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Cardboard Tube Panda Craft

April 8, 2019 By Terri Thompson

We’ve made cardboard tube elephants. We’ve made tigers. And, now we’re making a fun cardboard tube panda craft.

These pandas are so cute that you’re going to want to make a whole family of them.

So, let’s grab our craft supplies and get started.

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Supplies needed for your panda bear craft

Empty cardboard tube/toilet paper roll
White craft paint
Black craft paint
Black marker
Scissors
Black construction paper (just a scrap will work)
Glue
Googly eyes

How to make your Cardboard Tube Panda Craft

For the first step, grab your white paint and paint your entire cardboard tube white.

While you wait for the paint to dry, cut two small circles from your black construction paper for your ears. Your circles should be about the same size as a quarter. (Or about 1-inch in diameter.)

After your white paint is dry, grab your black paint to add the details.

You’ll want to paint two ovals tilted to the side for your eyes and a small circle between them for the nose.

Next, paint a black band under the face. The band circles your tube with it lower in the front and higher in the back.

Let the black paint dry for a few minutes.

Create a pretend play zoo and add this simple cardboard tube panda bear craft. It's a simple and fun craft for kids that makes use of recycled materials.

After all the paint it dry, add your final details.

Glue your ears to the inside of the top of your tube. Center an ear above each eye.

Glue your googly eyes inside your black eye ovals. They need to be near the top of the oval.

Create a pretend play zoo and add this simple cardboard tube panda craft. It's a simple and fun craft for kids that makes use of recycled materials.

Finally, use the black marker to make your mouth underneath the nose circle.

After the glue dries, it’s time to play! This panda bear craft makes a great DIY toy!

Yield: 1 panda

Cardboard Tube Panda Craft

Create a pretend play zoo and add this simple cardboard tube panda craft. It's a simple and fun craft for kids that makes use of recycled materials.

Use a recycled paper tube and a few simple supplies to make one of these cute cardboard tube pandas.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Difficulty Easy
Estimated Cost Under $5 (depending on the supplies you already have on hand)

Materials

  • Empty toilet paper roll tube
  • White craft paint
  • Black craft paint
  • Black marker
  • Black construction paper
  • Googly eyes

Tools

  • Scissors
  • Glue

Instructions

  1. Use your white paint to paint your entire cardboard tube.
  2. While the paint is drying, cut 2 small circles (about the size of a quarter) from your construction paper for your ears.
  3. Once the white paint is dry, use your black paint to add details. Add a black collar, small black nose, and two tilted ovals for the eyes. Let the black paint dry.
  4. Glue your ears to the inside of the top of your tube so that half of the circles sticks out from the top.
  5. Glue your googly eyes to the top of your eye ovals.
  6. Finally, use your black marker to draw a small mouth.

Notes

If you don't have an empty toilet paper roll tube, you can cut a paper towel roll to size.

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Project Type: cardboard tube animal / Category: Crafts
Create a pretend play zoo and add this simple cardboard tube panda craft. It's a simple and fun craft for kids that makes use of recycled materials.

You may also like one of these animal crafts:

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Create a pretend play zoo and add this simple cardboard tube panda craft. It's a simple and fun craft for kids that makes use of recycled materials.

My recommended supplies

If you want to make this cute cardboard tube panda, you’ll need a few simple craft supplies. First, make sure you save a couple of empty toilet paper rolls! The rest of the supplies are some that you should keep on hand to make many fun crafts for kids.

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Egg Carton Easter Basket Craft

March 20, 2019 By Terri Thompson

I recently found myself staring at a pile of egg cartons and wondering how we could use them. Certainly there’s an Easter craft project we could try?

What could we do? After a few moments of creative thinking, I had an a-ha moment. They would be perfect for making a cute little Egg Carton Easter Basket or two.

Recycle your empty egg cartons into this simple and pretty Egg Carton Easter Basket craft for kids. It's so much fun to make!

This project takes very few supplies, it’s easy to prep, and it’s a lot of fun to make. In fact, you probably already have everything you need to get started on this easy egg carton Easter craft.

So, go grab your supplies and let’s get started crafting.

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Supplies needed for this Easter basket craft

Egg carton
Craft paint
Sharp pencil
2 pipe cleaners (fuzzy craft sticks) for each basket

How to make an Egg Carton Easter Basket

We divided an egg carton into sections of four cups apiece.

The egg cartons we have tear easily. If you don’t have the same type of carton, you may have to get out the scissors.

We each took a section of the egg carton and started painting.

I got out as many pretty pastel colors of paint as I had, but feel free to use any color.

Try stripes, polka dots, or just solid colors. Any pattern will look pretty on the baskets.

While waiting for the paint to dry, we twisted two different colors of pipe cleaner together.

Once they were twisted, we curved them into a u-shape to make a handle.

This next step needs to be done by an adult. If you’re working with a large group, you can do this step before painting.

Before we put in the handle, I used the sharp pencil to poke a hole in each side of the egg carton.

We then put the ends of the pipe cleaners into each hole, curving up the ends and twisting it around itself.

This simple Egg Carton Easter Basket craft for kids makes a fun and pretty little container to hold your plastic eggs or dyed Easter Eggs.

That’s it. You’ve finished your egg carton Easter basket!

This Easter basket craft was so simple and fun. We filled our baskets with plastic eggs and added them to our Easter decorations. They’re so pretty.

If you find yourself with a few extra egg cartons, turn them into Easter baskets!

This simple Egg Carton Easter Basket craft for kids makes a fun and pretty little container to hold your plastic eggs or dyed Easter Eggs.

You may also like one of these Easter activities for kids:

Watercolor Easter Eggs Garland

Easter Egg Dye Pour Painting

Painted Easter Egg Suncatchers

Spring Chicks Egg Carton Craft at Typically Simple

Pair this craft with a great Easter book

It’s so much fun to pair a craft with a fun book. And, since you need to wait for your paint to dry, it’s the perfect time for a quick story time. Here are some great Easter books that would pair perfectly with this craft:

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Join our fun Facebook community, Creative Family Fun for Busy Families, for daily activities that are great for kids and families. We’ll chat, share, and have fun. It’s a safe and private place to share ideas for family and kids activities.

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Egg Carton Easter Crafts for Kids

March 19, 2019 By Terri Thompson

Did you buy extra eggs to dye for Easter? Yep, me too!

And now, after all the fun of dying Easter egg, I’ve got an extra egg carton (or two or three). So what should we do about those extras? How about making some fun egg carton Easter crafts.

Your kids will love making these cute and colorful Easter crafts with egg cartons this year!

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Here are some great crafts you’ll love, from bunnies and baskets to chicks and flowers.

Which one is your favorite? I don’t know which one I like best. We may have to make them all!

What do you do with all those extra egg cartons? You can make some of these fun Egg Carton Easter Crafts. Choose from bunnies, baskets, chicks, and more.

Egg Carton Easter Crafts for Kids

Use a portion of an egg carton to make our simple Egg Carton Easter Basket that will hold four Easter eggs.

Or, you can use the entire egg carton to make a larger basket like this one from Fun-A-Day.

You can also make this other Easter basket version using single egg cups like these from Learning 4 Kids.

What do you do with all those extra egg cartons? You can make some of these fun Egg Carton Easter Crafts. Choose from bunnies, baskets, chicks, and more.

Cut up an egg carton to make these super-cute Egg Carton Chicken Egg Cups from Red Ted Art.

Make these colorful and cute Spring Chick Egg Carton Crafts from Typically Simple.

Use pompom chicks to create these Egg Carton Hatching Chicks from Crafty Morning.

What do you do with all those extra egg cartons? You can make some of these fun Egg Carton Easter Crafts. Choose from bunnies, baskets, chicks, and more.

These cute open and close Egg Carton Easter Bunnies from The Best Ideas for Kids can also hold a little bit of candy.

Or, you can make a cute Easter Bunny like this from Red Ted Art that can hold candy or an Easter egg.

Use a large portion of an egg to make a pretty Easter Cross from Teach-Me-Mommy.

What do you do with all those extra egg cartons? You can make some of these fun Egg Carton Easter Crafts. Choose from bunnies, baskets, chicks, and more.

Make a beautiful bouquet of Egg Carton flowers like these from Kitchen Counter Chronicles.

Or, use egg cartons and straws to make these cute flowers from I Heart Crafty Things.

Make beautiful bluebells out of egg cartons like these from Buggy and Buddy.

Which of these egg carton Easter crafts do you want to make with your kids?

What do you do with all those extra egg cartons? You can make some of these fun Egg Carton Easter Crafts. Choose from bunnies, baskets, chicks, and more.

You may also like one of these fun kids Easter crafts:

Watercolor Easter Egg Garlands

Painted Easter Egg Suncatcher

Shake Art Easter Eggs

Pretty Easter Garland Crafts for Kids

What do you do with all those extra egg cartons? You can make some of these fun Egg Carton Easter Crafts. Choose from bunnies, baskets, chicks, and more.

Extend the fun with a great Easter book

We love to combine a craft with a book. So, when you’re making one of these awesome Easter crafts from egg cartons, choose one of these fun Easter books for a perfect craft afternoon.

Do more activities with your family

Join our fun Facebook community, Creative Family Fun for Busy Families, for daily activities that are great for kids and families. We’ll chat, share, and have fun. It’s a safe and private place to share ideas for family and kids activities.

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Beautiful Daffodil Crafts for Kids

March 11, 2019 By Terri Thompson

I always feel so hopeful when I first see signs of spring flowers. Don’t you?

It won’t be long until all those colorful spring flowers bloom.

Even if you still have awhile before the flowers bloom, these daffodil crafts will brighten up your home.

Celebrate spring with these beautiful daffodil crafts for kids. These spring flower crafts are so simple and so much fun to create.

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Daffodil crafts for kids

You’ll find a wide variety of daffodil crafts in this list below.

There are ideas for kids of all ages. You can make a fun 3-D crafts, or a beautiful card to send to a friends.

Whether you use a paper plate or some recycled materials, let’s grab our supplies and get started creating.

Daffodil Crafts for Kids

Your kids will love to welcome spring with these beautiful daffodil crafts.

Beautiful daffodil pinwheels :: St David's Day craft

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Have fun playing with this beautiful daffodil pinwheel that you make yourself.

Paper Plate Daffodils

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Turn paper plates into a bouquet of daffodils.

Potato Stamped 3D Daffodil Craft

Photo Credit: www.iheartartsncrafts.com

Use potato stamps to create this pretty daffodil craft.

3d Pop Up Daffodil Card - Red Ted Art's Blog

Photo Credit: www.redtedart.com

Make a pop-up daffodil card to send you to your friends.

Create a Spring Daffodil Picture

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Cut and glue to make a pretty daffodil picture.

Pop Up Daffodils

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Turn paper plates and cupcake liners into gorgeous pop-up daffodils.

Daffodil Thumb Print Salt Dough Keepsake

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Make pretty salt dough daffodil keepsakes.

Spring Art Project for Toddlers and Preschoolers

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Paint pretty daffodils with this simple art invitation.

DIY Daffodil Clay Pots or Candle Holders 14

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Create a gorgeous clay daffodil candle holder.

Spring Daffodil Craft

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Make this beautiful 3-D daffodil craft.

Cupcake Liner Daffodil Art

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Turn cupcake holders into a simple daffodil craft.

Spring crafts :: beautiful daffodil bunting

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Decorate with a beautiful daffodil bunting you made yourself.

You may also like one of these crafts for kids:

Beautiful Spring Art Projects for Kids

Butterfly Paper Plate Wreath

Rain and Raindrop Crafts for Kids

Awesome Sun Crafts for Kids

Wind Chime Crafts for Kids

Celebrate spring with these beautiful daffodil crafts for kids. These spring flower crafts are so simple and so much fun to create.

Enjoy a spring book while you create

Combine one of these beautiful daffodil crafts with a book for a wonderful family activity time. Here are a few books you may like:

Do you want to do more activities with your kids?

Join our fun Facebook community, Creative Family Fun for Busy Families, for daily activities that are great for kids and families. We’ll chat, share, and have fun. It’s a safe and private place to share ideas for family and kids activities.

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Fun Leprechaun Crafts for Kids

March 4, 2019 By Terri Thompson

Let’s celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with some fun leprechaun crafts!

There are so many fun St. Patrick’s Day crafts you can do, from shamrocks to rainbows. But you can’t forget the lucky leprechaun!

These fun leprechauns are all great crafts for kids to make. They aren’t too mischievous, but they are colorful and friendly.

Let’s grab some supplies and get started crafting!

Have fun this St. Patrick's Day with these fun and friendly leprechaun crafts for kids. Get create with these simple kid's crafts.

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Fun Leprechaun Crafts

You’ll find all sorts of fun crafts in this list, from puppets to cards to bookmarks. You’ll even find some great dress-up crafts!

Which one of these is your favorite?

Leprechaun Crafts for Kids

Fun Leprechaun crafts your kids will love to make for St. Patrick's Day.

Leprechaun Craft

Photo Credit: www.thebestideasforkids.com

Use cardboard tubes to make this super-cute and friendly leprechaun.

Articulated Leprechaun Paper Puppet for St Patrick's Day - Red Ted Art's Blog

Photo Credit: www.redtedart.com

Use the printable template to make this fun Leprechaun paper puppet.

Leprechaun Handprint

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Trace your child's handprint to help them make this Leprechaun card.

Kids Leprechaun Craft

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This torn-paper leprechaun craft is great for fine motor skills.

Leprechaun Hat St. Patrick's Day Craft for Kids

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Your kids can dress up as a leprechaun after they make this fun craft.

Leprechaun Craft - Make A Beard

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Add this fun curly beard for the perfect leprechaun costume.

Trim the Leprechaun Beard Craft

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You kids will love using their scissors to cut their leprechaun's beard with this craft.

Leprechaun Paper Bag Puppet Kid Craft

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Make a fun leprechaun paper bag puppet! It's fun to make and play!

Easy Doily Leprechaun Craft for Kids

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Use a paper doily to make this cute leprechaun.

Leprechaun Corner Bookmark for St Paddy's Day - Red Ted Art's Blog

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Mark the pages in your book with this fun corner bookmark.

Leprechaun Envelope Puppet

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Turn an envelope into a fun leprechaun puppet.

Paper Plate and Handprint Leprechaun Mask

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This leprechaun paper plate mask is fun to make and wear.

Aren’t these the cutest ideas? I want to make them all!

So, pick your favorites, get out the crafts supplies, and spend some quality time with your kids.

Have fun this St. Patrick's Day with these fun and friendly leprechaun crafts for kids. Get create with these simple kid's crafts.

You may also enjoy these St. Patrick’s Day activities

St. Patrick’s Day Hundred Chart Game

Fun Shamrock Crafts for Kids

St. Patrick’s Day Word Scramble

Shamrock Potato Prints Printmaking Project

Read a book to go with your craft

When we make holiday crafts, it’s always so much fun to add a book. It’s a great way to pass the time when waiting for paint or glue to dry. And, it makes for a fun family activity. Here are some great books to read with your leprechaun crafts.

Do you want to do more activities with your kids?

Join our fun Facebook community, Creative Family Fun for Busy Families, for daily activities that are great for kids and families. We’ll chat, share, and have fun. It’s a safe and private place to share ideas for family and kids activities.

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