December is Almost Here! Make This Easy, Recycled Tube Advent Calendar Wreath

December is Almost Here! Make This Easy, Recycled Tube Advent Calendar Wreath

It's almost December! Time to set up an advent calendar! ⁠Save a few toilet paper, paper towels, or shipping tubes to create this advent calendar wreath. Fill it with small presents like candies or little toys or little notecards describing “activity” gifts like: “movie night!”, “hot chocolate with candy cane stirrers!” or “evening drive to see holiday lights!”.⁠ As presents are removed you can fill the holes with a small ornament, toy, or piece of candy.⁠

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A Fun Use-What-You-Have Craft: Cardboard Tube Sea Creatures!

A Fun Use-What-You-Have Craft: Cardboard Tube Sea Creatures!

If you’ve visited this blog before, you may know that my one of my favorite materials is recycled toilet paper and paper towel cardboard tubes. Never throw them away! You can make letters, holiday decorations like these, these, and these, pretend ice cream cones, annnnnd these sea creatures! They’re fun to make and can be strung together into a mobile for a cute room decoration.

Grownups can help by cutting the slits (which require a craft knife). Using pinking shears or zig zag paper edgers adds spikiness to the fish fins and is a quick way to add a mouthful of teeth to the shark!

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