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Home » crafts for kids » Holiday Crafts For Kids » Halloween » Monster Mobile from Toilet Rolls – a Preschool Halloween Craft

Monster Mobile from Toilet Rolls – a Preschool Halloween Craft

Last updated on January 11, 2017

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Kids can make a silly, adorable monster mobile for Halloween!  Great Halloween craft for preschool, daycare or for toddlers and preschoolers at home!

Of all the Halloween crafts we’ve made here over the years, this monster mobile is one of my favourites!

Sure, some monsters are scary, but these toilet roll monsters are fun, friendly, and kinda goofy!  The hooligans had a great time painting and decorating them, using basic craft materials that we had around the house.

Monster Mobile Halloween Craft for Kids - Happy Hooligans

Bonus:  This monster craft really appealed to the boys who generally don’t *love* crafting. They sometimes skip craft-time because they’d prefer to keep playing whatever it is they’re playing. Not today though!  At the mention of a monster craft, those boys were at the table quicker than you could bat an eye.

Toilet Roll Monsters Craft

 

To make your toilet roll monster mobile, you’ll need:

toilet rolls pipe cleaners googly eyes

  • Cardboard tubes
  • pipe cleaners
  • googly eyes
  • craft foam
  • paint (purple, black, green and orange are perfect for Halloween)
  • yarn
  • scissors
  • glue

An alternative to toilet paper rolls:

Some schools and preschools aren’t permitted to use toilet rolls for crafting. Great substitutes are paper towel rolls, wrapping paper rolls, aluminum foil/plastic wrap rolls, and poster tubes.

Mobile of monsters made from toilet rolls

Making your monster mobile:

Have your kids begin by painting the toilet roll tubes.

Show them how to hold the tube by inserting a few fingers into it.  That makes it easy for them to paint the whole tube without getting too much paint on their hands.

When the paint is dry, poke a hole in either side of the cardboard roll (use a pen or a skewer), and poke the pipe cleaner right the way through to create a pair of bendy arms.

Have your child glue on a bunch of googly eyes.  The more eyes, the sillier the monster.

Cardboard Roll Monsters

While your child is gluing eyes onto his or her monster, you can cut out the craft foam mouths.  A jagged set of teeth are easy to cut but feel free to get as creative as you like with your monster mouths.

toilet roll monsters for monster mobile

When the glue has dried, your hooligans can play with their monsters as they are, or you can do what we did, and string them into a mobile.

tp roll monsters strung together to make hanging mobile

To make our monster mobile, I looped a length of yarn under each pipe cleaner where it ran through the inside of the toilet roll, and knotted it there.

Tying yarn to toilet roll monster

When I had yarn attached to several monsters, I gathered them together, and arranged them into a mobile by staggering the monsters so they’d hang at different lengths.

monster-mobiles-preschool-halloween-craft

 

Be sure to check out more of our monster crafts before you leave:

Monster Hands – a fun tactile Halloween craft for preschoolers

Monster Swatters  and Monster Spray – fun and funny ways to keep bedtime monsters away

and from a few of my blogging friends…

Monster Shirt – how to make a Frankenstein tee-shirt for your child.  Crafts by Amanda

Monster Book Marks: simple paper monsters to mark the corners of your pages. Red Ted Art

10 MONSTER Birthday Parties party ideas for monster-loving kids!  Spaceships and Laser Beams.

 

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Jackie Currie

Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.

 

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Comments

  1. Maro's kindergarten

    October 17, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    These monsters are so cute!!! We will definitely do some too!

    Reply
  2. Carolyn @ Mama's Little Muse

    October 17, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    Love it and pinned it! Thank you!!! 🙂 And too will share it on my FB page!

    Reply
  3. mommygyan

    October 17, 2012 at 9:56 pm

    these are way too cool! Gotto share with mamas on my blog. Awesome project mama!

    Reply
  4. winny

    October 18, 2012 at 8:15 am

    wonderful staff that I found from u r site…

    Reply
  5. Ann @ My Nearest and Dearest

    January 6, 2013 at 8:16 am

    These are so cute, Jackie! I just bought a bag of googly eye stickers so I think we’ll be making these soon rather than waiting until next Halloween!

    Reply
    • happyhooligans

      January 6, 2013 at 11:31 pm

      Glad you liked them, Ann. They did look pretty darn cute!

      Reply
  6. Courtney

    October 9, 2013 at 8:49 am

    I just love this craft!! I have to share it on my Facebook page today!! I’ve been following your site for awhile now and I get so inspired!! I just love a toilet paper roll craft.

    Reply
    • happyhooligans

      October 9, 2013 at 10:08 am

      Thanks so much for sharing, Courtney! I’m so glad you’re following along and getting inspiration from our activities!

      Reply
  7. Pinkoddy

    October 13, 2013 at 6:04 pm

    They are cute little monsters.

    Reply
    • happyhooligans

      October 13, 2013 at 11:15 pm

      Thank you! The googly eyes make it. Everything is so much cuter when you add a few googly eyes. 🙂

      Reply
  8. Sabrina Banks

    October 19, 2013 at 1:17 pm

    I love these cute little monsters! Featured it on my 40 Halloween Crafts for Kids Round-Up! http://sowsproutplay.com/activities/40-halloween-crafts-for-kids/

    Reply
    • happyhooligans

      October 20, 2013 at 10:54 pm

      Thanks so much for including us in your round up, Sabrina!

      Reply
  9. JayNine

    October 19, 2013 at 8:55 pm

    Absolutely perfect!

    Reply
  10. Almost Unschoolers

    October 25, 2013 at 10:17 am

    Coming in from Crafty Crow – Those are really adorable, and would also be a nice craft-along actvity for “Monsters U”. So cute!

    Reply
    • happyhooligans

      October 25, 2013 at 1:47 pm

      Thank you! I’m glad you liked them. This was one of our favourite Halloween crafts last year. 🙂

      Reply
  11. CraftCollector

    October 18, 2014 at 7:06 pm

    These are great! I want to do these with my class…what did you hang them off? We have high ceilings so I’m trying to think of an alternative? Thanks!

    Reply
  12. morewithlessmom

    October 21, 2014 at 10:36 am

    What is it about monsters that is so much fun? This came out great!

    Reply
  13. Miss Brandi

    October 24, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    We did this at our Family Halloween Fun Day. Everyone had so much fun! I would love to share the pictures with you.

    Reply
    • happyhooligans

      October 24, 2014 at 9:27 pm

      I’d love to see them, Brandi! Feel free to share them on my Happy Hooligans facebook page!

      Reply
  14. Shari

    October 29, 2014 at 2:48 pm

    We are making them now and she is having so much fun!

    Reply
  15. jessica

    August 30, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    are there people who dont use toilet rolls for crafts? why not? im so curious

    Reply

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