Recycled Toilet Paper Art

Here's a fun DIY art project made from recycling toilet paper and paper towel rolls. We don't like being wasteful, and this fun project helps up to make something beautiful out of items we would normally just toss. Start by simply putting a box with a note asking bathroom users to please place their toilet paper rolls in the box for a recycled art project. We collected rolls for 4 months for our sculpture, so our finished project is pretty big, but there is no requirement for how many you need to start. If you're not pleased with the amount you collected initially, you can always add on more as more rolls are collected. 

What You'll Need:

Toilet paper rolls

Hot glue gun

Hot glue sticks

Scissors 

Spray paint in a color of your choice, we used metallic silver

First thing to do is take your collected rolls and cut them into about 1" strips.

 While you're cutting is a great time to remove any excess toilet paper that is stuck on the rolls.

 Next, you will put a line of hot glue along the folded edge of the toilet paper roll.

Quickly while the glue is still hot, you will attach another piece of roll.

 Continue gluing and adding rolls until you have 6 rolls together that make a star shape, which is your first row to build upon.

Continue the same process, building off the first row. Be careful not to squish any pieces in there too hard, you want each roll to sit gently between rolls, not shoved in forcefully.

Keep building until it gets bigger and bigger.

Once it gets to a size you are pleased with, you can begin to spray paint it. Getting inside the rolls can be difficult, but we think that  a little brown showing through looks just fine.

After your piece drys, hang on a wall and enjoy your recycled toilet paper wall art. :)