I love making things with stuff we might throw away. We have been collecting cardboard tubes or loo rolls for ages to make this super cute cardboard tube village.
I have seen lots of these sorts of villages lit up at Christmastime and they look wonderful, but we are a colourful family and decided that our village would be a reflection of us.
How to make a cardboard tube village
Materials
- Cardboard tube
- Craft knife
- Paint
- colourful scrapbook papers
- Glue
- Battery operated tealights
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Instructions
It really is a super simple craft that you can do with kids of all ages, just make sure that you do not let the little ones lose with a craft knife!
Firstly paint your cardboard tubes a variety of colours and let them dry.
Cut out windows with your craft knife.
We painted our shutters a darker shade of the colour we painted the cardboard tubes.
Cut out the roofs using a circle. We practised a couple of times with our compass and some pain paper.
Once you have the circle, then cut out a chunk (technical term), so you don’t have too much paper and curl it round to form the cone and use clear tape to secure.
Glue your roof on the top of your houses.
You can then place the houses over a battery-operated tea light so it looks all ready for the darker evenings drawing in.
We had so much fun making these and they look wonderful with the tealights flickering in them on an evening.
Other cardboard tube crafts:
Scissor skills snakes
Cardboard tube rockets that fly
Cardboard tube firework art
Follow our cardboard pinterest board for lots more ideas
Follow Jen Walshaw’s board cardboard tube crafts on Pinterest.
Well I’m going to have to start keeping my loo rolls tubes now I want to make a little village! 😉 Love the pretty little roofs 🙂
They are so sweet – can’t beat a good trh craft.
These look great x
These look great x
Simple yet effective – another great craft project!
Another great idea to put on our rainy day craft list! Thanks Jen
Aw what a cute idea x x
Oh they are so cute – I can’t believe how simple to make they are. x
These are adorable!
It’s also made me think, that one painted red and black would make a great post box!
These are so cute and I love the different colours and patterns on the roof of each one! x
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These aww just so sweet, I have my niece coming to stay soon and think this may have to be one of our projects xxx
These are too cute, I love the idea x
They are fun and I can see how they might be adapted to make a spaceaged village.
They look adorable, and simple enough for a crafting idiot like me!
I think my son would love playing with his lego men in these!
such a cute village this would be perfect for reception
VERY CUTE little village
It looks like somewhere the smurfs might live! 🙂
This is such a darling idea! I absolutely love it. (I just KNEW that there was a reason that I’ve been saving all of those toilet paper tubes!)
I have a link party that I’m trying to grow. I invite you to share this idea (and a couple of others) at my Grandma Ideas Sharing Time link party at http://grandmaideas.com. My readers would LOVE this idea, too! The party goes from Wednesday through Friday at midnight Mountain Daylight Time in the United States. I hope to see you there. If you can’t make it this week, I hope that you can next week.
All the best,
Nina
Oh, these are simply gorgeous and so easy to make, I need to show them to Emma and get crafting this weekend!xx