Your Local Early Learning Centre shares this month’s activity of the month… Toilet Roll Rocket Ships
Your local early learning centre shares this adorable DIY rocket ship craft using empty toilet rolls and other household bits and pieces.
To make one rocket ship, you will need:
- Old toilet rolls
- Sheets of coloured card (in 3 different colours of your choice)
- Scissors (with adult supervision)
- Glue
- Orange, yellow and red tissue paper
Steps:
- From one of your sheets of coloured card, cut a rectangle wide and long enough to fit around the whole toilet roll with a slight overlap when wrapped around it.
- Ensuring the rectangle fits around the toilet roll, glue down the overlapping piece of card (you could also use sticky tape).
- Cut a 4-inch circle from another sheet of coloured card (you could use the base of a glass or compass), along with three small triangles from the same sheet of card.
- Cut a slit into the centre of the circle, then roll it and glue it into a cone shape, glue to the top of the toilet roll.
- Cut three small slits around the bottom of the toilet roll, equal lengths apart, and put glue in each one.
- Fold the little triangles in half and fit the shortest sides into the three slits, so that the triangles come out of each slit at the base of the rocket – these will be the fins of the rocket.
- From the third sheet of coloured card, cut out little windows, a door, and any other shapes or designs you’d like to add! Glue them to the body of the rocket.
- Finally, cut some squares out of the tissue paper and glue to the inside of the bottom of the toilet roll, alternating colours – you can scrunch them a little and flare them out to the sides to make them look like flames!
Here’s another kid DIY activity you might like: Paddle Pop Stick Bees
