If you need the perfect indoor craft to do this winter, grab an empty toilet paper roll and make our DIY Toilet Paper Roll Snowman. It’s cute and warmer than real snow.
For more craft ideas, check out all of our DIY posts.
I always save our toilet paper rolls because I always end up crafting with them. They’re just a really easy medium. If you can call them a medium. And when we have kids come to visit, it’s a lot easier for them to hold a toilet paper roll in their hands and paint it. So knowing that, you have to know that I was going to come up with a Toilet Paper Roll Snowman craft.
I thought about also making a toilet paper roll snowwoman to go with these toilet paper roll snowmen, but I didn’t. It would have been so easy to paint a bow on a snowman hat, though, if you wanted to make a snowlady.
This Toilet Paper Roll Snowman is just one of the snowman crafts that we have one Drugstore Divas.
If you want more easy crafts, check out all of our Snowman Crafts And Snacks Ideas.
DIY Toilet Paper Roll Snowman
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DIY Toilet Paper Roll Snowman Supplies:
How To Make A Toilet Paper Roll Snowman:
Paint the three empty toilet paper rolls completely using the white acrylic paint.
When they’re completely dry, paint a second coat of white paint over the toilet paper rolls. Let it dry completely.
Cut a piece of ribbon, about five inches long, for each toilet paper roll. I prefer a different color ribbon for each one, just to give each toilet paper roll snowman a little personality, but you can do whatever you like.
The exact length of ribbon doesn’t really matter. You’ll trim it at the end. But better if it’s too long than too short.
Put a little bit of glue in the center, halfway down the toilet paper roll. Stick the ribbon there, making sure to leave some hanging over to act as the end of the scarf.
Wrap the ribbon around the toilet paper roll tube and glue it down when you get to the center again. Let it dry.
While that’s drying, cut three larger circles, per snowman, from the black card stock. These will be your coal buttons, so don’t worry if they’re not perfectly round.
If you did want to make them uniform, you can always use a one-hole punch to make them.
Glue three black circles in a vertical row on the bottom half of the toilet paper roll, under the ribbon scarf.
Cut three pieces of orange card stock in the shape of a carrot. Glue them on to the top half of the toilet paper roll, about two-thirds of the way down to make a carrot nose.
It doesn’t matter which way you point the orange nose, but if you’re making multiples of these, I would suggest you vary the direction.
Cut five small square-ish pieces from the black card stock per toilet paper roll.
Glue the squares below the nose to make a coal mouth. I arrange them in a curved shape to make a smile, but you can make any expression you want. It would be a lot of fun if you gave all of the snowman different faces and expressions, although I made them all the same.
Cut out two white ovals per toilet paper roll and glue them down to the black card stock, leaving room between them.
Cut them out, making sure you leave some black as an outline around the white.
Glue them above the nose to be the eyes of the snowman’s face.
Dab a very small dot of black paint on to them for the pupils. Alternatively, you could use a thin black marker to make the dot.
Just a quick note. Whatever way your nose points, that’s the direction you want the pupils to point as well.
If you don’t want to make eyes out of paper, you could just glue googly eyes onto the snowman instead.
Paint a little black, about a quarter inch wide, around the top of the toilet paper roll snowman (now that he has a face, we can start calling him a snowman). That’s going to be the top of the hat the snowman will wear.
Don’t worry about going all the way around the top of the roll. I only painted the front and sides, not the back, since that’s all you can see.
And don’t worry about the line being perfectly straight either because you’re going to cover it.
Let the black paint dry completely.
Cut a long, thin strip of black card stock. Don’t worry if it’s too long. You’ll trim it in a minute.
Put a dab of glue in the middle of the black line you just painted. Affix the black strip of card stock there. Voila. You have a top hat.
When everything is completely dry, you can trim the brim of the hat and the ends of the scarf if you think they’re too long.
Variations:
If you wanted to vary your cute little snowmen, you could give them different headwear rather than just a painted cap. We have a couple easy alternatives for you below.
Earmuffs
Cut pipe cleaners just long enough to fit over the top of the toilet paper roll (a 1.5- to 2-inch piece of pipe cleaner should work). Glue it down using a hot glue gun. Glue pom poms down on each side at the end of the pipe cleaner. Let it dry.
Knit cap
Follow our tutorial for DIY Mini Winter Hats to make a cute hat out of yarn.
Top hat
A Bride On A Budget has an easy tutorial to make DIY Mini Top Hats out of card board tubes.
DIY Toilet Paper Roll Snowman: Frequently Asked Questions
If you don’t go through a lot of rolls of toilet paper, you have a couple options. You can either save your paper towel rolls and cut them into three pieces to use for crafting. You could also purchase craft rolls online. Those are cardboard tubes that the size of toilet paper tube.
If you’re feel like your snowmen need arms, you can easily make stick arms. Just grab really thin twigs from the backyard. Anything heavy might topple the little guys over.
Carefully poke a hole in the side of the snowman. Stick the sticks into those holes.
More Toilet Paper Roll Craft Ideas:
These snowmen aren’t the only craft we’ve made from upcycled toilet paper rolls. For more ideas, check out our list of 10+ Crafts Using Toilet Paper Rolls.
Some of those are seasonal crafts and some aren’t, so you’ll be able to find the perfect craft for your empty toilet paper rolls, no matter when you want to use them.
DIY Toilet Paper Roll Snowman
If you need the perfect indoor craft to do this winter, grab an empty toilet paper roll and make our DIY Toilet Paper Roll Snowman. It’s cute and warmer than real snow.
Materials
- 3 empty toilet paper rolls
- White acrylic paint
- 3 rolls of 1/4-inch ribbon
- Glue
- Black card stock
- Orange card stock
- Black acrylic paint
- White card stock
Tools
- Paint brush
- Scissors
Instructions
- Paint the three empty toilet paper rolls completely using the white acrylic paint.
- When they’re completely dry, paint a second coat of white paint over the toilet paper rolls. Let it dry completely.
- Cut a piece of ribbon, about five inches long, for each toilet paper roll. Put a little bit of glue in the center, halfway down the toilet paper roll. Stick the ribbon there, making sure to leave some hanging over to act as the end of the scarf. Wrap the ribbon around the toilet paper roll tube and glue it down when you get to the center again. Let it dry.
- While that’s drying, cut three larger circles, per snowman, from the black card stock.
- Glue three black circles in a vertical row on the bottom half of the toilet paper roll, under the ribbon scarf.
- Cut three pieces of orange card stock in the shape of a carrot. Glue them on to the top half of the toilet paper roll, about two-thirds of the way down to make a carrot nose.
- Cut five small square-ish pieces from the black card stock per toilet paper roll.
- Glue the squares below the nose to make a coal mouth.
- Cut out two white ovals per toilet paper roll and glue them down to the black card stock, leaving room between them. Cut them out, making sure you leave some black as an outline around the white.
- Glue them above the nose to be the eyes of the snowman’s face.
- Dab a very small dot of black paint on to them for the pupils.
- Paint a little black, about a quarter inch wide, around the top of the toilet paper roll snowman. Let the black paint dry completely.
- Cut a long, thin strip of black card stock.
- Put a dab of glue in the middle of the black line you just painted. Affix the black strip of card stock there.
Notes
When everything is completely dry, you can trim the brim of the hat and the ends of the scarf if you think they’re too long.
Have you made this DIY Toilet Paper Roll Snowman craft? Let us know how it went in the comments.