Crafts for kids Easter Kids crafts Spring Toilet roll crafts

Toilet roll chicks

cardboard roll Easter chicks

I have a quick and easy Easter craft to share with you today. It involves two of my favourite things recycling cardboard toilet roll tubes and Spring time. The weather has been beautiful today so we’ve thrown open the back door and spent some happy hours crafting away, we have lots to share over the next week or two.

How to make toilet roll chicks

To make some sweet little Easter toilet roll chicks you will need: empty cardboard rolls from paper towels or toilet rolls, yellow paint, orange cardboard, glue stick, scissors, sticky tape and a black pen.

Cut the cardboard roll in half and paint liberally with yellow paint (we gave ours two coats).

From the orange cardboard cut a beak, two wings and feet. We also traced around our tube and cut a circle as we wanted to fill our chicks with Easter eggs.

toilet roll chicks

Sticky tape the base in place then glue the beak, wings and feet. Add two little eyes with the black pen.

cardboard roll Easter chicks

Fun little recycled Easter chicks which can be filled with sweet treats or perhaps hidden in the garden as part of an Easter egg hunt!

12 Comments

  • Reply
    Kate Williams
    April 2, 2014 at 8:15 pm

    Argh! These are too cute!!!! Will have to give these a try with my son 🙂 Thanks for linking up with Tuesday Tutorials #pintorials

  • Reply
    Mum of One
    April 3, 2014 at 5:21 pm

    Oh too cute! I love any toilet roll craft but these are perfect for Easter. Thanks so much for sharing with the #pinitparty. Have pinned and shared.

  • Reply
    Lynsey Ward
    April 3, 2014 at 10:48 pm

    Love these, this will be out wet weather activity tomorrow

  • Reply
    Merlinda Little (@pixiedusk)
    April 7, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    This is so easy and nice to do! #PinItParty

  • Reply
    Snotty Noses
    April 7, 2014 at 9:09 pm

    So cute, I’ve pinned you. #Parenting Pin it Party.

  • Reply
    Easter Chick Craft Ideas: Tuesday Tutorials - Crafts on Sea
    April 8, 2014 at 1:02 am

    […] showcase some cute Easter chick craft ideas which we’ll hopefully be trying out soon! These cardboard chicks from The Gingerbread House look adorable and  I love how Damson Lane has used the story of Six Little Chicks to inspire her […]

  • Reply
    8 Adorable Baby Chick Easter Crafts for Kids - Inheriting Our Planet
    April 9, 2014 at 2:00 pm

    […] Toilet Roll Chicks from The Gingerbread House- You KNOW I love a good toilet paper roll craft! Check out this little cutie. […]

  • Reply
    Mel
    April 12, 2014 at 10:10 pm

    These are really cute! We made toilet roll bunnies yesterday with the kids and we will start saving toilet rolls again to make your little chicks! Mel, over from Mumsnet’s Easter craft round-up (if you are curious, my entry is ‘Easter Cards’)

  • Reply
    Easter ideas for toddlers - My Bored Toddler
    February 22, 2016 at 4:09 am

    […] Cardboard Roll Chicks from The Gingerbread House […]

  • Reply
    Bunnies and Chicks-Crafts, Actvities and Recipes
    March 19, 2017 at 10:43 pm

    […] a great way to repurpose cardboard tubes!  These Cardboard Roll Chicks by The Gingerbread House are […]

  • Reply
    15+ Toilet Paper Roll Crafts - the-gingerbread-house.co.uk
    March 21, 2020 at 10:56 pm

    […] box for their craft materials. One thing we always seem to have plenty of is toilet paper roll. The cardboard inner makes the perfect craft material and we’ve featured plenty of crafts us… to toilet roll angels. We’ve also used toilet roll tubes to paint with, and even grow […]

  • Reply
    31 Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for Kids
    June 3, 2020 at 1:28 pm

    […] Toilet Paper Roll Chicks […]

  • Leave a Reply