Follow these easy steps in the video to make a toilet paper robot, inspired by the one you read about in BOY + BOT.
You’ll need:
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1 toilet paper roll
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Silver paint
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2 pipe cleaners
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Bits of colored paper (or white paper to color and crayons)
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Scissors (and your adult)
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Glue (and your adult)
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3 colored beads ( we used red)
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Black pen or marker
INSTRUCTIONS:
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Paint the toilet paper roll silver; set aside to dry.
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Draw two small circles (maybe 1/2 an inch in diameter or smaller) on white paper
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Draw two even smaller circles on black paper (or paper you’ve colored black); set aside
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Cut a yellow rectangle (or white paper you color yellow) that’s about 2-inches tall and 2.5-inches wide
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Glue the yellow rectangle you’ve just made on top of a larger piece of paper, leaving some space around the sides so that the yellow paper appears to be inset.
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Draw a tiny circle on a different colored paper ( we used green) and again on one more colored paper (we used some of our left over yellow paper), these circles will be the pretend buttons.
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Cut out all the circles
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Glue one black circle onto a white circle; repeat to make two eyes
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Glue the eyes onto the upper portion of the toilet paper roll; glue the rectangle horizontally as a belly screen; and glue both button underneath the belly
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Cut each pipe cleaner in half
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On the side of the robot, where the arms should be, have an adult make a tiny hole using scissors, then push the tip of the pipe cleaner through the hole and repeat for the other side. Once done- reach inside the roll and flatten the pipe cleaner from inside to hold it in place
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Add beads to the outside of each pipe cleaner arm to protect a child from accidentally being scratches and to look like “hands”
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Add one more bead to one of the left over pipe cleaner pieces, then glue a portion of the pipe cleaner along the inside of the roll to serve as an antenna
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Use a pen or marker to draw a rectangular-like smile and to draw a jagged chart-like line across the belly screen
