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Craft Cutie: Simple Fox Made with a Toilet Paper Tube

Make your own friendly fox from the simplest of “junk” craft supplies: a cardboard toilet paper roll!

You can make quiet a few things from cardboard tubes, and lets face it, TP rolls are always popping up at your house.

cardboard paper fox

This fox is made from a toilet paper tube covered in orange construction paper. Your fox can be any color you like!

supplies to make a cardboard fox: paper, toilet paper roll, scissors, glue
paper fox crafted from orange cardstock and a toilet paper roll

Simple Paper Fox Craft

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

Make this forest fox from a cardboard tube.

Materials

  • Cardboard Tube (toilet paper roll)
  • Construction Paper (orange & white)
  • Googly Eyes
  • Paint pen or marker
  • Hot Glue

Tools

  • Scissors
  • Low Melt Glue tool

Instructions

    Cut orange paper to fit the tube..

    Glue in place.

    Make a heart shape for the face and glue it near the top of the tube.

    Glue the googly eyes to the wide part of the heart

    Use a marker to draw the nose at the tip of the heart

    Cut small paper triangles for the ears -- if you're feeling fancy, make it two color!

    Glue ears to the top INSIDE part of the roll, just above the eyes.

    Cut a tummy shape and tail shapes, and glue them onto your fox.

Notes

With a little patience you can use school glue, but hot glue will set much quicker.

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