These toilet paper roll octopus crafts are fun and easy to make. It’s great for younger kids and older kids. Learn about the octopus, practice fine motor skills, and make a fun octopus craft! Toilet paper crafts for kids are the best fun for crafting at home or in the classroom – so easy, so quick, and so handy! In less than 30 minutes your kids will have their own little Wiggles and Oggys.
How to make a toilet paper octopus craft for kids
Recycle toilet paper rolls that you have nearby to make these incredibly cute and fun octopus crafts. Use yarn and give them long dangling tentacles and cute little faces. This is ideal for preschoolers and elementary school age children.
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Train your fine motor skills when tying. This is ideal for the home or classroom. Would even be great for an ocean lesson.
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Supplies needed to make this fun wiggler craft
Instructions for this fun octopus craft
Step 1
Start by making four slits in one end of the toilet paper roll as shown.
step 2
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Fold the pieces together and glue them in place.
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step 3
Punch holes around the base of the other end.
step 4
To paint paint the toilet hoses in bright, bright colors and set them aside to dry. Decorate with something after drying white chalk and your googly eyes.
step 5
Finally, loop some lengths of wool into the holes around the base for the wobbly wobbly tentacles.
Tips: If you punch a hole at the top and attach a piece of string, you can carry your little octopus friend around and make him dance and wiggle.
Variation of this fun toilet paper roll octopus craft
The mess-free “instant” option: with markings or colored chalkdecorate the toilet tube with flourishes and attach yours googly eyes.
Instead of dying the toilet paper roll, you can wrap it in paper to make it look even prettier.
Our experience with this fun toilet paper roll octopus craft
Meet Wiggles and Oggy
“Wiggles and Oggy are best friends
Wiggles like to wiggle
And Oggy loves to dance“
When I made these loo roll squids with my daughter Molly over the weekend, she made up a little story while scribbling swirls and making faces for the squids. I tried to write down the story (snippets above) and tried not to miss anything. I just LOVE it when that happens, when our craft inspires storytelling, stories can go in all sorts of wonderful directions!!
The mayor of OctopusLand featured in this story makes laws! As did a jealous friend named Olly – let’s just say it was dramatic but they all lived happily ever after – hehe.
“Let’s play, let’s dodge sharks, let’s play with the clown fish and spy on some hammerhead sharks”
by Molly, 7 years
materials
toilet paper rolls
yarn
Paper eyes or googly eyes made of plastic
Glue
chalk
color (optional)
instructions
- Start by making four slits in one end of the toilet paper roll as shown.
- Fold the pieces together and glue them in place.
- Punch holes around the base of the other end.
- To paint paint the toilet hoses in bright, bright colors and set them aside to dry. Decorate with something after drying white chalk and your googly eyes.
- Finally, loop some lengths of wool into the holes around the base for the wobbly wobbly tentacles.
More toilet paper crafts from the kids activity blog:
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