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Completed flower paintings made from frayed toilet paper rolls and paint.
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Easy Toilet Paper Roll Flower Painting

Easy Toilet Paper Roll Flower Painting makes a colorful and whimsical project that all ages enjoy. Use it for cards or pictures in your home. 
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Paint Craft
Cuisine: Craft
Keyword: Art & Craft Project, family fun activity, kids craft, painting flowers with toilet paper rolls, toilet paper roll dandelion painting, toilet paper roll fireworks painting, toilet paper roll flower painting
Servings: 1 Painting
Author: Shelly
Cost: $1

Equipment

  • Paint brush and/or cotton swabs
  • Scissors

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Use a scissors to cut up the toilet paper tube about an inch. You will make these cuts all around the tube- so the edge is fringed when you are done. You need one for each color paint.
  • You will need a paper plate for each color of paint. Squirt about a half-dollar sized amount of paint on the center of the plate. Acrylic craft paints work well for this project.
  • Pick up a toilet paper tube and use the un-fringed end as your “handle”. Dip the fringed end of the tube down into the paint. The tube is your “paint brush” so you will need to kind of spread the paint around on the plate to get it all over the fringe.
    Then press the paint covered fringe down onto the paper where you want your “flower”. The kids pulled it up and if they wanted more “petals” they turned the tube slightly and pressed it down onto the paper again in the same place.
    Repeat with each color of paint making a spray of flowers over the paper. 
    Use one color per flower or add a second color on top!
  • A darker red-purple was the lucky color chosen to be the flower centers. 
    The grands used a paint brush for this and made a couple this way.
    They also tried using the paint brush and making dots of yellow in the center of a couple other flowers. 
    One grand stopped here…and the other grand decided to paint all the centers purple and then add dots of yellow over the top. I didn’t think of it until later, but a cotton swab would work well to make dots of color.
  • When we were done with the Easy Toilet Paper Roll Flower Painting, the grands wanted me to keep them and use them for another project. So I cut them into cards that I’ll send to those grands in the mail in a couple months. Fun, huh??
    Of course they would be cute on a bulletin board, the refrigerator, or in a frame!

Video

Notes

When fringing the TP tube: It is good if the cuts are pretty close together as this makes a more interesting pattern. The older grands were able to do this more easily than the younger ones. You may need to help with this step for littles.
You can use red, white, and blue paint and dark paper and make this into fireworks.
Or- use white paint on blue paper and it is a dandelion! Just add a stem and a couple bits of white fluff floating away!