Halloween Fun: Toilet Paper Roll Pumpkin Craft

This is what my kitchen table looked like

at breakfast time on Wednesday.

(the kitchen table photo... not the toilet photo!)

Yes, that cup of coffee was my breakfast.

I was cutting fabric squares

and glue-gunning brown paper into little tubes

to prepare for a visit to my youngest daughter's

preschool classroom.

I started my visit by telling them

this adorable Halloween Paper Story

from (one of my favorites!) Itty Bitty Love blog.

(the kids and teachers loved it!)

Then we made

toilet paper pumpkins!

It is such a simple craft/activity with a

100% success rate

for this group of 2.5 year olds!

Original instructions can be found on the Family Fun website.

To make your own, you'll need:

fabric (approx. 22" x 18"),

toilet paper (can you say dollar store?),

brown paper for stems

(or a stick, or a cinnamon stick),

and

a green pipe cleaner for a vine.

You'll get 4 pumpkins out of 1 yard of fabric

(you'll cut the fabric into fourths)

Set the TP roll in the center of your fabric square,

tuck and stuff the fabric into the tube.

Add a rolled paper stem,

and bend a pipe cleaner as the vine.

Viola!

Easy (and practical) craft.

I'll be making them again this week

with the Frog Princess' first grade class

at their Fall Harvest party.