You can do so much with what’s left from the toilet paper roll! Well, you can use the carton cylinder left from the paper for your crafts. Our elementary school teachers are always sending requests to bring those empty rolls to school for their creative projects.
We decided to share with you one of the most affordable, yet sophisticated enough craft that you can proudly display and share and even gift. Depending on the occasion, you can find many uses for this easy and colorful project. And your ideas can expand the spectrum of what can be done with it.
Take it away into your craft room or kitchen table and get kids crafting alongside with you!
Toilet Paper Roll Painted Chickadees Are Awaiting You!
All you need are a few toilet paper rolls – or what’s left of the full toilet paper roll – a pencil, paints, a template that is downloadable from this post and your imagination! Take a look how easily it is done!
Easy-Peasy Steps for Your Chickadees Flock
Use the TEMPLATE for a Chickadee to Trace on a Toilet Paper Roll
Have Your Kids Trace, Cut & Color the Birds
Paint Your Own Colors if You Wish for Each Chickadee
The Results Are Fun and Cute and Stunning!
Here’s a Stand – Sit Alone – Chickadee!
Download the Chickadees TEMPLATE Right Here!
Ingredients
- 1 or more TP rolls
- 1 sheet of tracing paper
- The TP Roll Chickadee Template provided (Insert link)
- Pencil and eraser
- A pair of scissors
- Acrylic paints in several colors. I used white, green, black, and pale orange, pale pink and pale yellow.
- 2 small paint brushes. One of these should have a fine tip for outlining.
- A paint tray. Use an old plate if you don’t have a tray.
- A painting surface. I used an old cereal box.
Instructions
- STEP 1: Print out the TP Roll Chickadee Template. (Insert link here). Trace a chickadee on each bottom corner of the tracing paper. Line up the dotted lines under the feet and at the tail with the corner of the tracing paper.
- STEP 2: To turn my tracing paper into transfer paper, I simply use a soft pencil and scribble on the back of my tracing.
- STEP 3: Grab a TP roll. Smoosh it down flat.
- STEP 4: Place your tracing paper onto your flattened TP roll. Line up the bottom of the bird’s feet, tail and belly with the edges of the TP roll. Using a sharpened pencil, trace your bird.
- STEP 5: Turn your TP roll upside down and trace a second bird on the opposite end of the TP roll. Bonus: Each TP roll makes two birds! Now flip the TP roll over and trace birds on the other side too ensuring that beaks, tails and bellies line up.
- STEP 6: Keeping the TP roll flat and cutting through both layers, cut along the top edge of each chickadee. Now cut away the small half circle under each beak. Two chickadees, baby!
- STEP 7: It’s time to paint your birdies! Starting with the lighter colors, I painted the area under the birds light green mixed with yellow to vaguely mimic shrubbery. And then I painted the wings in some other light color: pale orange, pale yellow, or pale pink.
- STEP 8: Now for the finishing touches! Get out your fine tipped paint brush and outline your chickadees in black. On top of that, you’ll want to paint the crown (the top of the head), throat, and feet in black. A small dot of white in the eye makes it stand out nicely.
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37 thoughts on “Toilet Paper Roll Painted Chickadees CRAFT”
This is cute. The oldest loves doing crafts more than anything. I think I’m going to share this with her and save the toilet paper rolls so we can craft. Thanks – yolonda
I wish I was this creative! If I were I would make this, but with BUTTERFLIES of course! Those Chickadees are super cute and so spring! 🙂
Those are super cute! What a fun craft to do with things you already have!
These are so cute and definitely a fun way to keep the little ones busy. Thanks for sharing this.
Giggle….this is too darn cute! I bet this would make a fun group craft for young and old. What a great way to feature some of your favorite washi tape that we all are collecting too?
What a cute craft to pass the day away. I love the little chickadee design. Sharing this with my friend who always looks for things to do with her kids.
This is such an absolutely adorable Spring craft. My boys are all about watching birds go into and out of their bird houses so this would be right up their alley.
Creative and Unique Toilet paper roll crafts – LOVE this list! So many great ideas to use with toddler, preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade kids.
How cute and crafty. Very economical and fun to do too. Whenever I hear chickadees, I remember a childhood song I used to sing. What a fun!
What a cute craft! I don’t think I have ever seen anything like this! I love that you used an item that was otherwise going to waste!
These look so cool. I can not wait to try making these on the weekend with the kids. I am sure it will be a hit.
Chickadees are such a cute bird. This would be such a fun craft for kids to make!
Cute idea and one my kids would love for sure! The finished products could be used as homemade napkin holders for weekend brunch too.
These are the cutest little chickadees. I’ve seen a lot of toilet paper crafts but none of them are as fancy as these. Really good work.
Oh these are so cute, what an absolutely fun way to do some crafting 🙂
Ha! how great is this craft project?! I love it! it would be great for a decoration for a party, I’ll keep this in mind for the near future. I know my kids would love to do this and crack up about it coming from the TP roll : )
Aww, this craft is super cute! It would be perfect to get little kids to sit still for an hour or two.
That’s a great craft. You have quite an artistic eye. The last time I tried to make something like this, it ended up in the recycling. My kids didn’t even mind. LOL
This was made from toilet paper rolls? Wow this is beyond creative this is amazing!
This is a super cute craft!! I need to make these with my nieces and nephews soon!!
We have a momma bird that built a nest on our porch. The boys have been so fascinated with it! I bet they would love to make these.
Wow! That is such a very creative and brilliant idea. They are so adorable! I love ’em and I bet kids would love ’em too.
I am honestly jealous of how creative these are. I’ve always wanted to do something creative with my leftovers rolls!
These are really adorable! What a great idea. The kids would love to make these.
Omg how cute!!! Totally a crafty project my daughter would love!!! We will be making these!!!
These are so adorable. They would have been perfect to make for the table decorations during Easter lunch.
Where were all these cool crafts when I was young? I just love that fun take on the toilet paper roll crafts!
This is such a cute idea! I love how they came out, and will be saving our TP tubes from now on. Thanks for the inspiration!!
Those are so cute. What a great craft idea. I love making crafts from items you can recycle too.
Awww!! These are so cute!! Perfect way to use up all the toilet paper rolls!
What a fun craft. My granddaughters will enjoy making these Chickadees.
Wow these are so pretty and very creative. I will be saving the toilet paper roll from now on.
Wow! They’re all cute. Can’t wait to try it!
Great! They’re all cute. Thank you for sharing your creative art here. Can’t wait to try this!
I am honestly surprised at how beautiful these turned out! They are quite lovely! Thank you for sharing the idea!
It is so good to recycle as much as possible.
They’re REALLY cute! My in-laws are birdies and they taught us how to to tell the call of the Chickadee. We get a lot of them in our part of the world.
Those are so cute! You did an amazing job on these. I can’t wait to try it, too!