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Your kids will have a Holly Jolly Christmas making this Santa Toilet Paper Roll Craft. Making a Santa craft is easy with this Christmas craft using recycled items and basic craft supplies. This toilet paper roll Santa craft is perfect for kids of all ages and is budget-friendly. Make this easy Santa craft at home or in the classroom.

This santa craft is made of a toilet paper tube painted red, with a black felt black with gold felt belt buckle glued on. The white beard, red nose, and googly eyes are glued on a tan painted toilet paper toll as is the white and red santa hat. — Look how cute this Santa craft is! I love it. He looks so jolly!

Easy Santa Paper Craft for Kids

This simple cardboard roll Santa craft is perfect when it’s too cold outside to play. Kids of all ages can make this Santa craft:

Older kids can follow the step by step instructions.
For younger kids, you may want to pre-cut some of the more complicated shapes so they are just assembling and gluing the Santa craft.

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Supplies Needed to Make A Santa Craft Using Toilet Paper Rolls

This santa toilet paper roll craft is my favorite with his black felt belt, and white felt beard, and felt santa hat. Plus he has googly eyes! — This Santa Clause craft is great for kids of all ages, and it has googly eyes. I love googly eyes!

Santa Toilet Paper Roll Craft Tutorial Video

Directions for Craft Roll Santa Craft

Step 1

Paint the toilet paper roll with red paint. You may need to do a couple of coats. Set aside to dry.

Step 2

While the toilet paper roll dries, cut a circle roughly the size of a 50 cent piece out of the tan foam paper. This will be used for Santa face.

Step 3

Now cut out a beard out of the white felt paper.

Step 4

Assemble Santa’s face by using glue to attach white felt beard, red pom pom for the nose, and two googly eyes.

Step 5

While the face dries, cut out a triangle shape from the red felt paper for his hat.

Step 6

Once you have the triangle cut out, cut out a ball and a strip with rounded puffy edges from the white felt paper. These with be the trim and ball of Santa’s hat. Now glue the whit hat pieces to the red triangle.

Related: Check out this other simple Santa craft!

This red toilet paper roll makes the perfect body and face for santa. You just have to add a white felt beard, red felt nose and hat, googly eyes, and a black felt belt and it will look like the real santa...almost. — I love toilet tissue roll Christmas crafts because it uses recycled items like toilet paper rolls.

Step 7

Now glue the hat to the top of Santa’s face then glue the entire face and hat to the top of the red toilet paper roll.

Step 8

The last thing we need to do is make Santa’s belt. Cut a thin strip from the back foam paper. Make sure it is long enough to wrap around the toilet paper roll.

Step 9

Now cut a small square out of the yellow foam paper for the belt buckle. Be sure to cut a smaller square out of the middle belt buckle piece so that you just have a yellow square border.

Step 10

Finally, glue the black strip around the toilet paper roll on the lower part of the roll underneath Santa’s face.

Step 11

Then glue the belt buckle onto the black part right in the middle.

The red paper roll santa with a black felt belt, white felt beard, santa had, red nose, and googly eyes is standing next to a nice sign. — Think the nice sign is a good touch to this Santa craft.

Step 12

Let glue dry and then you’re all done.

You now have your very own Santa Paper Roll!

Our Experience With This Toilet Paper Roll Christmas Crafts

These Christmas toilet paper roll crafts are perfect for the holiday season that can double as the Christmas decorations. Plus, it’s a great way to use up the empty toilet paper rolls in a great way. It’s a great feeling to be able to recycle a cardboard tube. And who doesn’t like Santa Claus.

My kids loved these easy Christmas crafts. We watched movies, opened out advent calendar, and made these toilet paper tubes Santa. Both my younger children and older children loved these. And what’s neat, you could also turn this into an easy diy Christmas ornaments. All you have to do is add a hook to the hat and you have a Christmas tree ornament.

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Santa Toilet Paper Roll Craft

Your kids will have a Holly Jolly Christmas making this Santa Toilet Paper Roll Craft. It is easy to make and you likely have everything you need at home!

Prep Time 5 minutes

Active Time 10 minutes

Additional Time 10 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Difficulty easy

Estimated Cost $5

Materials

Toilet paper roll
Red paint
Tan foam paper
Black foam paper
Yellow foam paper
Red felt paper
White felt paper
Red Pom Pom
Two googly eyes
Glue
Scissors
Paint brush

Instructions

Paint the toilet paper roll with red paint. You may need to do a couple of coats. Set aside to dry.
While the toilet paper roll dries, cut a circle roughly the size of a 50 cent piece out of the tan foam paper. This will be used for Santa face.
Now cut out a beard out of the white felt paper.
Assemble Santa’s face by using glue to attach white felt beard, red pom pom for the nose, and two googly eyes. While the face dries, cut out a triangle shape from the red felt paper for his hat.
Once you have the triangle cut out, cut out a ball and a strip with rounded puffy edges from the white felt paper. These with be the trim and ball of Santa’s hat. Now glue the whit hat pieces to the red triangle.
Now glue the hat to the top of Santa’s face then glue the entire face and hat to the top of the red toilet paper roll.
The last thing we need to do is make Santa’s belt. Cut a thin strip from the back foam paper. Make sure it is long enough to wrap around the toilet paper roll. Now cut a small square out of the yellow foam paper for the belt buckle. Be sure to cut a smaller square out of the middle belt buckle piece so that you just have a yellow square border.
Finally, glue the black strip around the toilet paper roll on the lower part of the roll underneath Santa’s face. Then glue the belt buckle onto the black part right in the middle. Let glue dry and then you’re all done.
You now have your very own Santa Paper Roll!

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