Starting today, we'll have a weekly post with round-up of links featuring different types of crafts, activities and other projects aimed towards growing Green Kids Smart Kids.
This week we are sharing different crafts from toilet paper roll cardboard inserts where kids can transform them into different water and sea animals! Perfect for summer crafts, plus it's cheap and from materials we all have at hand!
Let's start with some FROGS!
Printer for a template, toilet paper roll, scissors and a glue should be at hand for this
printable frog craft from DLTK - kids. And another version of the same craft can be found
here.
You can also try this frog craft found on Youtube.com:
Next, few HIPPO crafts from toilet paper rolls...
DLTK-kids.com has 2 versions of printable hippo crafts using toilet paper rolls, template, scissors and glue:
version 1 and
version 2 (coloring pencils optional).
And, there are always the cutest creatures, like these OCTOPUSES:
Simple and lovely dotted octopus creating using scissors, some paint and googly eyes can be found at
Laughing kids learn.
Even easier version of an octopus can be found at
Untrained Housewife blog along with some other toilet paper roll crafts.
And a bit more demanding crafting creating an awesome octopus from youtube.com:
Here are several FISH crafts....
Simple fish crafted from toilet paper roll and paper plate found at
Meaningful Mama.
And awesome but a bit harder to craft Japanese flying carp craft from toilet paper rolls from
Squirrely minds.
At the end, Alex toys has created this
lovely craft kit with ocean animals you can purchase at Amazon.com:
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