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Easy Cardboard Tube Robot for Kids

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. 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 “puppet theatre”, 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 doesn’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

 

Step 5 Make the arms: these are “Witches Ladders” 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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  1. artsy_momma says

    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 🙂

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  6. Red Ted Art says

    @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!

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  12. Maxine of the Magic Belles says

    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 😉

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  19. Jackie says

    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!

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  22. Ruth says

    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!

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