It’s hard to believe that Christmas is a little over 3 weeks away! It’s a balmy, sunny 5 degrees today, and it feels more like October than December!
Now, you know I looooves me some toilet tube crafts, so when I came upon these little sweeties over at Craft Snob, I was inspired to make some little reindeer of our own.
These toilet roll reindeer were super-easy to make. We used toilet tubes cut in half. You could paint your tubes brown, but we covered ours with wall paper samples. If you haven’t yet, you really have to visit your local paint/paper shop and ask for some outdated wallpaper sample books. You can use the wall paper samples for so many crafts.
Once the tubes were covered, I poked holes for the Hooligans to slide a pipe cleaner through, for the antlers.
You could use a red pom-pom or a button for the nose, but I had some artificial berries that were wired, so I poked another hole, and the kids poked the wire through. I just kind of crumpled the wire up, on the inside of the tube, to hold the “nose” in place.
Some glue for the eyes, and a ribbon for hanging…
and tada….
How simple was that? And how darn cute are they?!! What do you think? Will we see some toilet roll reindeer on your Christmas tree this year too?
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Jackie these are really cute – I am exhausted already with all your crafting – you are a wonder! I am starting my crafts tomorrow so glitter will be everywhere!
My own head is starting to spin, Kierna. lol There are so many amazing ideas floating around out there in our big, wonderful network. I feel like a kid in a candy store, looking at all of them, & loving so many of them, but knowing there isn’t nearly enough time to make all that I want to make! Plus….there’s still the crafting I need to do for my OWN Christmas, in addition to what we’re doing in the daycare!
These are too cute for words! i bet my daughter would LOVE doing these!! These would also be perfect to share at my new Thrifty Thursday Linky Party, I’d love for you to come by and check it out! http://www.playingwithwords365.com/2011/11/thrifty-thursday-linky-party-1/
Thanks, Katie! I’ll definitely check out your linky party!
these are way cool! And my Mum adores reindeer so we might just have to give these a go! thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome, Kate! Have fun!! Hope your mom thinks they’re sweet too!
These are so adorable! I made them with my colleague and our 12 3-year olds this morning
They loved them and in a last minute free for all decision we let them roll their reindeer in glitter…boy was that a hit! Thanks for the great idea!
So happy that you were inspired to make some! You are so brave with the glitter!!! I think I might be braver with it if I didn’t run the daycare in my home. The thought of glitter being tracked all through my house kinda makes me steer clear of it. lol
These are so cute Jackie. The perfect little project for my kids. Thanks a bunch! Kristi
Thanks, Kristi! So glad you liked them!
absolutely love these – we shall be making these when i get my hands on some brown pipecleaners
This is so cute! Great job!
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