowl*, combine flour, salt, and pepper. Coat the chicken with flour mixture.

2.  In a large skillet*, cook the chicken in butter or oil until browned on both sides. Remove chicken and set aside.

3.  In the same skillet, combine the cranberries, pomegranate arils (opt.), juice, vinegar and rosemary. Cover, and simmer for 5 min.

4.  Place chicken on top of the cranberry mixture. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes.

5.  To serve, spoon cranberry mixture over the top of the chicken.

-LISA

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*We also use affiliate links, if you make a purchase we get a tiny commission. Kids Creative Chaos participates in the Amazon LLC Associates Program*, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a mean for blogs to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon properties, including, but not limited to, amazon.com, endless.com, myhabit.com, smallparts.com, or amazonwireless.com. We also offer Tapinfluence, Google Adsense, SoFab, and Izea ads here. Thanks so much for helping us keep the lights on! :)

Car Covers for Backseat: Bench Seat Cover with Split

Split Rearseat Cover for Car

Messy Kids? Ready for a big Chaotic Confession? We've got one super messy child dubbed, Mayhem. We needed car covers for the backseat for the past year. So, when Versa Via asked if we'd like to do a review, we jumped at the chance. The Versa Via split rearseat cover for car worked like magic, alas for our car, it was too late. Maybe, it isn't too late for your car? Keep scrolling for our car seat cover giveaway. Enjoy!

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Easy to install rear seat cover for car.

So, the Car Covers for Backseat were a necessity for us. We've had the car for almost 2 years now, so it is practically a new car, right? Not so much. Here goes... You might want to avert your eyes.

We desperately needed a Split Rearseat Cover for our Car.

What is that stuff? Well, there's some purple putty, blue candy, maple syrup, ketchup, chocolate milk, Florida sand, and maybe even some duck or chicken poo remnants. Yes, that's a big confession.

One day, after some Nerds (the candy) entered into the backseat, the seatbelt clicker broke. We tried to vacuum them out, but it was too late. RIP seatbelt.

Messy backseats. This fabric is unforgiving.

Another confession, we did attempt to clean the seat before installing the VersaVia Car Cover. We spent $5 sweeping it out and sprayed lots of vinegar and peroxide on it, but it was to no avail.

A bit of good news, we found lots of change and a few Nintendo DS games! Bad news, we even clogged the industrial vac at the carwash.

Mommy refused to sit in the backseat, so did Jake. Daddy would sit on a towel or chair pad. Sigh.

Then, our Split Rearseat Cover for Car arrived. It sat in the front entry for a week. We knew prepping the car was going to take some time. We also worried that the rear seat cover would be difficult to install. Wrong!

This installs in under 5 minutes. Super easy. It adjusts to the size of your seat, and it stays in position even when Mayhem is climbing around back there. If only, we had one BEFORE the mess.

Since we've installed it, The Littlest Pet Shop tiny bits don't fall between the fold or get stuck in the seat belt clicker...




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Mariah Carey Christmas Book Puppy Crafts and Activities

All I Want for Christmas is You, Children's Book Companion Craft

It was bound to happen. The most popular, modern day Christmas Song by Mariah Carey is now a beautifully illustrated book for children. If you know the Mariah Carey Christmas song, All I want for Christmas is you, then you almost know the story. Just insert a puppy! We've created some companion book puppy crafts for you. Scroll down for cute puppy craft activities and free printables. Enjoy!

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All I Want for Christmas Book with Companion Crafts.

Colleen Madden brings the puppy story to life with vibrant, fun illustrations.The pictures tell the story. The "You" in the story is a brand new puppy for Christmas. Forget sugar plums, this little girl wants a puppy!

The best part is... you can sing the story together! It makes for a great bedtime story that will become a cherished family tradition. To make your tradition more memorable, we found some companion book  puppy craft activities you can do during the holidays.

Over at Sweets and Brains, you'll find these adorable PUPPY COOKIES. Hop over and get the recipe and then bake some up with your kids.

In the story, the little girl is making a Puppy. If you look carefully, you'll see that it's a Christmas stocking. So, we made a similar Christmas puppy stocking out of construction paper. Made from simple shapes, it was super easy paper craft to make!

Puppy Paper Craft for Christmas.

                                    Upside down, he becomes a stocking! The ears become the feet.

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Veterans Day Craft Ideas for Kids

When is Veterans Day?

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Veterans Day is November 11. Looking for activities and crafts for Veterans Day? These Veterans Day Patriotic craft ideas for kids are easy to make, especially when you make traceables for preschool and elementary students. Veterans, (Yes) Veterans', (If you must) Veteran's (No.)

 

Have you heard of the Hug a Hero Project? Every town needs to start one! The non-profit organization raises money to help local heroes in need. Do you know a Veteran? How can you help?

A simple way to help, is to remember your local heroes on Veterans Day. Visit a Veterans Hospital or a local retirement community and share a hug! We made these cards to share with our local Veterans. You can also make a bunch of cards and hand them out at a Veterans Day Parade or celebration.

Make a Veterans Day Hug a Hero Card Craft Activity Middle School Elementary Preschool Homeschool.

To Make a Votive Candle to Light for a fallen Soldier, visit the local Dollar Store. Get some votive cups in patriotic colors, battery powered votives, and glitter glue. Use the glue to paint a flag onto the votive cup. We just drew some silver lines and a blue square to represent the United State's Flag. Easy Peasy! 

You can make several votives to give as gifts to families of fallen soldiers. Whatever you do to celebrate, be sure to remember our heroes on Veterans Day.

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Seasonal Books for Kindergarten 2015

Winter Holiday Books for Preschoolers and Kindergartners

The weather is getting colder. Children are dreaming of snow and the holiday season, and teachers and caregivers are looking for fun, new books to share with their students. These 2015 seasonal books are great for preschoolers and Kindergarten too. Enjoy!

We were given three adorable children's books for review, and they are perfect seasonal books for your little ones. One focuses on the joys of snow, one talks about Yetis, and the other focuses on Hanukkah... and Santa.

The Thing About Yetis is a perfect book for preschoolers.

The Thing About Yetis is Vin Vogel's debut book as author/illustrator. It is an adorable book about a fuzzy Yeti. What's a Yeti to do? Like children, Yetis get bored in the winter months.

If you have cabin fever, you'll need something to do to. After you read the story, grab some paper, markers, and cottonballs and make your own Yeti as a companion book project. Just grab some tracing paper and trace the picture on the book cover or let the kids freehand it.

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What's that you say? You don't have a book to trace? Well, you can get one at the library or buy one on Amazon: The Thing About Yetis*, or (if you are a resident of the U.S.) leave a comment to win your very own copy!

Dear Santa, Love Rachel Rosenstein is a cute book to teach about holiday traditions.

Dear Santa, Love Rachel Rosenstein is written by the actress, Amanda Peet and her friend, Andrea Troyer, with illustrations by Christine Davenier. This is a Santa story with a twist. Rachel Rosenstein's family doesn't celebrate Christmas. 

Published by Double Day, this picture book is full of vibrant illustrations that small children will love. It is cute, funny, and it describes some Jewish traditions. However, be prepared to explain why Santa doesn't visit all children- that can be a tricky subject. 

If you want to have a multi-cultural discussion with companion craft activities this book is a great launching point. Little Rachel runs into some friends who also don't celebrate Christmas. They celebrate Diwali and Chinese New Year. 

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Max and Marla take many adventures. In this latest Peguin Young Readers picture book, by Alexandra Boiger, Max and his pet owl, Marla, are hopeful Olympians. The limited palette illustrations are primarily beautiful shades of blue that don't even need words. Children of all ages will enjoy the story, but the target audience is for preschoolers ages 3-5.

Life is always about the journey, not the destination!

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Chicken Nugget Ghosts Recipe

How to Make Chicken Nugget Ghosts

We've discovered lots of fun things to do with chicken nuggets for Halloween and beyond. When Tyson® and Sam's Club asked us to share a Chicken Nugget Recipe, we we're happy to oblige. These Chicken Nugget Ghosts are easy to make, and they taste delicous. Enjoy!

Aren't these little chicken nugget ghosts bootiful?

When I was a kid, the classic Peanuts cartoons meant family time. My mom would make cinnamon rolls, and we'd gather around the television. I wanted to have a similar tradition with my kids- something simple and delicious that the whole family loves. So, we decide on Tyson® Nuggets and Crispy Strips as we anxiously await the new Peanuts Movie!
 

What better way to watch your favorite Halloween special than with some cute, trick or treating chicken nuggets.

Tyson® Chicken is made with 100% all natural ingredients and fully cooked with 12-15 grams of protein. They make a great snack, finger food for kids, or even a go to meal for the whole family

First, you will need to stock up on supplies from Sam's Club. The kids love shopping there! They like all of the taste testing stations and being able to get their favorite foods in bulk.

Bake the nuggets in the oven according to package directions.Baked Nuggets are better than microwaved ones, though, they all taste good.

How to Make Chicken Nugget Ghosts Recipe

Now, dress your chicken nuggets up for Halloween! These cute, chicken nugget ghosts are easy to make too. Just cover your nugget with a slice of White American Cheese, using a straw- poke two holes for eyes and pop them in the Microwave oven for 15 seconds or less. When done, they look like the Peanuts in the classic holiday cartoon. The kids don't like Provolone Cheese, but it works too.

How to Make Chicken Nugget Ghosts Recipe.

So, who is your favorite Peanuts character? Share with us in the comment section. You might say I am a bird lady- okay, a crazy bird lady. I currently have 6 chickens, 1 rooster, 1 drake, 1 duck, and a Cockatiel. Yep, Woodstock has always been my favorite! 

You can also make a Chicken Nugget Pumpkin Patch Bento for lunch.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Tyson®. The opinions and text are all mine.


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Fun Things to do With Chicken Nuggets: Make a Pasta Skeleton

What fun things do you do with chicken nuggets for Halloween? The kids love pasta and chicken nuggets, so we decided to combine the two into a pasta skeleton with a chicken nugget skull. Enjoy!

We played around with food to decide what food would make the best face and still taste good with the chicken nuggets. We settled on pickle faces. Nothing goes better with nuggets than ketchup and pickles- at least that's what the kids say.

Things to do with Chicken Nuggets. Make some fun pickle faces.

How to Make Pasta Skeletons with Chicken Nuggets

Fun Things to do With Chicken Nuggets: Make a Pasta Skeleton.

• Bake the nuggets in the oven according to package directions. 

• Boil 1 C. Penne and 1/2 C. Rotini according to package directions. Add your favorite Pasta sauce. Serve with chicken nuggets with pickle smiles.

• Create pasta skeletons or other fun creatures. Playing with food makes it more fun to eat!

Chicken Nuggets Pasta Skeleton Recipe.

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