| Supplies
Needed:
7 Toilet
Paper Rolls - Cereal Box - Glue
or Tape - A Bit of Cotton (optional) - Green, Black and Blue
Construction Paper - or Plain Paper and Crayons |
| This
can be a fun everyday craft or a fun Presidents Day. Encourage
your kids to build a log cabin and learn about President Lincoln.
You can use a cereal box as your base if you do not have any
empty food boxes that are smaller. The bigger the box the
more "land" your cabin will be on, where you can
add large rocks, a pond and anything you like. You can use
green construction paper for the grass, blue for the pond
and black for the rocks on the land. |
| Step
1: Take your construction paper and cut strips the
width and length of the sides of the cereal box. A standard
piece of construction paper fits nicely over a standard cereal
box but if you need to you can trim a piece of the green construction
paper so that it fits over the front of the cereal box. Cut
out some rock like shapes of the black construction paper and
cut out a pond shape of the blue paper. If you don't have colored
construction paper you can have your toddler color in the grass,
rocks and pond on plain white paper with crayons. |
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| Step
2: Help your toddler glue the green paper around the
edges of the box and on the front of the box. Squirt the glue
yourself if it is too messy for your toddler to do it and have
them place the paper over it, and quickly adjust it if you need
to. Have them glue the "pond" on the box and the "rocks",
just make sure that they leave enough room to build the log
cabin. If you don't have glue, or don't want to mess with it
you can use double sided sticky tape or standard tape. |
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Step
3: Put a few dabs of glue on the green paper where
you want the first "log," the toilet paper roll,
and have your toddler place the roll onto the glue. Dab some
glue on the "log" and have your toddler add another
"log" on the first "log," and then one
more. Stand a toilet paper roll upright at the back of the
wall of logs you have just made to make a "chimney".
Build another wall of logs with the upright log between the
two walls. Again if you are not using glue put some double
sided sticky tape in place of the dabs of glue. You can use
standard tape and simply make it like double sided sticky
tape by connecting it so it becomes a circle. |
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| Step
4: Now cut a square plus triangle shape for the sides
of the house and glue it to the side of the cabin. Cut a piece
of construction paper that when folded fits your cabin as a
roof and place it over the triangle portion of the side of the
cabin. Add a bit of cotton to the top of the "chimney"
to create some "smoke." Feel free to add a small triangle
of construction paper over the back part of the roof as well
as windows and a front door to your log cabin. |
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| No matter
if you are building this fun craft for Presidents day or just
any other day it is a great way to utilize numerous toilet paper
rolls. Also, you and your child can have fun customizing the
lawn to include whatever you want. Your child should have fun
deciding what he or she wants their yard to have and you will
have fun finding a creative way to cut that out. |
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