I confess: I am a toilet-roll hoarder
Because it pays off! Just watch:
Busy, busy hands.
Lots and lots and lots of toilet rolls. 72, to be exact. Which I just happened to have in a giant bag in the back porch.
Lots of paint.
Add a judicious amount of clear packing tape, spatter-painted paper, card stock, and ribbon…
and you get advent calendars!!
Ta-dah!
Simple. Assembling them, which I did after hours, was a little time-consuming, but was done while I visited with my children — specifically, my eldest, visiting from Missouri with her lovely boyfriend — so that was fun. Each tube is stuffed with a chocolate or two scrunched up in a poof of tissue (just to keep it in the tube).
Pretty, effective, simple — and cheap! My kind of craft.
This used perhaps half my stash. Perhaps. Whatever shall we do next?