Make Your Favorite Bugs With Toilet Paper Rolls

I have a habit of collecting empty toilet paper rolls. Just because one day I might find a craft or another use for them. This week, I challenged myself to find an easy craft to do with them and came up with bug-making.

You need toilet paper rolls, paint and brushes, vellum, scissors, glitter a 2-way-glue-pen, liquid glue, googely eyes and wire. 

We started out by painting the "body". While it dried, we took the vellum, folded it in half and drew the outlines of the wings on the top half paper. Now we cut it out of both halves and had our set of wings. Using a 2-way-glue-pen, we designed them by adding lines and circles. We added our glitter quickly, shook it off and transferred the excess back into the container. My daughter wanted to color her wings and did so by painting on the backside (the side without glitter).

To add the wings to the body, we glued them with a liquid all-medium glue to the paper roll. We then poked two holes through the paper roll (straight through top and bottom) and guided the wire through them. We left enough wire on the top which became one antenna and for the second antenna, we took a second piece that we also guided through the holes. We bent them to shape and to give our creatures some personality, we added our googely eyes, again with the strong liquid glue, which we just applied around the rim to attach the googely eyes.

After that we had a big smile on our faces. We did not expect our bugs to be so ... cute! Have fun making them, they are cute decorations in flowers, or, since we added wires, the children can take them places!