Paper Tube Crafts

Paper tube craft is just one of those arts made from paper.  There are various types of paper materials used in crafting activities. Paper tube craft emerged as another type of craft that makes use of paper tubes or rolls. This was easily accepted by the majority since the base material is cheap and is always availability. Generally, tissue paper and paper towels have tubes or rolls. This now becomes the key component in making beautiful paper crafts.

The invention of paper tube relates generally to elongated paper tube or paper wound tubes. It has supportive end rings within each end of the tube.  The inside and outside diameters of the tube are uniformly made end to end.  

The elongated tubes are known for the art. These tubes are generally spirally wound and use to support different materials.  The materials that it supports depend upon the length and strength of the tube.  For instance, lightweight paper products like toilet paper and paper towels are wound around much shorter and small in diameter. These are designed for single use then discarded if exhausted. 

There are other kinds of paper tubes for different use.  The invention of it is merely for the purpose of economy and easy to construct, durable, reusable, and well suited paper tubes for whatever purpose it will serve.

Here are simple objects you can make with a paper towel or toilet tissue tube.

TREES

1. Get a small tube.  Make two downward slits across one another at the top of the tube.
2. Get a green paper plate. From this, you should be able to produce two equal halves.
3. Place a small stickers of birds, apples or whatever thing on the half of the plate.
4. Let your child see how to place the plate half in the slits on the tube, create a green tree with a brown trunk.

BRACELETS

1. Cut 1” section of a cardboard tube for your child.
2. Set out marking pens and let your child decorate his bracelet.
3. If the bracelet is hard for the child to slip on his hand, cut one side in half.  Allow it to expand enough to slip on.

TALKING PUPPET

1. Place a single tube with one end down on a paper plate.
2. Draw the tube around using a pencil
3. Cut out the circle on the paper plate
4. Give the plate with the hole on it.  Give also some marking pens or crayons to your child.
5. Let your child draw two eyes, a nose and hair on their plate.  Let him create a face with a hole for a mouth.
6. Turn over the plate.  Attach the tube using any kind of tape.
7. Let your child see how to talk in the other end of the tube.  Let him make his plate puppet talk.

BINOCULARS

1. Get two tubes.  Tape them together.
2. Let your child hold them up to her eyes to look through.
3. For colored glasses use squares of colored cellophane paper.  Put it at the tube ends.

BIRD PUPPET STAGE

1. Get a clean toilet tissue and cut out a hole in the top of it.
2. Let your child draw some green leaves around the hole.
3. This is now a tree with a bird living in a large hole in the tree
4. Give it to your child.  Show him how to stick his finger up from the bottom of the tube.
5. Add beak and eyes to your child’s finger using a black marking pen.
6. Teach your child to talk to the bird, talk for the bird in the tree as well.

FIRECRACKER

1. Let your child get a small tube and a piece of red paper cut to fit around it.
2. Let him glue the paper to the tube.
3. Give him star stickers.  Attach it to the red paper.
4. Fold a piece of aluminum foil.  Cut it in ¼” strips size.

Let your child insert the straw to the tube.  Let him see how to move the sparkler up and down.