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Toilet Roll Butterfly

A great craft activity for a rainy day

Material

1 toilet roll
1 sheet A4 paper
1 piece A4 card
2 googley eyes
1 pipe cleaner
1 squeeze bottle of glue
1 handful decorations - glitter, feathers, paper squares etc

Method

Cut wing shapes out of card and paper. Stick the paper onto the card. If your card is white or coloured you will not need the paper on the wings.
Cut a rectangle out of the paper to cover the outside of the toilet roll and stick paper on toilet roll.
Time to decorate your toilet roll and wings. Glue on decorations and googley eyes.
Stick the toilet roll onto the wings in the centre to create your butterfly. Finishing touch is gluing the pipe cleaner which you bend in half into the top of the toilet roll with the two ends pointing out.
Leave to dry overnight.

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This project was posted by:

- chicken83
- 15 Mar 2014
  8:56 pm

48 Comments
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- - meedee said
  - 07 Jul 2022
    12:04 pm
I found that my local discount store has loads of amazing craft supplies for very cheap prices.

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- - mom19782016 said
  - 15 Oct 2020
    4:22 pm
The googly eyes are the best!

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- - mom111059 said
  - 24 Jun 2018
    2:22 pm
I can see this being turned into an elephant. Just need a trunk. Thanks for an imaginative idea.

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- - mom111059 said
  - 23 Jun 2018
    9:04 pm
Recycling of toilet rolls is such a great thing to do. Kids have fun making and playing instead of just throwing it out. Thanks for sharing your idea.

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- - mom112217 said
  - 28 Oct 2016
    7:10 am
Alot of fun to make and a great craft idea!

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- - mom109229 said
  - 28 Sep 2015
    9:27 pm
Very cute and fun! Thanks for sharing.

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- - dannsbuild said
  - 20 Sep 2015
    11:56 pm
Pretty! Really nice idea! Thanks for sharing this!

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- - mom152736 said
  - 07 Sep 2015
    1:34 pm
toilet rolls crafts are so much fun !

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- - Kell said
  - 22 Jun 2015
    10:49 am
Another great idea for school holidays

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- - ella12 said
  - 10 Jun 2015
    4:29 pm
This certainly looks very crafty.

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- - mel_phillips said
  - 31 May 2015
    6:28 am
A great idea for using all those toilet rolls that seem to accumulate! Thanks for sharing!!

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- - rovermum said
  - 25 May 2015
    10:48 am
Very clever. When my son was younger and we used to watch Hi-5 I was always creating (with his help) things out of toilet paper rolls to play with. We would make kaleidoscopes, streamers to dance with when watching the show. It was great fun. We would also make them for the other kids when they came over. Simple craft with so many uses.
- mom94125 replied
  
  09 Oct 2015 , 12:33 am
  yes play school is just good like that too
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- - cherz said
  - 21 May 2015
    7:42 pm
Such a beautiful butterfly. thanx.

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- - aliceou said
  - 21 May 2015
    4:46 pm
I love this creative idea!

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- - mom90758 said
  - 21 May 2015
    12:43 pm
Beautiful!!

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- - mom93821 said
  - 09 Nov 2014
    10:59 am
Thanks for sharing this creative and colourful butterfly!

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- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Nov 2014
    1:48 pm
this is a wonderful idea to try. thanks for posting this

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- - ginoula5 said
  - 04 Aug 2014
    9:55 am
pretty toilet roll butterfly, love this

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- - lou3 said
  - 30 Jun 2014
    2:05 pm
Beautiful

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- - no1ladydj said
  - 24 Jun 2014
    12:55 am
What a great way to encourage creativity and imagination in kids, without resorting to computers and technology. It doesn’t have to cost a lot to keep kids amused, it just takes a bit of thought.
- mom57522 replied
  
  13 Jan 2015 , 8:27 pm
  And a bit of recycling!
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