Making : Toilet Paper Roll – Parachute Man
One of the things that has been ‘missing’ from our little home is our arts and crafts time.
Anya is in Primary 1 this year, and that means she most likely has homework to finish or tests to prepare at home, everyday. And, when I was heavily pregnant (and after Brie was born), I simply had not much energy nor drive to do crafts with the kids.
But last week, we managed to do some crafts, again!
*So happy*
The kids did some drawings too with watercolour!
Will share the ideas one by one.
For now, here’s a simple craft idea! We made a parachute man, using toilet paper roll!
What we used:
– Toilet paper roll
– Watercolour
– Paper carton (basically, a rather ‘thick’ paper)
– Scissors, glue, coloured markers
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What we did:
1. Halve the toilet paper roll (see photo), and watercolour one of it
(You can choose to watercolour both sides of the roll. Vai only coloured the ‘outside’ part of roll though)
2. Cut two strips of paper (we used a drawing paper, but you can always use paper carton, or even cereal box for this)
3. Fold the strips (see photo), and watercolour them
4. Stick the paper strips onto the inside of the toilet roll (see photo). This will be the ‘ropes’ onto which the man will ‘hold on to’
5. Draw an outline of a person on the other half of the toilet paper roll. Cut it out, and draw the face, hair, clothes, etc on it.
6. Hang the ‘man’ onto the ‘ropes’, and you’ll have a man on a parachute!! =)
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Tips:
If you’d like to really ‘hang’ this craft (or let the child ‘hold’ the parachute in his hand), then you can always:
– make a hole at the centre of the toilet roll parachute
– insert a strand of wool or some sort of string into the hole
– stick the string to the inside of the toilet roll using a scotch tape
– tie the other end of the string to a wooden chopstick, for the child to hold
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Have fun with your parachute man!! =)
