Toilet Paper Roll Penguin Craft

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Calling all penguin lovers! Here is a fun toilet paper roll penguin craft you can make with kids of all ages. All you’ll need is a carboard tube, construction paper, scissors and some glue!

Toilet paper roll penguin craft
toilet paper roll penguin craft for kids

Toilet Paper Roll Penguin Craft

Did you know that penguins don’t have teeth!?

We learnt this fun fact while working on a unit on Antarctic animals! To end the unit, my daughter’s teachers had the kids make a toilet paper roll craft of their favorite Antarctic animal.

Obviously, she chose to make a couple of cute penguins because they’re just so adorable.

So, today I’m going to share a great craft that you can make if you love penguins too!

This simple screen free activity is a great winter craft idea that young children can make as part of a class project or just for fun at home.

Made with recycled materials, this adorable penguin craft works on children’s fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Supplies

toilet paper roll penguin craft supplies
toilet paper roll craft supplies

All our fun crafts and printable activities require basic craft supplies that you either already have at home or will have an easy time finding at your local craft store or online via Amazon.

Here is what you’ll need to make this simple toilet paper roll penguin craft:

  • penguin template – to make this craft you’ll need to download a copy of our toilet paper roll craft template. To download the pdf file scroll to the very bottom  of this post For more information on how to download see the download section.
  • Printer and white paper
  • Cardboard tube – save your toilet paper tubes or paper towel tubes to make this fun winter craft
  • Construction paper in different colors – you’ll need orange, red and black construction paper
  • Pencil
  • Black marker
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Googly eyes

Instructions

Toilet Paper Roll penguin craft

Step 1: Print a copy of our toilet paper roll penguin template. Cut out the different parts of the penguin’s body. Trace the parts onto the corresponding colored paper.  Trace the penguin’s beak and feet on orange paper, the penguin’s tongue on red paper and the arms on black paper.

toilet paper roll penguin craft

Step 2: Cut out the different parts of the penguins body. If you’re crafting with really small children they may need a little help at this point.

toilet paper roll penguin craft

Step 3: Using a black marker color the toilet paper tube leaving a large white area for the penguin’s belly. 

toilet paper roll penguin craft for kids

Step 4: Using a small dab of glue, stick the feet onto the bottom of the penguin.

toilet paper roll penguin crafts

Step 5: Fold the penguin’s mouth that you cut out of orange construction paper in half and glue the penguin’s tongue inside the beak.

toilet paper roll penguin craft

Step 6: Using a small dab of glue, stick the penguin’s beak to the upper part of the toilet paper tube.

toilet paper roll penguin craft

Step 7: Stick the penguins arms onto each side of the toilet paper roll. 

toilet paper roll penguin craft

Step 8: Using a small dot of glue, stick the googly eyes to the top of the penguin’s body.

toilet paper roll penguin craft

Step 9: Display or play with your cute penguin crafts! 

Download & Print Instructions

To download our free toilet paper roll penguin craft template you’ll need to fill in the download form located at the bottom of this post.

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For best results and an optimal experience, we recommend printing our penguin template on high quality letter size white cardstock paper.

It makes for a better quality crafting experience and is far more durable than a standard sheet of paper.

Please note that all our digital products including printables like these easy ornament crafts are for personal use or classroom use only. All our creations can be used for non-commercial use only. Using any of our creations for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. Please see our terms of use for more detailed information.

Reading Recommendations

We love to read!

Reading is one of our favorite screen free activities. It’s so much fun and a great way to encourage children to learn about the world around them by building on language and critical thinking skills.

We make it a point to pair all our screen free activities with books!

From free printables and games to recycled animal crafts – we do our very best to recommend some fun books to our readers that make screen free play even more engaging.

Here are some of our favorite top penguin books that pair wonderfully with our toilet paper roll penguin craft:

Spike: The Penguin With Rainbow Hair – a heartwarming story of a small penguin who learns to embrace himself for who he is.

All Things Penguins For Kids – a great book for kids who want to know more about these adorable animals.

Penguin Problems – a penguin tells humans what it’s really like to be a cute penguin ; it isn’t always fun and games.

Mr Popper’s Penguins – the classic book that inspired the famous Jim Carrey movie! This is one of our all-time favorite penguin books.

Artsy Fartsy the Farting Penguin – a fun and hilarious book about Arsty Fartsy and his creativity.

Don’t Tickle The Penguin – a cute book for really young children about how little Penguin’s can be noisy.

More Screen Free Winter Activities For Kids

Here are some more screen free activities and fun ideas we’ve created.

All these great crafts, games and free printables pair well with our free printable toilet paper roll penguin craft during the winter season.

Click on the link to be taken to the blog post where you’ll get all the information you need about each screen free activity.

Let’s Stay in Touch

Are you planning to make this toilet paper roll penguin craft? We’d love to see your finished product.

Snap a photo of your cute penguin craft and reach out to us on our Facebook page to show us your finished craft . We love sharing your creations with our readers!

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1 thought on “Toilet Paper Roll Penguin Craft”

  1. Such a cute, easy craft! My kids have been obsessed with penguins ever since we went to the zoo last month, so this will be a fun one to do.

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