I really enjoy crafts that can be for children or adults. It makes it much more fulfilling as an educator and you enjoy helping them make it.
One of these such crafts are snowflakes made out of toilet paper, paper towel or Christmas wrap rolls.
Most North Americans use toilet paper. I have been educated that many cultures choose to use a cloth and water over toilet paper so I can’t say everyone.
I have discovered that certain brands of toilet paper have a white roll instead of the more common brown rolls. Lucky for me, this particular brand is often on sale. I used to collect the white rolls for a summer camp craft; a dalmatian toilet roll craft.
The first step is to use a ruler and measure out your individual rolls.
You will cut each roll into 8 sections. The individual slices will look like this.
Often you will start by gluing three of these pieces, bent in half, together. This gives you the start of your six pointed snowflake. I used hot glue but white glue does work if older children are trying make these.
From there you can choose to add the bent V like I did in this one.
Or add the larger oval like I did with this one.
You can be creative and add as many layers or shapes as you like.
Many of the snowflakes I have seen in pictures have glitter on them. If the toilet rolls are brown, they are painted white and then dipped in a plate of glitter. If your rolls are already white, I suggest you use a cotton swab and apply white glue to the top edges then dip in glitter. I, personally, have a hate hate relationship with glitter.
Another option would be to glue on some buttons or small beads at the junction points.
Perhaps you can make one of these as the second day of creation for my twelve days of Christmas activity on Dec. 30 (the 6th day of Christmas). God created the sky on the second day and that’s where snowflakes come from.
Use toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls or all those empty wrapping paper rolls left over after Christmas to make a beautiful snowflake decoration.