If you’re stocked up on toilet paper, don’t toss the empty rolls in the trash! You can transform these cardboard tubes into educational games, awesome art projects, and tools for at-home learning!
Teaching Tubes
This cute craft doubles as a learning activity! Younger kids can use it to practice the alphabet while older kids can use it to practice multiplication tables.
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Feelings Friend
Create characters that change expressions to show different emotions. You can use the ones your kids create to check-in with their own emotions each day!
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Cardboard Owls
Transform your tubes into a family of owls! Use scrap paper and other materials to decorate.
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Toilet Paper Kazoo
Make a musical instrument! Create a kazoo using a roll, a sheet of paper and a rubber band.
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Cardboard Coiled Snakes
Use your spare cardboard rolls to make colorful, coiled snakes!
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Cardboard Tube Rocket Ship
Create a rocket ship, and fly it to the moon!
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Cardboard Construction Set
This simple DIY construction set slots together to make all kinds of funky cardboard shapes and sculptures.
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Cardboard Tube Marble Run
Create a marble run on a wall using tubes and tape. If you don’t have a marble, try it with other small round objects.
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Tube Letters
These tube letters are a fun way to display a message – no tape or string required!
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Toilet Paper Speaker & Phone Holder
Amplify the speakers on your phone with the toilet paper tube hack! You can also use it as a tripod to hold your phone while you video chat with friends or family while at-home.
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Great ideas!