We’re on a bit of a roll with toilet paper tube crafts… corny pun aside, we have been pretty busy with our hoard of cardboard rolls.
And like many of the other recent projects, Mary the fairy was inspired by the tubescapes we made a few months back. One idea often leads to another and I really love that.
She is easy to do, great scissor practice, and can be made from just one tube - that’s wings and head too.
You’ll need:
Toilet paper tube ( or kitchen roll shortened to about 10cm/4in.)
Pencil
Ruler
Scissors
Glue
Sticky tape
Paint
Coloured felt tip pens
Black felt tip or gel pen
Glitter, sequins, stickers (optional)
1. Flatten the tube with your hand and about halfway up, draw a pencil line straight across using a ruler. Draw another line about a cm or so (1/2in.) up from one end.
2. On the other side of the middle line, cut at an angle from the end of the line to the top of the tube, but not quite as far as the corner. Keep the triangle shaped piece for the wings.
3. Cut along both pencil lines from the shorter side, leaving the last cm (1/2in.) uncut, and then fold the middle piece of card over firmly, before cutting along the crease to remove it. Keep this card too, for the head. Squeeze your tube open, and you have the base for your fairy.
4. Make her dress less pointy by trimming the sides.
5. Take the piece of spare card leftover from forming the fairy’s legs, keep it folded and draw a curve on the folded end, for her hair.
6. Cut out and open up. If it looks too big for her body, fold again and trim until you’re happy.
7. Use the card you’ve just cut away to draw a semi-circle shape for the face, using a straight edge of the card (on its side it looks like a capital D). Cut this out but don’t glue to the hair until all the pieces have been painted.
8. Take the spare piece of card from the start of the project, and cut along the crease so you have two triangles. These are going to be your fairy's wings.
9. Paint all the card pieces any colours you want. Make a good flesh shade by mixing a little red with white to make light pink, then a tiny touch of yellow and blue.
10. When the paint is dry, glue the face to the hair.
11. Flatten down your tube and draw shoes with a felt pen and draw on the face.
12. Glue the head to the top of the body, and then use sticky tape to attach it firmly behind. Use the sticky tape to attach the wings to the back of the body too.
Decorate with glitter, sequins or stickers, if you want your fairy to sparkle!
