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Is there anything funnier than accidentally gaining some new paper limbs after your hands have got covered in sticky glue during craft time with your kids? Probably not, because even the walls are caked in glue, making some tissue paper craft ideas with your kids is something you’ll cherish forever.
Here are a couple of easy paper craft ideas for kids that use things that you’ve probably got in the house already!
Oh, and these tissue paper craft ideas involve scissors. So, adults: handle the cutting. Kids: Go wild with painting and assembling the crafts. Let’s go!
Kitchen roll rocket | Recycled snake
Kitchen roll rocket paper craft
Looking for tissue paper craft ideas that will make time fly? It might never reach orbit, but this supersonic rocket recycling project is sure to keep your kids astronomically entertained!
Takes about 2 hours
What you’ll need
- Plenty kitchen roll tube
- Plenty kitchen paper
- Empty tissue box
- Soft tissues
- Side plate
- Red card
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Grey, blue, green and pink paint
- Paint brush
- Glue
- White, silver and red pens
Tip
Painting can get messy! Keep a piece of moistened kitchen paper on hand that's strong when wet, like Plenty, so you can wipe up spills as you go. It'll make the clean-up that little bit easier. And it can even tackle that spilled glue, because it remains strong even when wet and you can even rub with it.
Super recycled snake paper craft
For this next paper craft for kids, you’ll need to raid your bathroom bin for some empty toilet rolls. It’s time to make a brilliant wiggly snake, featuring everyone’s favourite craft item: googly eyes.
Takes about 1.5 hours
What you’ll need
- Toilet roll tubes
- 2 Plenty The Extra Big One household towel tubes
- Plenty household towels
- Green, orange, pink and yellow paint
- Red pen
- Red paper
- Glue
- Wiggle eyes
- String
- Scissors
- Drinking straw
- Hole punch or bradawl
And even though there wasn’t a step in those instructions telling you to make a mess – it’s totally cool if you did! You and your kids have come together to make some easy paper crafts, now it’s time to come together to figure how you got red food colouring on the ceiling…