Easy DIY Craft: Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly

This adorable toilet paper roll butterfly craft is so fun and easy to make. Given below are the steps courtesy of thebestideasforkids.com.

Supplies required are: Toilet paper roll, Small googly eyes, Colored buttons, Cardstock– pink, purple, yellow or any color you want your wings to be, Acrylic paint, Pipe Cleaner, Small pom poms, and Black sharpie.

Fold a piece of cardstock in half. Trace the template from our new book or draw your own wings.

Cut out the wings.

Glue colored buttons to the butterfly wings. Or have fun decorating the wings however you’d like! You can use pom poms, craft gems or even just color on your own designs.

To make the antennae, bend the pipe cleaner into the shape of a “V”. Curl the tips of the “V” down. Glue two small pom-poms to the tips.

Glue the antennae to the inside top of the paper roll. Glue the googly eyes near the top of the paper roll and draw a mouth with the black marker.

Finally, glue the wings to the back of the paper roll.

Easy DIY Craft: Square Pillow Gift Box

Today, we will be making a Pillow box in a square shape, perfect for gifting smaller items like toffees and jewellery. Below are the steps courtesy of hobbyideas.in.

Supplies needed are : Paper, ribbon, pen pencil, and CD.

Draw two circles into the sheet as shown in the picture. Divide the circle into four quarters using the CD itself as shown in the picture.

Cut out the drawn figure and fold at all inner arcs to form this shape.

You can stick the boxes flaps or just tie them using a ribbon and your box is ready.

Easy DIY Crafts: Pipe Cleaner Monkey

Here’s a fun monkey craft for kids of all ages! Grab some pipe cleaners and some wooden beads and transform them into a cute posable monkey.  The monkey can even hang onto a pencil! Given below are the steps courtesy of frugalfun4boys.com.

Here’s what you need to make a pipe cleaner monkey: brown pipe cleaners – 3 per monkey, wooden beads, googly eyes, hot glue, brown felt, brown and tan acrylic paint, yellow pipe cleaners – for bananas. The larger beads do not have a hole all the way through, so they were perfect for the head. The smaller beads made the bodies of our monkeys. Paint them brown with a color that matched pipe cleaners as closely as possible.

Start with 3 pipe cleaners, and twist them together as shown. The top three strands will be for the head and arms. The bottom three will make the legs and tail.

Slide the body bead onto all three lower strands.

Then start bending the pipe cleaner legs to make feet. The legs look best if they have a double layer of pipe cleaner.  So form the feet, and then bend the excess upward. Either tuck the end into the body bead, or wrap it around the monkey’s “waist” (below the bead).

Next bend the arms. Cut the head strand so that you have just enough left to fold over to be a neck. Attach the head with a little hot glue. Then cut tiny rounded ears out of felt.  Glue those to the sides of the head. Your cute monkey is ready!