DIY Pencil Holder with Toilet Rolls

This DIY Pencil Holder with Toilet Rolls is one of the fun crafts that kids will love making. They can use this beautiful and versatile pencil holder to organize their stationary when they are back to school.

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Looking for fun crafts to do with kids?

Toilet paper rolls crafts are some of the most popular crafts that kids and adults love to make a variety of things out of.

DIY Pencil Holder is one such kids’ craft project where they learn to recycle, pattern making, and sort colors.

They will enjoy making it during back to school time when it’s time for them to start organizing their stationery including pens, pencils, crayons, and markers.

How to make DIY Pencil Holder Crafts with toilet paper rolls?

Kids can keep this versatile and beautiful pencil holder at home and add it to their table items or take it to school.

Either way, they will be excited to put their pencils, crayons and paintbrushes in something they made themselves with little bit of assistance.

This step by step tutorial makes it easy for kids to learn how to make this DIY Pencil Holder, one of the fun toilet paper roll crafts, at home.

This step by step tutorial makes it easy for kids to learn how to make this DIY Pencil Holder Craft.

SUPPLIES NEEDED:

• 2 Toilet Paper Rolls
• Pencil
• Glue Gun
• Scissors
• Scotch Tape
• Cardboard Piece
• Glue Stick
• Ruler
• Card Stock
• Pattern / Digital Paper

DIRECTIONS:

Take one of the two rolls. Measure with ruler to 1 1/2 inch. Make a mark with pencil around the roll. Using a craft knife, cut it in two pieces.

Take your cardboard piece, and make two circles with pencil. The diameter on the cardboard piece should be the same as the toiler roll diameter.

With the scissors, cut out the two circles.

Make sure the cardboard piece circles fit the toilet rolls.

Using the hot glue gun, glue the two circles into the toilet rolls. Take one whole toilet roll, and larger one of the two cut rolls, join them using the scotch tape.

Make sure they are sticking together well.

Take your patterned paper, and measure it with the one bigger roll, the one you created by joining the two rolls.

Make sure the cut out patterned paper measures little longer in size than the roll.

Cut out the patterned paper using the paper cutter.

You have to next glue the patterned paper to the larger roll. In order to do so, measure the paper so that it rolls around the toilet roll.

Using the glue stick, paste the patterned / digital paper around the roll.

Make sure the extra paper you cut earlier covers the edges of the roll.

Cut out two circles from the patterned paper. Using the glue stick them to the bottom of roll.

Using the glue stick, paste the patterned paper around the smaller roll as well.

Glue the circle on top of smaller roll as well.

Next comes the card stock. You need the make the inner part of the bigger roll. Cut out around 1.5 inch wide from the card stock, roll it into the longer roll.

Stick it into the longer roll. This will help this pencil holder to close the upper part of this pencil holder.

This is what the DIY Pencil Holder Craft looks like …

We had lot of fun making this DIY Pencil Holder craft. What are your favorite crafts to do with your kids? Please share in the comments below!