Eco-craft: Reusing paper towel tubes
Easy ways to give cardboard tubes a second life before they hit the recycling bin.
With three girls in the house, those pesky toilet paper tubes accumulate faster than you can say pencil holder craft. So we're always looking for cool craft ideas, and for other ways to reuse those tubes (and the ones from paper towels) before they hit the recycling bin. Here's a few of my favorite tips:- Donate old toilet paper or paper towel tubes to your local school or library to use as craft projects.
- Use toilet paper tubes as packing material.
- Give them to your pet hamster or bird (or to a friend that has one) to play with.
- Store holiday lights by rolling them around paper towel tubes to prevent tangling.
- Attach 2 or 3 toilet paper and/or paper towel tubes together to make an art organizer that holds pens, paint brushes, markers, etc.
- Do a Craft: Here are some great craft ideas for reusing toilet paper and paper towel tubes:
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I use them to make "Crackers" like they have in England for Christmas. Only we have them for every holiday. The kids love them. Just wrap with different colored (depending on holiday) tissue paper, then wrap with a piece of consturction paper that is just shy of the length of the tube, put a name, or different holiday symbol on the construction paper and give one to each child. They never know what they will find inside and half the fun us pulling the wrapping off.
I use these tubes as pots to start seedlings for the garden.
1. Scrunch up some newspaper and stuff into 1 end to act as a plug.
2. Fill the tube with potting mix - the newspaper plug stops the potting mix from falling out.
3. Plant out the seed / seedling into the other end.
4. Once the seed germinates and becomes slightly established, I plant the whole cardboard tube / newspaper plug into the soil, leaving a little bit of the tube exposed above the soils surface. This.... More
Love all your craft ideas for used paper towel tubes.
I use my recycled paper towel tubes to make Eco friendly crafts such as Little Humbug Shakers at my storytelling events.
Children love to make noise. We paint the tubes, fill with dried rice or beans, tape each end up - then we shake, sing and dance!
The Little Humbugs love making music in the forest, they use thick Bamboo tubes for their shakers.
