Toddler Craft: Log Cabin Made from Toilet Paper Rolls

If you and your toddler are eagerly saving up toilet paper rolls for a big project, or if you have been saving lots of toilet paper rolls and want to use them up on one project, there is a toddler craft project that takes 7 toilet papers rolls. What is the toddler craft? A log cabin on a piece of land. In addition to using toilet paper rolls you and your little one will need to use construction paper, a cereal box, some glue, some tape and a little bit of cotton if you both want the log cabin to have smoke coming out of the chimney.

The best kind of toilet paper rolls for this craft are obviously the kinds that are brown already, but if you only have white toilet paper rolls don’t despair. You and your toddler can cover them with tan or brown construction paper or your toddler can color them with a brown crayon. This of course would be your first step, if your toilet paper rolls are already brown you can move on to covering your cereal box with construction paper. Cover the front, top, bottom and two sides of the cereal box with green construction paper to represent grass. In the craft the box will be laying down so there is no reason to cover the back of the box.

The next step will be to build your cabin, with the help of your toddler the two of you can stack and glue three toilet paper rolls together, or you can tape them all together if that will be easier. Repeat this step with three more toilet paper rolls for the other side of the cabin. Then in between the two stacks that you made stand the last toilet paper roll up. This will create your chimney in the back of the log cabin.

From here you can cut out shapes for a river or pond, if that is something that your toddler would like to have on the land with their log cabin. Take this opportunity to cut out shapes for the windows and door that you will be putting on your cabin. You will also need to cut out a piece of paper that you can fold in half for the roof the cabin and a square plus triangle shape for the front of the cabin. Help your toddler glue the river or pond to the grass and glue on the windows and door to the front of the cabin, the square plus triangle shape, and then glue it to the front of the two toilet paper roll stacks. Tape the roof on to the top of the cabin and have your toddler place in the bit of cotton for the smoke at the top of the chimney.

You can find step by step instructions as well as step by step pictures of this particular toddler craft at EasyToddlerCrafts.com and many other instructions to fun and easy toddler crafts. As you can see, this is great craft to do with your toddler if you want to use up a bunch of those toilet paper rolls that you have been saving for craft time.