Creating charming little fairy houses from everyday materials like toilet paper rolls is a gorgeous craft activity that combines creativity, simplicity, and fun.
This toilet paper roll house craft is not only easy and accessible but also perfect for parents, teachers, or anyone looking to engage children in a creative and educational experience.
Here’s how you can create your own enchanting fairy houses using simple supplies you might already have at home.
Supplies Needed to Make Your Own Cardboard Tube Houses
- Toilet Paper Rolls: The base of our fairy houses.
- Colored Paper: To wrap around the rolls and to make the roofs – use contrasting colors for each house, a different color for the base and the roof.
- Scissors: For cutting paper to the right sizes.
- Glue: To assemble all the pieces together.
- Markers or Paints: For decorating your houses with windows, doors, and other details.
- Circle Template: You can use any round object for this. Helps in making even circles for the roofs.
Step-by-Step Instructions to make your own Cardboard Tube Houses
How to make cardboard tube fairy houses
Create enchanting fairy houses using toilet paper rolls! This simple craft involves wrapping rolls in colorful paper, drawing and attaching whimsical features, and topping them with cone-shaped roofs. It's a delightful, easy project perfect for sparking creativity and imagination in both kids and adults. Ideal for a fun, educational crafting session at home or school!
Materials
- Toilet Paper Rolls or Cardboard tubes such as kitchen roll
- Colored Paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers or Paints
- Circle Template / any round object
Instructions
- Start by selecting a toilet paper roll for each house you plan to make. These rolls serve as the main structure of your fairy houses.
- Wrap the Rolls. Choose colored paper and cut it to size so it wraps around the toilet paper roll completely.
Glue the paper onto each roll, making sure it’s smooth and there are no air bubbles. 
- Using markers or paints, draw doors, windows, and any other features you like onto a piece of white paper. You can be as detailed or as simple as you like. This is a great opportunity for kids to express their creativity!
- Cut out the windows, doors and other features
- Glue them onto the colored tubes.
Kids can get creative with this step, lay them out however you like best. 
- Use a circle template to draw and cut out circles from different colored paper for the roofs.
- Decorate each circle with fun patterns using your black marker.
- Each circle should then be cut from one edge to the center, allowing you to fold them into a cone shape. Adjust the size of the cut to make sure the cone fits perfectly on top of your roll.
- Once you have the right size, glue the edges of the cone to hold the roof shape.
- Glue the cone-shaped roof on top of your decorated roll. Make sure it’s securely attached.
- Add any additional decorations you’d like, such as drawing a chimney, flowers, or even using fabric scraps for curtains in the windows.
This toilet paper roll craft is more than just a fun activity. It’s a fantastic way for children to learn about construction, design, and the use of recycled materials in art.
The simplicity of the materials needed—mostly just paper rolls, paper, and glue—makes this craft incredibly accessible and easy to set up.
This activity can also help develop fine motor skills as children cut, glue, and decorate. It also encourges creativity and imagination as they think about what features their fairy houses should have.
Whether it’s a school project in June or a rainy day activity in spring, making these fairy houses offers a perfect mix of education and entertainment.
Crafting these fairy houses provides a wonderful opportunity for bonding. Parents and teachers can share insights into simple architectural designs and decorations, making each crafting session educational and memorable.
These cute creations can even be used as decorations in the classroom or at home, or as props in storytelling.
With just a few materials and a burst of creativity, toilet paper rolls transform into whimsical fairy houses that spark joy and imagination in everyone involved.
So grab your scissors, paper, and glue, and let the magic of crafting begin!
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More Toilet Paper Roll Crafts
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Anna Marikar, mum of four and seasoned blogger, has spent over a decade sharing her parenting journey and passion for kid-friendly crafts and free printables.
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