Easy Toilet Roll Craft - Making Bangles and Bracelets for Play Shop Display

After days and days of glorious weather, the sun is having a day off! We've spent lots of time outside enjoying the sunshine and the children playing in the garden so now the weather's changed my daughter needed something to keep her occupied indoors.

When we're outside together she is constantly wanting to play shop or café. Using her imagination to tell me the day's specials, take my order and then run to the playhouse to get everything ready.

As she loves playing shop and also enjoys making things we decided to pass a few hours decorating some toilet roll tubes into bracelets and bangles ready to play jewellery shop.

All we needed was:

2 or 3 toilet roll tubes

1 kitchen roll tube

Some Sharpies, felt tips and/or paint

Glue (we used Modge Podge)

Anything available for decoration, we used buttons, sequins, ribbon, glitter and bits from old greetings cards.

I painted the kitchen roll tube white so the bracelets and bangles would show up better on her display.

Then I cut the toilet rolls, first to open them up and then into different shaped rounds.

We then had fun decorating them in lots of different designs.

Once any glue and paint was dry my daughter could display them on the kitchen roll stand ready to play shop.

This was so cheap and easy, and she had so much fun. And after spending time together doing the making she now gets to use what she's made in a game of jewellery shop.