25+ Toilet Paper Roll Activities that Are Easy and Enjoyable!

As working parents, we understand how important it is to engage kids in positive and learning activities🤍 that will support their long-term development📈. We make an effort to spend the majority of our time with our kids and frequently show them extra care.

To keep them from getting bored and using electronic devices, we are constantly searching📱 for new and interesting things to do with them. Toilet paper rolls🧻 are very useful as they can be used for playing games as well as making crafts. Kids can have a lot of fun while using them.

Toilet paper roll activities will provide freshness and enjoyment to your kids’ lives. These activities are kid-friendly and cost-effective.

Interesting Toilet paper roll activities for your kids

You’ve come to the right spot if you’re looking for something entertaining and productive for your children. I’d be happy to direct you toward some new and exciting😆 toilet paper roll activities to help your kids have an engaging and fun day.

Not only will your kids enjoy😆 themselves immensely with these activities, but they will also improve their creativity and imagination. The things your children do daily, and these activities are slightly different.

In this blog post, I’ve compiled a comprehensive list📃 of all the fun and practical toilet roll activities for your kids. This blog will offer you invaluable assistance and guidance in carrying out engaging 🤩 toilet paper roll activities with your children.

Making Binoculars

You can motivate your kids to make binoculars with the help of toilet paper rolls🧻. Materials needed for this activity are toilet paper rolls, markers🖊️, glue, and a string.

Kids can gather two paper rolls together and paste them. Then, they can attach a string🧵 to it as a strap. This would be a nice, creative, and productive activity. They can draw beautiful designs and patterns on it to make it look more attractive.

Pro Tip:

My kids performed this activity with full energy🔥 and enthusiasm. They made their binoculars very colorful and appealing. They used these binoculars while playing with their friends🥰.

Puppet making

You can motivate your kids to make beautiful puppets out of toilet paper rolls🧻. They can shape these roles into animals🐀 or characters. Attach these puppets with a string and perform a skit.

Materials needed for this activity are googly eyes, strings, scissors✂️, tape, markers, and toilet paper rolls. You can help them in shaping and decorating puppets. This activity will help them in learning something productive🤓 and exciting.

When I conducted this activity at my home🏠 my kids performed a very mesmerizing puppet show based on a beautiful story. Their presentation and communication skills improved through this interactive activity.

Beautiful bracelets

Converting toilet paper rolls into small and beautiful bracelets📿 would be a fun activity to do. Encourage your kids to do this activity on the upcoming weekend. Provide them with toilet paper rolls, small ornaments, string, and colored markers🖊️.

You can cut the toilet paper roll into small pieces. They can decorate these pieces with paint🎨, markers, and colored paper.

After decorating them and stitching them into a bracelet, kids can wear them in their hands. They would feel happy😊 and proud wearing their handmade bracelets.

Pro Tip:

This activity helped my kids improve their concentration and design skills. Their weekend got more exciting😆 and fruitful. They even gifted these bracelets to their friends and family👨‍👩‍👦‍👦.

Caterpillar or snake-making

Making creative figures like caterpillars🐛 and snakes🐍 de de de with the help of toilet paper rolls would be a fun and creative activity. You can motivate your kids to perform this interesting activity at home🏠.

Materials needed for this fun-filled activity are toilet paper rolls, paint colors🎨, colored markers, glue, and scissors✂️. This activity will provide your kids with an opportunity to represent their creative skills. Kids can assemble multiple toilet rolls in a single line and paint them beautifully.

My kids performed this activity with full enthusiasm and energy⚡. They painted every section of the toilet paper roll🧻 very beautifully. I placed their lovely craft in their respective rooms.

Bowling game

Kids love to play bowling🎳. But playing it with toilet paper rolls would be a different and exciting😆 activity to do. You can arrange multiple toilet paper rolls together and give your kids a softball.

Whoever hits the most toilet rolls will be the winner🏆. Arrange some prizes for the winner to make this game more exciting😆 and enjoyable. This will increase your kids’ competitive spirit.

Pro Tip:

My kids had a very enjoyable and happy time while playing this game. They played it with full dedication and enthusiasm😆. The wasted toilet rolls were put to use to do something fun and productive.

Telephone game

You can persuade your kids to make toy telephones📞 with the help of toilet paper rolls. Materials needed for this activity are paper rolls, string, paint colors, and scissors✂️.

Kids can decorate two toilet paper rolls🧻 with colors and paint and then attach these two rolls with string. Now, these rolls will act as telephones📞 and kids can use them to communicate with each other.

The time when my kids performed this activity I helped them in punching holes and attaching strings. It was a very exhilarating and entertaining activity. The kids got a new toy🧮 to play with.

Rocket Ship making

Kids love to play with rockets🚀 and blast them off in the air. But making a rocket themselves would be a more fun and creative thing to do. You can persuade your kids to make rockets with the help of toilet paper rolls🧻 and play with them.

Materials needed for this activity are painting 🎨, paper rolls, paper fins, glue, colored markers, and scissors✂️. Now, kids can make rockets and color them. They can attach paper fins below rockets and have fun blasting them off.

Pro Tip:

These types of interactive activities help kids to improve their innovation and imagination. These skills help them in their future progress.

My kids had an enjoyable time while doing this fun-filled activity. They did their best and made very beautiful rockets🚀.

Tunnel making

Kids enjoy playing with cars🚗. You can persuade your kids to build a tunnel with the help of toilet paper rolls and pass their cars through it. Materials needed for this activity are empty toilet paper rolls, scissors✂️, toy cars, colored pens, and decorative materials.

They can decorate the outside of the paper rolls🧻 with colors and markers and then arrange the rolls in a tunnel form.

Now, let your kids drive cars through this handmade tunnel. You can help them make the tunnel in case they have difficulties. This would be a nice, creative, and enjoyable🤩 activity.

I also encouraged my kids to perform this activity at home🏠. They had a lot of fun while playing with their cars🚘. They also made a race track🏁 accompanying the tunnel, making it more interesting.

Fishing Game

Although they are too young and too small to enjoy it, kids find fishing🎣 to be quite fascinating. You can prepare an artificial fishing stick and pond for them. Use toilet paper rolls to create a fishing stick.

You can let your kids make this fishing stick. They can add a paper clip to the end of the paper roll. Now, they can make fish🎏 with the help of cardboard and add paper clips to them.

They can tie the string to toilet paper rolls and add a magnet to its end. Now, you can let your kids fish.

Pro Tip:

This was a really fun😆 activity for my kids to do. They had never done it before, and they had a great time. All in all, it was an imaginative and daring activity.

Building small Cityscape

You can persuade your kids to build a miniature city🌃 with the help of toilet paper rolls. They can use these rolls to form buildings and houses with the help of their creative imagination. 

Materials needed for this interesting activity are empty toilet paper rolls, paint🎨, markers, or colored paper.

Now, they can decorate paper rolls in the form of buildings and houses and decorate them with the help of colors and markers. They can even add details like windows🪟 and doors.

I also convinced my children to complete this task at home🏠. They gave it their all, performing it with passion and commitment. This was an imaginative and creative exercise.

Maze Puzzle making

You can persuade your kids to do something fun😆 and interesting with the help of toilet paper rolls🧻.

They can make a maze puzzle. Materials needed for this activity are empty toilet paper rolls, small balls or marble, colored paper, or markers.

Firstly, kids can paper rolls into half in the form of a tube🧪. Arrange these tubes on the floor in the form of a maze. Kids can create obstacles or pathways with the help of colors. This will make the game more interesting.

Pro Tip:

At home🏠, my kids engaged in this same activity. It was daring and imaginative. It was challenging to organize, so I assisted them in creating this maze. 

Seed pots

Kids can make seed🌱 starter pots with the help of toilet paper rolls. Materials needed for this activity are empty toilet paper rolls🧻, soil, seeds, a tray, or a plate. This would be a nice educational and productive activity.

Firstly, your kids can cut paper rolls in half. Fill each half with soil and plant seeds☘️. Now, they can arrange these filled rolls in a tray or a plate. This will be the end of the activity.

I also made my kids do this productive activity at home🏠. They learned a lot about plants and how their growth starts. These types of activities help kids to improve their skills and knowledge.

Kaleidoscope

Kids love to see through kaleidoscopes. But making one on their own would be a fun🤩 thing to do. They can use toilet paper rolls to make kaleidoscopes. Other materials needed would be colored beads, sequins, small objects, a plastic bag, and a rubber band.

Now, kids can cover one end of a paper roll. They can decorate the paper rolls with paint🎨 and markers. Fill the roll with sequins, beads, and small objects. Hold it up in the light, and the kaleidoscope will be ready.

My kids also did this creative and interesting activity with their friends🥰. They were extremely fascinated and mesmerized by the kaleidoscope.

Bird Feeder

Using toilet paper rolls🧻 for making a bird feeder would be a very useful and productive activity. You can persuade your kids to do this activity. Materials needed for this activity are paper rolls, peanut butter, bird seeds🌱, and a string.

Firstly, kids can spread peanut butter on the outer surface of a paper roll🧻 and roll it in bird seeds. Attach a string with the roll and hang it on a tree branch. Now, let your kids observe the way birds feed.

Pro Tip:

My kids also made this useful bird feeder🦢. They got to learn more about birds and how they feed.

Flower stamps

Kids love to play with stamps. With the help of toilet paper rolls, they can make their stamps. Materials needed for this activity are empty toilet paper rolls, paint🎨, and paper.

Now, kids can make the stamps by flattening the roll and dipping it into the paint. To make the shape of a flower🌸, stamp the painted end onto paper. After this, your stamp is ready. Now, your kids can have fun using this stamp on different papers.

My kids performed this activity with full enthusiasm and energy⚡. They made stamps in different shapes like balloons, stars, rockets, etc.

Rainbow Windsock

Windsocks are fascinating and fun to play with. You can persuade your kids to create rainbow🌈 windsocks with the help of toilet paper rolls. Materials needed for this activity are colored paper, paint, glue, string, and ribbons.

Now, kids can design toilet paper rolls with paint and markers in the form of a rainbow. Then, they can attach ribbons🎗️ to the inside of the roll and a string for hanging. Now the windsock is ready, your kids can hang it in their room.

Pro tip:

My kids also made different windsocks with toilet paper rolls🧻. They lantern windsock, fish windsock, and many others. It was a very delightful activity to do.

Spyglass making

Kids can make a spyglass with the help of toilet paper rolls. They can use this spyglass while playing different games. Materials needed for this activity are empty toilet paper rolls, colored paper, paint🎨, glue, and markers.

Use markers, stickers, paint, colored paper, or other decorations to adorn the exterior of the toilet paper roll🧻. By pushing or pulling the ends, you can extend and retract the spyglass, making it a fun toy for pretend play.

When my kids performed this activity, they had a lot of fun😆 playing with this spyglass. It was a very interesting and creative activity to do.

Rolling paint brushes

Painting is kids’ favorite activity to do. You can persuade your kids to make rolling paintbrushes with the help of toilet paper rolls. Materials needed for this activity are empty toilet paper rolls, clothespins, sponges🧽, and paint.

Put a clothespin on one end of the roll of toilet paper. Shapes made from sponge or craft foam can be fastened to the clothespins. Your child can roll the foam or sponge dipped in paint to make vibrant patterns on paper📃.

Pro tip:

This is an imaginative and useful exercise for the day. My children engaged in this activity as well. Their dull day became interesting🤩 as a result.

Conclusion

In conclusion, kids can find a variety of imaginative and stimulating ways to engage with these toilet paper roll🧻 activities. Every activity, from creative play to skill development, fosters ingenuity and awakens the young mind. These crafts encourage recycling and repurposing in addition to being enjoyable😆, which helps people develop an eco-friendly mindset.

These crafts can also be readily altered to suit individual preferences and available materials, creating countless combinations and original results. They present a fantastic chance for parents👨‍👩‍👦 and kids to spend quality time together, encouraging bonding via shared play and creativity.

If you have any questions for me to answer or if you know of any other activities I should add to this list, please feel free to leave a comment below. I would be happy to speak with you! ❤️