While some people stockpile toilet paper, I stockpile empty toilet paper tubes. You just never know when you might want them for crafting. And here’s a creative project in which you’ll definitely need a lot of tubes — Noah’s Ark animals.
Making a basic body shape for the animals is easy by bending the top of the tubes to make ears and cutting out a section at the bottom for the feet. Then you can customize the tubes to create different animals, adding distinct features and colors. I’ve made one of each of the animals shown here, but obviously you’ll want to make them in pairs.
What you’ll need:
Toilet paper tubes
Scissors
Colored paper
Glue stick or glue
1. To make a head with pointy ears, press down on opposite sides of the top of the toilet paper tube. It will stay in this position, so you won’t need glue.
2. To make the feet, cut two notches at the bottom of the toilet paper tube and fold up the flap. Depending on the animal, you can make the notches shorter or longer to vary the length of the legs.
3. After your basic body shape is made, have fun decorating the tube with features that make the animal easily identifiable, e.g., big ears and a trunk for an elephant or a mane for a lion.
