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Can you believe it is December already? That means only 4 weeks until Christmas!!! Well, 23 days to be exact, whoa momma!
With holiday parties and cookie exchanges coming up on the calendar, the last thing I want is to be stuck in my bathrooms always having to change the dang toilet paper! Hello, I have more important things to do like bake up some yummy goodies, set a festive table, and actually enjoy my holiday parties this year. Thank goodness for the Cottonelle Triple Roll pack I found at Target, triple the toilet paper on one roll means less trips to restock the bathroom for me!
And when you do finally get an empty roll, how about a fun holiday idea to make having to change that roll a little bit easier?
I saved our leftover toilet paper tubes and created a super fun Advent Calendar for my littles! It was so easy to do and the best part is that you already have the toilet paper rolls so that project material is free! This time of year you can even get scrapbook paper at most craft stores for 6 sheets for a dollar so this is one inexpensive project AND a whole month of fun for the kiddos!
Toilet Paper Tube Advent Calendar
25 toilet paper tubes
a variety of scrapbook paper
glue stick
scissors
twine
number stamps and ink or number stickers (1-25)
glue dots
white foam board
old picture frame
The first thing you need to do is cut your scrapbook paper to size, I cut mine 4.25 x 6.75 inches which gives you a bit of overlap for the edges when you wrap.
Then just glue the paper around each tube.
Once it is dry, mine seriously took like 30 seconds to dry, you just push the ends in slightly to form a pillow box…easy peasy!
But don’t forget, before you close up you newly made pillow box you will want to add your advent calendar gift! This can be anything small like a toy, a piece of candy or gum, or even a piece of paper with an experience for the day like these here. For this advent calendar I decided to put little figurines inside that, in the end, would create a wintery Christmas scene.
This is what the finished product of this Advent calendar will look like!
Each day there will be a little something to set up…a sled, a wrapped package, maybe even a few letters 🙂
A deer, or two, or three…or a snowman.
Even a teddy bear!
Once the tubes were filled and closed, I wrapped each in some twine and hung a little number stamped circular tag to each for each day in December leading up to Christmas.
I had an old frame I found this summer at a garage sale for $1 that fit a piece of white foam board perfectly and I just used glue dots to place the tubes onto the board. They are pretty lightweight so it only took two glue dots per filled toilet paper tube to hang.
And there you have it! An easy, inexpensive, and really pretty Advent Calendar using toilet paper tubes!!!
If you want to make this fun project or maybe you just need to stock up on some toilet paper for all your holiday parties, CLICK HERE for a “Buy Cottonelle Triple Roll 12 pack or larger and get a FREE box of Kleenex” coupon while supplies last and head over to Target to redeem this great deal!
XOXO,
I love this idea! I’ve pinned it for next year!
Hey!
I love this idea, I’m buying the bits I need to make it for my boyfriend this Christmas!
How big was your white foam board btw?
Thanks!
Courteney
I believe it was a 2×3 foot board…the standard size you find them!
Love this!! Where did you get the little figurines that you used?! Thnx!!
I found them at Michaels!