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Easy Cardboard Tube Robot for Kids

January 25, 2012

Welcome back to Kids Crafts and this week’s cardboard tube robot!! I am a huge huge HUGE fan of cardboard tube crafts.. mainly because we have them in abundance in our house (*cough* I blame the Englishman). This little Toilet Paper Roll Robot is a perfect little Crafts for Boys idea!

cardboard tube robot

We actually made this robot last year and it forms part of my Time On Your Hands ebook. But I decided to share him with you today.ย This little guy has once again inspired hours of fun in our house. Which is great for those long long holidays. He also forms part of our home made โ€œpuppet theatreโ€, where we have a range of wonderful characters.

cardboard tube robot

Materials: The Cardboard Tube Roll, metallic or blue paint, silver corrugated card or tin foil, scissors, paper, googly eyes, pen, sequins, glue, elastic band to keep everything in place whilst drying

I used metallic acrylic paint, but you can replace it with tin foil or wrapping paper or ordinary paint, which you then varnish if you want to!

Step 1 Paint two strips at the top and bottom of the roll around 2cm wide in the metallic colour (or colour the whole roll, it doesnโ€™t matter really!) – as per the photo above.

Step 2 Paint some plain paper in the same colour, so you can later use it for the arms. You will need to paint both sides
Step 3 Once dry, cut out a piece of corrugated card and glue it onto the roll. You could also use some contrasting plain card, tin foil or felt

Step 4 Stick on googly eyes, a mouth (white paper & pen drawing) and sequins for buttons

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Step 5 Make the arms: these are โ€œWitches Laddersโ€ and consist of two strips of paper folded over each other. Glue them at right angles to begin with and then take turn folding them

Step 6 Glue on arms
I used an elastic band to keep corrugated card and arms in place whilst they were drying on.

Done! You have one little cardboard tube robot. What do you think?!

If you are interested in seeing more Toilet Paper Roll Crafts take a look at these:

 

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Comments

  1. artsy_momma says

    January 25, 2012 at 8:36 am

    I love it! I have been looking for a fun robot craft for awhile- one that I know my son would enjoy- & this is perfect for him! It\’s one of the cutest robots I have ever seen ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      January 25, 2012 at 9:34 am

      @artsy_momma and they are not too big, so you can make a whole army of them!!!

      Reply
  2. Liz Burton says

    January 25, 2012 at 9:09 am

    He\’s brilliant – love the concertina arms :0)

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      January 25, 2012 at 9:34 am

      Thank you Liz! I rather like those too!

      Reply
  3. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    January 25, 2012 at 11:33 am

    Your robot is adorable! We\’ll have to make some =)

    Reply
  4. Actually Mummy... says

    January 25, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Oh he is cute! Once again mine is a bit random, but they did craft!

    Reply
  5. Miya says

    January 25, 2012 at 11:44 am

    Witches ladders? You learn something everyday! Cute project.

    Reply
  6. Red Ted Art says

    January 25, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    @maryanne – thank you and we need to make MORE too!
    @actually mummy – I like random
    @miya – uhm, I THINK that that is what they are called! Maybe no!

    Reply
  7. Amanda says

    January 25, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    That is one of the CUTEST robots I have ever seen!

    Reply
  8. Jenny says

    January 25, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    Love your robot! He totally rocks. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  9. Red Ted Art says

    January 25, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    @Amanda now that is a compliment coming from you – you are SO good at TP crafts!!!

    @Jenny THANK YOU ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  10. Emma @Mummymummymum says

    January 25, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    i love those Maggy, so cute!!!

    Reply
  11. Red Ted Art says

    January 25, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    Thank you Emma!

    Reply
  12. Maxine of the Magic Belles says

    January 25, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    I think we\’ll be making a purple version in our house this weekend – purple is the colour of the moment! Having great fun catching up with all your posts after a busy few weeks! Thanks for the awesomeness ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Reply
  13. Brittany says

    January 25, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    Your robot is too cute! My kids will love making this! Thank you for hosting! Have a great week! ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  14. Carolyn Wilhelm says

    January 26, 2012 at 3:24 am

    Wonderful. You are so creative and the photos with clear explanation make me sure I can try this, too. Thank you. Carolyn

    Reply
  15. Red Ted Art says

    January 26, 2012 at 10:18 am

    Thank you all!! Hope you have fun making some!!

    Reply
  16. Veronica says

    January 26, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    what a well done robot craft. It looks so good it\’s hard to believe it was so easy to make.

    -Veronica

    Reply
  17. Roopa@putti prapancha says

    January 27, 2012 at 6:07 pm

    Love the robot! Looks so adorable:) And thanks for hosting the linky.

    Reply
  18. Aimee says

    January 27, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    I love the robot ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Reply
  19. Jackie says

    January 27, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    I\’m glad you brought the robot back. I remember reading a post about making a robot here but last year, I\’m not sure my son would have been ready. He\’ll love that idea this year… what a difference a year makes!

    Reply
  20. Red Ted Art says

    January 27, 2012 at 8:19 pm

    Oh yes, I agree!! A year makes a HUGE difference! I see it in both of mine all the time!

    Reply
  21. Ruth says

    January 28, 2012 at 9:42 pm

    The robot is so totally cute! I\’ll be linking up while I\’m here as well! Thank you!

    Reply
  22. Ruth says

    January 28, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    have linked up BUT failed to manage to paste your button code. I just cant get my poc to recognise the box, any chance you could email it to me? Thanks!

    Reply
  23. Crystal @ Growing A Jeweled Rose says

    January 28, 2012 at 10:20 pm

    This robot is too cute!!! We will ahve to make some robots some time soon! Thanks for the link-up also!

    Reply
  24. creativejewishmom/sara says

    February 3, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    Love your robot! I think my boys would love it too…..thanks so much for sharing on craft schooling sunday, great to be back!

    Reply

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