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Toilet-Paper Rolls, Paper-Towel Rolls and Wrapping Paper Rolls... Waste, Recycle or Reuse?

Before you throw away a paper roll, do you consider what it can be used for? Never thought of that? Or you already reuse them? Although our society urges people not to throw out but recycle and reuse as many common household items as possible, we still produce too much trash!

I have listed a great deal of tips and links for different ways paper rolls can be reused in household, for gardening, kids crafts, etc. Hope you will find some new ways you can save some money and be nature friendly!

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Household Tips

Extend Vacuum Cleaner Reach 

Clever use of empty wrapping paper tube!

Can't reach that cobweb on the ceiling with your regular vacuum cleaner attachment? Try using a long, empty wrapping paper tube to extend the reach. You can even crush the end of the paper tube to create a crevice tool. Use duct tape to make the connection airtight.

Keep Electrical Cords Tangle-Free 

Use toilet paper tubes to stop tripping on cords lying around the house!

Keep computer and appliance cords tangle-free. Fanfold the cord and pass it through a toilet paper tube before plugging in. You can also use the tubes to store extension cords when they're not in use. Paper towel tubes will also work. Just cut them in half before using them to hold the cords.

 

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Use As Kindling And Logs 

Fire up those paper tubes!

Turn toilet paper and paper towel tubes into kindling and logs for your fireplace. For fire starter, use scissors to cut the cardboard into 1/8-inch (3-millimeter) strips. Keep the strips in a bin near the fireplace so they'll be handy to use next time you make a fire. To make logs, tape over one end of the tube and pack shredded newspaper inside. Then tape the other end. The tighter you pack the newspaper, the longer your log will burn.

Make Boot Trees 

Simple trick with cardboard mailing tubes

To keep the tops of long, flexible boots from flopping over and developing ugly creases in the closet, insert cardboard mailing tubes into them to help them hold their shape.

Protect Important Documents 

Keep documents tidy with paper towel tubes!

Before storing diplomas, marriage certificates, and other important documents in your cedar chest, roll them tightly and insert them in paper towel tubes. This prevents creases and keeps the documents clean and dry.

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Store Knitting Needles 

Simple use for cardboard tube

To keep your knitting needles from bending and breaking, try this: Use a long cardboard tube from kitchen foil or plastic wrap. Cover one end with cellophane tape. Pinch the other end closed and secure it tightly with tape. Slide the needles in through the tape on the taped end. The tape will hold them in place for secure, organized storage.

Store String 

Strings wrapped around toilet paper tube

Nothing is more useless and frustrating than tangled string. To keep your string ready to use, cut a notch into each end of a toilet paper tube. Secure one end of the string in one notch, wrap the string tightly around the tube, and then secure the other end in the other notch.

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Use Empty Toilet Paper Rolls as Hair Rollers 

This actualy works!

You can actually use empty toilet paper rolls to roll your hair. If you have shoulder length or longer hair, empty toilet paper rolls work perfectly. Use toilet paper rolls to roll you dry hair. You can use bobbie pins, or clips to hold in place. Leave it up for about an hour. When you unroll it, you'll have fuller, smoother, flowing hair, with soft curls at the bottom.

Organizing Hair Bands 

Simple organizing tip with used paper roll

Use a cardboard toilet paper tube to organize elastic hair bands
It never fails. You buy a bunch of elastic hair bands and they somehow disappear. Instead of losing them and then finding them all over the place, wrap them around a cardboard toilet paper tube. They will stay in one place and won't get stretched out.

Store Fabric Scraps 

Simple storage solution with cardboard tube

Roll up leftover fabric scraps tightly and insert them inside a cardboard tube from your bathroom or kitchen. For easy identification, tape or staple a sample of the fabric to the outside of the tube.

Organize Underwear 

Toilet paper rolls help from damage

Use a cardboard toilet paper tube to organize underwear when traveling in a car, bus, boat or train.
Instead of folding your underwear and having it get lost inside your luggage, put it inside a cardboard toilet paper tube. Obviously you'll need more then one tube to do this, but it works. The underwear stays in one place and if you have to open your luggage in front of other people, your underwear won't be exposed for the world to see.

Organize Socks and Pantyhose 

Put baby socks into toilet paper tubes! Two pairs in each!

Each empty toilet roll core can hold a pair of pantyhose. Fold pantyhose to about palm-sized, and stuff it into the core. Each pantyhose should fit nicely into one core, without much of it dangling out. And when you travel, just pop as many filled cores as needed in the luggage, and don't worry about tearing the pantyhoses accidentally!

Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose 

And Hundreds of Offbeat Uses for Brand-Name Products

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Keep linens crease-free 

Use long wrapping paper tubes!

Wrap tablecloths and napkins around cardboard tubes after laundering to avoid the creases they would get if they were folded. Use long tubes for tablecloths and paper towel or toilet paper tubes for napkins. To guard against stains, cover the tubes with plastic wrap first.

Keep pants crease-free 

Put paper towel tube on the rack

You go to your closet for that good pair of pants you haven't worn in a while, only to find an ugly crease at the fold site from the hanger rack. It won't happen again if you cut a paper towel tube lengthwise, fold it in half horizontally, and place it over the rack before you hang up your pants. Before hanging pants, tape the sides of the cardboard together at the bottom to keep it from slipping.

Keep Christmas lights tidy 

Wrap them around cardboard tube!

Spending more time untangling your Christmas lights than it takes to put them up? Make yuletide prep easier by wrapping your lights around a cardboard tube. Secure them with masking tape. Put small strands of lights or garlands inside cardboard tubes, and seal the ends of the tubes with masking tape.

Protect fluorescent lights 

Use wrapping paper tubes for this!

Keep fluorescent light tubes from breaking before you use them. They will fit neatly into long cardboard tubes sealed with tape at one end.

 

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Organize Garbage Bags 

Easy storage solution for garbadge bags!

Use a cardboard toilet paper tube to organize extra garbage bags by a garbage can.
Many people will keep a spare garbage bag somewhere near their bathroom garbage can or some other small garbage can so when the bag in the can is full it can immediately be replaced. Instead of having the bag just lying there on the floor, stuff it inside the cardboard toilet paper tube. Then take the tube and tape it to the back of the garbage can where it won't be visible.

Store Wax Candle Tapers 

Protect them inside paper tubes

Bouncing around in a drawer often left candles broken, chipped, and soiled. Instead, wrap your wax candle tapers in tissue paper. Then slide them into a recycled toilet paper or a paper towel cardboard tube. Now your tapers will be protected in between uses.

Gardening Tips

Start seedlings 

Save some money - use paper rolls!

Don't go to the garden supply store to buy biodegradable starting pots for seedlings. Just use the cardboard tubes from paper towels and toilet paper. Use scissors to cut each toilet paper tube into two pots, or each paper towel tube into four. Fill a tray with the cut cylinders packed against each other so they won't tip when you water the seedlings. This will also prevent them from drying out too quickly. Now fill each pot with seed-starting mix, gently pack it down, and sow your seeds. When you plant the seedlings, make sure to break down the side of the roll and make sure all the cardboard is completely buried. Step-by-step Guide to use paper rolls for seedlings

Make a plant guard 

Protect young tree with cardboard mailing tube

It's easy to accidentally scar the trunk of a young tree when you are whacking weeds around it. To avoid doing this, cut a cardboard mailing tube in half lengthwise and tie the two halves around the trunk while you work around the tree. Then slip it off and use it on another tree.

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Make a fly and pest strip 

Make a homemade pest strip from paper roll tube

Get rid of pesky flies and mosquitoes with a homemade pest strip. Just cover an empty paper towel or toilet paper roll with transparent tape, sticky side out, and hang where needed.

Make a sheath 

Protect yourself from cutting with paper rolls

Flatten a paper towel tube, duct tape one end shut, and you have a perfect sheath for a picnic/camp knife. Use toilet paper rolls for smaller cutlery.

1000 Gardening Questions and Answers 

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Hundreds of line drawings illustrate the book, providing botanical identification and demonstrating how-to gardening techniques. In addition, sidebars throughout supply supplemental information--"Dos and Don'ts of Deadheading," "Annuals that Beat the Heat," "To Prune or Not to Prune: The Clematis Question," "Air Layering," "Windowsill Bonsai"--plus quirky facts, trivia, lore, and myth. It's big, it's got heft, it's filled to the brim with information. And it's so lively, it reads like a novel--and belongs on every gardener's potting bench and bedside table.

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Kiddy Craft Tips

Make a kazoo 

With paper towel tube

Got a bunch of bored kids driving you crazy on a rainy day? Cut three small holes in the middle of a paper towel tube. Then cover one end of the tube with wax paper secured with a strong rubber band. Now hum into the other end, while using your fingers to plug one, two, or all three holes to vary the pitch. Make one for each kid. They may still drive you crazy, but they'll have a ball doing it!

 

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Instant megaphone 

Simple yet effective reusing tip!

Don't shout yourself hoarse when you're calling outside for a child or pet to come home right now. Give your vocal cords a rest by using a wide cardboard tube as a megaphone to amplify your voice.

Paper Tube Maracas 

Take an empty paper towel or toilet paper tube. Cover one end with a small square of construction paper and fasten the square to the tube with a rubber band. Then fill the tube with dried beans or uncooked rice -- you can experiment with different amounts and with different materials (or combinations of materials) to create different sounds. Once you've placed the desired amount of beans or rice into the tube, cover the open end with a small square of construction paper and fasten it to the tube with a rubber band, creating a maraca. Then, wrap the entire tube with construction paper or white drawing paper, gluing it to the tube so that it's secure. You can then let your child decorate the paper with paint or markers so that it's fun and colorful. Make a whole bunch so that you can have a percussion section for your kitchen band!

Look What You Can Make With Tubes 

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Cardboard tubes are transformed into a vast array of toys, games, decorations and gifts.

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Make a hamster toy 

Pets love playing with paper rolls!

Place a couple of paper towel or toilet paper tubes in the hamster (or gerbil) cage. The little critters will love running and walking through them, and they like chewing on the cardboard too. When the tubes start looking ragged, just replace them with fresh ones.

Preserve kids' artwork 

Simply roll it and put inside paper tube!

You want to save some of your kids' precious artwork for posterity (or you don't want it to clutter up the house). Simply roll up the artwork and place it inside a paper towel tube. Label the outside with the child's name and date. The tubes are easy to store, and you can safely preserve the work of your budding young artists.

Make Halloween Treats! 

Halloween reuse idea for toilet paper rolls

"Treat tubes" make a fun and DIY alternative to store bought treat sacks and can be used at Halloween parties or given to trick-or-treaters. They're just big enough to fit things like fruit strips, candies, little toys, and mini Fair Trade chocolates. Plus, it's a great way to use up all those toilet paper tubes! Click on image to get tutorial and more ideas!

Build a toy log cabin 

Different paper rolls make this even more interesting

Notch the ends of several long tubes with a craft knife and then help the kids build log cabins, fences, or huts with them. Use different-sized tubes for added versatility. For added realism, have the kids paint or color the tubes before construction begins.

Look What You Can Make With Newspapers, Magazines, and Greeting Cards  

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Newspapers uses papier-m ch techniques, decoupage, and cutting skills to make banks, clothed dolls, boxes, signs and cards, mobiles, etc. A switch-plate cover and a marble maze game are two of the more unusual ideas. Bottles, which requires potentially dangerous cutting procedures, only gives a safety warning in the introduction: "If you are having trouble cutting a container, ask for adult help." No warnings appear with individual projects, which combine plastic-container recyclables with paper, ribbon, fabric, buttons, and beads to make such items as bracelets, bookends, a desk aquarium, puppets, a playing-card holder, and decorative containers galore.

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Making envelopes 

Unique envelope from common paper tube

Without breaking it, you can flatten it and address it, then staple or (thoroughly!) tape the ends shut. As long as the postage and address are correct, it will go through the postal service as intended. It's a cool and creative way to make a unique envelope.

 

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Make a castle... 

with cardboard boxes and rolls

...using paper rolls and all sort of cardboard boxes. It will bring a lots of joy to kids. If kids are old enough they can even build it with you! Instructions are HERE!

Crafter's Desk Organizer 

Made of tissue box and paper rolls

Use cardboard tubes along with an empty cardboard tissue box to make a crafters desk organizer. Take the tissue box and snip the corners diagonally on the top,fold down the flaps to the inside and glue-this reinforces the box.Then take the tubes and cut them off so they are the same height as the box. Hot-glue (or use tacky-glue) in rows in the box (it takes about 15 toilet paper tubes). If you use a tissue box with a floral or decorator design it's very pretty. Then store all your markers,pens,glue sticks,scissors,hole punchers etc.on end in the tubes, within reach on your craftbench!

Paper roll characters

 

Arthur
Arthur Arthur is a simple color, cut and paste paper craft that uses a toilet paper roll as a base to give it a three dimensional effect.%uFFFD
Astronaut Craft
Astronaut toilet paper roll craft.
Athena Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Free printable instructions and templates for making a greek mythology toilet paper roll craft.
Baker or Chef Toilet Paper Roll Craft
free printable templates and instructions for a Baker or Chef Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Batman
Batman toilet paper roll craft.
Maggie's Ferocious Beast Craft
free printable templates and instructions for a maggie and the ferocious beast toilet paper roll craft.
Sesame Street's Bert Craft
printable template for a Bert toilet paper roll craft.
Betty Boop
Betty Boop Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Big Bird
Big Bird Craft Big Bird is a simple color, cut and paste paper craft that uses a toilet paper roll as a base to give it a three dimensional effect
Blossom
Blossom Powerpuff Girls Craft
I've had a whole bunch of requests for Powerpuff girls so have put Blossom together... sorry for the wait everyone!
British Bobby TP Roll Craft
British bobby toilet paper roll craft.
DLTK's Snips and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tails Craft
Little Boy Craft I receive a fair number of requests for crafts for birthday celebrations.

 

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Farmer Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Cain and Abel toilet paper roll craft.
Clown Toilet Paper Roll Craft
free printable templates for making a toilet paper roll circus clown craft. Suitable for preschool, kindergarten and early grade school kids.
Handyman Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Handyman/Builder toilet paper roll craft.
Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Cowboy
Cowboy toilet paper roll craft.
Cub Scout
Cub scout toilet paper roll craft.
Curious George
printable template for a Curious George toilet paper roll craft.
Cyclops Craft
Free printable instructions and templates for making a cyclops toilet paper roll craft.

Paper roll animals

 

Bald Eagle Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Bald eagle toilet paper roll craft.
Bat TP Roll Craft
free printable templates and instructions for an Australian Bat TP Roll Craft.
Bear TP Roll Craft
This is a cute three dimensional bear craft that is fun for young children to make and to play with.
Canadian Beaver Craft
This is a simple three dimensional beaver craft that is fun for kids to make and play with.
Blue's Clues Craft
Blue's Clue's toilet paper roll craft.
Bumblebee Craft for Kids
Bumblebee Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Bull Farm Animal Craft for Kids
bull toilet paper roll craft.
Valentine's Bee Craft
printable template and instructions for creating a Valentine's Day toilet paper roll bumble bee craft.
Easter Bunny Craft
printable craft templates for preschool and kindergarten kids Easter crafts.
Easter Bunny Craft
printable craft templates for preschool and kindergarten kids Easter crafts.
Butterfly Craft
The butterfly looks sort of like a monarch butterfly (except a bit more cheerful than the real deal).
Butterfly Flier Craft Instructions and Templates
Butterfly Flier Craft Instructions and Templates

 

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Cat Craft for Kids
Cat toilet paper roll craft.
Toilet Paper Roll Caterpillar
Free printable instructions and photographs for making a caterpillar craft.
Chameleon TP Roll Craft
Free printable templates for a chameleon tp roll craft for preschool, kindergarten and gradeschool kids.
Cheetah TP Roll Craft
Cheetah Toilet Paper Craft
Cheetah Cub Craft
Leopard toilet paper roll craft.
Easter Chick Craft
printable craft templates for preschool and kindergarten kids Easter crafts.
Chick Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Printable template and instructions for a chick tp roll craft.
Cow Farm Animal Craft for Kids
Cow toilet paper roll craft.
Cow TP Roll Craft
This is a cute three dimensional cow craft that is fun for young children to make and to play with.
Cowardly Lion Craft
Materials you will need are a toilet paper roll, printer, paper (I prefer construction paper or another heavier paper), scissors, glue, raffia or string, and something to colour with.
Crocodile Craft for Kids
Crocodile toilet paper roll craft.

 

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Christmas Crafts

 

Abel the Shepherd Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Free printable templates and instructions for an Abel the shepherd toilet paper roll craft.
Christmas Angel
This adorable angel is made with a toilet paper tube, a printer and a little imagination
TP Roll Advent Calendar
step by step instructions and photo for making an advent calendar for Christmas.
Nutcracker Toilet Paper Roll Craft
printable template for a nutcracker craft suitable for preschool, kindergarten and gradeschool kids.
Jesus Craft
Jesus toilet paper roll craft.
TP Roll Snowman Craft
fun children's crafts for all occassions including animal and holiday projects -- Christmas and Valentine's day. Specializing in printable templates for toilet paper tube crafts. Suitable for ages 3 to 7... preschool and kindergarten children tend to have the most fun.
TP Drum Ornament Christmas Craft
Use these free directions to create a neat drum ornament using a toilet tisse roll. A great Christmas tree ornament or gift.
Elf Toilet Paper Roll Roll Craft
printable template for a Christmas elf toilet paper roll craft.
Christmas Angel Tree Topper
Victoria from New mexico explains how to make an angel using items you might normally recycle.
New Year Party Popper - Chapter 11: Seasons and Celebrations
This craft is featured in chapter 11 of the About.com Guide to Family Crafts book.
Recycled Angel Craft - Free Craft Project
Instructions to make an Angel using a Toilet tissue roll.
TP Reindeer Ornament
Use these directions to create a fun reindeer ornament using a toilet tissue roll, shared by Carolyne.

Make English crackers 

Spirit of holidays with simple paper roll

Keep the spirit of holiday firecrackers but cut out the dangers associated with burning explosives. Use toilet paper tubes to make English crackers, which "explode" into tiny gifts. For each cracker, tie a string about 8 inches (20 centimeters) long around a small gift such as candy, a balloon, or a figurine. After tying, the string should have about 6 inches (15 centimeters) to spare. Place the gift into the tube so the string dangles out one end. Cover the tube with bright-colored crepe paper or tissue and twist the ends. When you pull the string, out pops the gift. Find out more about Christmas Crackers!

Paper roll ornaments 

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    aaron aaron Nov 19, 2009 @ 2:53 am
    Its the small things that count. If everyone would just do these small contributions of helping in greening our planet, then our kids will be able to live in a better world than yesterday.
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    lakshyaa lakshyaa Nov 16, 2009 @ 1:50 am
    Amazing lens! I never knew paper rolls could be reused in so many ways!
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    LaraineRose LaraineRose Nov 13, 2009 @ 2:14 am
    I never knew there were so many uses for paper rolls! While babysitting my twin nieces we made a puppet theatre out of a cardboard box, decorated and all of the puppets were created from paper rolls. They spent hours 'pretending' with those puppets but the best time we had was making them! A great lens. Thank you also for coming a blessing my Green lens.
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    arncyn arncyn Nov 12, 2009 @ 11:28 am
    I love this lens! I didn't know there could be so much use for them. The only thing I've been using toilet paper rolls for (so far) is organizing my hair bands. My kitty likes playing with them too so I craft toys for him using the cardboard. (:
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    World-Wanderer World-Wanderer Nov 7, 2009 @ 4:50 am
    I have a great Use for them. Fire starting. Fill 75% of it with the flaky peely bits of birch bark, or birch bark scrapings (outer bark only). Then take an ember, a smouldering fungus or bit of char cloth you have ignited using a spark, put this in the empty end and push against the bark (don't burn yourself). Then blow onto the ember. Try and hold the toilet tube using something else or it gets very hot and don't pack the tube too tightly. Keep blowing, even putting your mouth over the end and after a minute or so it will burst into flame :D
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    johnfn johnfn Nov 5, 2009 @ 6:08 pm
    interesting lens!
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    etan etan Nov 5, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
    umm, that was an amazing answer!
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    happynutritionist happynutritionist Oct 29, 2009 @ 3:58 pm
    So happy to have found this...delightful! And I thought I was doing good blogging about using old paper towel rolls to stuff plastic vegetable bags in for future use, never gave thought to so many of these uses. ~claudia
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    PirateMummy PirateMummy Oct 28, 2009 @ 11:53 pm
    Awesome!!! I especially like the seed-raising idea. I've been patiently rolling newspaper cups each spring - what a pain. Now i'll just save loo rolls all year. You don't know how much time you've just saved me!
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    FantasyDesigns FantasyDesigns Oct 28, 2009 @ 8:22 am
    Great tips! I usually just give the paper towel rolls to one of the kids and that's the end of it. :)
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