Squirrel Toilet Paper Roll Craft

We have a creative recycled craft tutorial to share with you – let’s make a squirrel toilet paper roll craft together.

So start saving those rolls of paper, if you haven’t already, because you’re going to be making a lot of squirrels.

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Fall is a great time of year to make all sorts of crafts from wild animals, including squirrels.

You can make this squirrel toilet paper roll craft in natural colors or you can get creative and make squirrels from space.

We made a brown, green and red one!

The strange colors look quite interesting, don’t they?

Are you ready to get started with us?

How to make a squirrel toilet paper roll craft

What you need:

toilet paper roll
drag
glue
Acrylic color of your choice
colored paper (cardboard)
white cardboard
black pencil
circular ruler
comb

Let’s get started!

Step by step instructions

Cut 1/3 of a roll of toilet paper.

Cover the surface of the work with acrylic paint.

Cut a strip of dark colored paper.

Start rolling the strip to form a curved shape as shown in the picture.

Cut another strip. Make this strip smaller.

Make two small hands and one hand near the heart shape for the legs.

Study the picture carefully.

Draw two big eyes. Use a circular ruler and black eyeliner.

Use scissors to cut out the eye shape.

Apply some glue and stick the eyes to the toilet paper roll.

Draw a small nose and a mouth with two protruding teeth.

Apply some glue to the hands and feet and attach them to the body.

Cut out two ears and glue them to the head.

Take a rolled strip of paper, cut off the excess and fold it into a triangle as shown in the picture.

That would be the tail.

Glue the tail to the body.

Paint the ears with the same acrylic color you used for the body.

Done!

Acclaim!

This squirrel turned out really cool, what do you think?

See you soon with more fun crafts.

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