This is a great way to use up those toilet roll centres and cardboard boxes that are kicking around your home, and it’s great for kids from a few years old up to the teens! You could also use kitchen-roll centres if needed.
What you will need:
- Cardboard Toilet Roll Centre
- Sheet of Cardboard (An old box will do!)
- Permanent Marker
- Scissors
- Red Tissue paper (or other red alternative).
- Glue
- Take your cardboard and draw out two antlers- approximately [x] x [x] wide.
- Cut out the antlers.
- On the toilet roll centre, draw on two eyes, a mouth and nose.
- Scrunch up some red tissue paper into a ball and stick it on the nose.
- Now cut a slot on either side of the roll that you can slot your antlers into.
- Slide your antlers in and use some glue (or tape) to secure in place.
- For extra decoration, you can make a collar out of red ribbon.
For the Elves:
- Cardboard Toilet Roll Centre
- Sheet of Thin Card/coloured or plain
- Coloured pens or paints
- Mini pom poms
- Scissors
- Glue
- Tape
- Optional- felt.
- Cut your toilet roll centre at one end to create two pointy ears.
- Now paint/colour your rolls to look like elves- just over half should be one colour for the elf suit and the other half their face. (See Image).
- If you have felt, you can add a collar to the elf suit by cutting it into a strip of connected triangles. Glue this at the line between the face and suit.
- With a separate piece of card, cut it out into a large circle.
- Cut the circle in half and fold into a cone shape- glue shut.
- Place the cone on top of the tube and glue or tape into place to create the hat.
- Glue the pompom to the top of the hat and ta-da- your elf!
