How to Make a Toilet Paper Roll Collage

You’ll never run out of canvases for collaging using this toilet paper roll technique. In class or at home, for children or adults, this creative craft project is a fun, easy way of expressing yourself through recycled art.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 15 cardboard toilet paper rolls
• Magazines
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Twine

1. Collect 15 cardboard toilet paper rolls.

2. Collect a stack of five to 10 magazines on a specific theme, such as animals, landscapes, fashion, current events or wherever your interest lies. Go through each magazine and tear out any pages with images that catch your eye.

3. 

   Cut your magazine images into rectangles that are 4.5 inches wide by 5.75 inches tall, using your ruler as a guide and pencil to make your marks. If you see smaller images you’d like to use, you may simply paste several of them together on one toilet paper roll. Just be sure no cardboard shows through.

4. 

   On the back of each cut-out magazine clipping, use your glue stick along the perimeter.

5. Carefully paste each clipping onto a toilet paper roll. If cut to exact measurements outlined in Step 3, each end of the clipping should reach around and touch.

6. Cut your twine into 14 pieces that are 15 inches long and one piece that's 20 inches long.

7. Arrange your cardboard toilet paper rolls in your order of preference, one on top of another, so to speak, but lying on a flat surface--carpet works well as they tend to roll more on hard surfaces. Make sure your favorite part of the image is turned toward you.

8. 

   Connect each cardboard toilet paper roll with one your 15-inch pieces of twine. Simply thread the twine through the top toilet paper roll, then into the one underneath it. Tie the twine into a knot, cut off any excess length and gently pull the twine so as to hide the knot inside one of the rolls.

9. Repeat Step 8 until all 15 of your cardboard toilet paper rolls are connected, one on top of the next.

10. String your 20-inch piece of twine through your top toilet paper roll. Tie it into a knot and hide the knot inside the roll.

11. 

    Hang your cardboard toilet paper roll collage with a nail.

Tips & Warnings

• Instead of magazine clippings, you may collage with newspaper clippings, photographs, fabric remnants or any other materials that you’re inspired to try.
• Try a combination of materials. For example, cover each toilet paper roll in a newspaper clipping then paste relevant images and words from magazines on top of it. You can also incorporate paints or your own drawings.
• Fifteen toilet paper rolls is simply a suggestion. The length of your collage is up to you and can be determined simply by the number of images you want to use.

[inosine]

on 5/13/2009 hi,I would like to include this article on your toilet paper tube collage in an upcoming post on my blog ecopractical.blogspot.comI'm collecting a series of toilet paper tube projects and yours is really neat. Would that be alright? How would you like to be credited?please respond to esther.gregory at gmail.com*smiles*

[AbbyNormal]

on 4/27/2008 I think you need pictures with this, please,