Toilet Paper Roll Animal Crafts for Preschool
We love Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for Kids! Here is a collection of our favourite Toilet Paper Roll Animal Crafts for Preschool though of course older age groups will enjoy these too. These animal crafts make great DIY toys and are a wonderful prop for story telling and pretend play.
Paper Roll Animal Crafts are so cute and easy!
Why craft with Toilet Paper Rolls?
Toilet Paper Roll Crafts are inexpensive, plentiful and versatile! Crafting with empty Toilet Paper Rolls is especially wonderful for young children, as young kids like to create LOTS (so a plentiful resource is great), they often make “mistakes” – but a toilet roll is not intimidating (in the same way a large sheet of white paper can be), so kids can be “free-er” when creating with Toilet Paper Rolls. There is no right or wrong just some “trash” to get crafty with.
What to make with Empty Toilet Paper Rolls?
As mentioned we have an extensive list of Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for Kids with over 100 ideas for you to choose from.. however… a 100 ideas can sometimes be a little intimidating.. so today, I have picked out all our favourite Toilet Paper Roll Animal Crafts for you! The majority of them are DIY Paper Toilet Roll Toys (my kids used to play with these for hours on end), but we have also included some fabulous Paper Roll Marionettes, as well as some mini Toilet Paper Roll pinatas (bats) and Toilet Paper Roll Gift Boxes (the chicks are particularly wonderful!).
Supplies needed for these cute paper roll animals
The basic supplies list is simple – obviously depending on the craft you will need some other bits and bobs too.. but the basics are:
- Paper rolls, be it paper towel rolls, toilet rolls or other cardboard tubes of choise.. cut to size and have fun
- Paints in desired animal colors
- Paint brushes
- A pair of scissors
- Glue or glue stick or hot glue if you want to speed up the process!
- Googly eyes and other embellishments (e.g. colored construction paper) depening on the toilet roll creature you are making!
The best bit about the adorable cardboard tube critters, is that you won’t need any templates! The projects are cute and easy to follow!
Toilet Paper Roll Animal Crafts: The Zoo Animals
We love Zoo animals.. from Toilet Paper Roll Lions to Koalas.. take a look at this super duper cute Zoo Animal collection! Which Zoo animals would you like me to add in future?
- Arty recycled fun with this Love Struck Lion Craft – Toilet Paper Roll Lion – so cute! Love the bright colourful main for Valentine’s Day, but of course you can make this lion craft in traditional colors too!
- Toilet paper Roll Koala (seriously cute)
- Toilet Paper Roll Zoo Play set (new safari animals including Zoo story books) – I think the spotty leopard is my favourite! My son loved put the spots on with a marker pen!
- Complete Toilet Paper Roll Animal Zoo play set (Who is hiding) – a great set of zoo theme toilet roll animals. I think we are just missing a zebra!
- Camel Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Toilet Paper Roll Yak (not quite sure is a Yak is a Zoo Animal.. but wasn’t sure what other sub heading to add this cutie too!! Of course this little guy could also be a highland cow)
- Adorable little Toilet Paper Roll Vulture
- And finally our E for Elephant Toilet Paper Roll Craft! LOVE the big elephant’s ears
- Toilet Paper Roll Orangutan – I think this guy is ready to give you a big hug!
Toilet Paper Roll Animal Puppets
Yep.. you can have LOTS of fun with Toilet Paper Rolls.. turn this humblest of all craft materials into some fantastic Toilet Paper Roll Marionettes and Toilet Paper Roll Animal puppets. Here are our favourite!
- Toilet Paper Victor van Krumm Dog
- Toilet Paper Giraffe marionettes
- Toilet Paper Leaf Birds Marionettes
Toilet Paper Roll Animal Crafts: The Farm Animals
Time for some toilet paper roll farm animals… I know I am bias, but I think I love those Toilet Paper Roll Chick Treat Boxes the best (so quick, so easy and oh so cute!).
- Toilet Paper Roll Sheep
- Toilet Paper Roll Chick (gift box) – these are a clever little 3d craft
- Toilet Paper Roll Bunny Box
- Easy Toilet Paper Roll Piggies
- Fine Motor Skills Pipe Cleaner Turkey Craft
- Crafts by Amanda, has made a fun set of Toilet Paper Roll Farm Animals!
Toilet Paper Roll Animal Crafts: General Animals
More every day animal crafts (aka, I didn’t know where else to fit these lovely Toilet Paper Roll Animals in) from Pinata Bats, to Doodle Owls, which will you make first? Maybe we should call these general animal crafts or “other animal” crafts!!
- Toilet Paper Bat Pinata – the point bat ears is a simple fold to help shape the top of your cardboard tube
- Wonderful Toilet Paper Roll Dragonflies (more wonderful Bug Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for you to browse!)
- Toilet Paper Roll Frogs so fun! (Here is another great TP Roll Frog GAME via Fun Crafts Kids)
- Toilet Paper Roll Minibeasts (more wonderful Bug Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for you to browse!)
- Toilet Paper Simple Doodle Owl
- Toilet Paper Roll Cat boxes
- Toilet Paper Roll Snake
- N is for Narwhal com – a super fun and easy Toilet Paper Roll Narwhal Craft. The kids will love this one!
- Creative Me Inspired has a further set of fantastic Toilet Paper Roll Animals
- Make Film Play shows us how to make this easy peasy Toilet Paper Roll Octopus
- TP Roll Mouse – so cute
Movie, Stories and Fairy Tale Toilet Paper Roll Animals
- Toilet Paper Pigeon from the Storks Movie
- Twiggy Toilet Paper Roll Reindeer – perfect for Christmas, but of course a reindeer craft is lovely all year round.
- Red Riding Hood – includes a Toilet Paper Roll Wolf
I hope you agree that this is collection of cardboard tube crafts really is EASY and that you don’t really need any printables to give them ago. And that you found some fun ideas to get crafty with your little ones.
We have many more Toilet Roll Crafts (well over 80 in fact!!) why not check them out here:
