Astronauts at the ready!

If your little one is space mad, this cute toilet roll craft is perfect. Create your space suit using toilet paper roll tubes, then pop a picture of your child on the top.

Use up any leftover toilet roll tubes and try these other space-themed makes too – you could create a cool rocket craft, or an awesome toilet roll alien.

You will need:

• Toilet paper roll tubes
• Clear plastic cup of jelly pot (rescued from the recycling)
• Pens and pencils
• Sticky tape
• Glue
• Coloured card (we used blue)
• Scissors
• White paint
• Paintbrush
• Photo of your child

How to make your astronaut toilet paper roll craft

Step 1

First, draw around the rim of the plastic cup on the card. Then, inside this outline, draw around the loo roll tube. Cut the card so that you’re left with a ring ­– you’ll use this later to build the astronaut.

Step 2

Ask your child to paint the tube white.

Step 3

Once it’s dry, they can draw some astronaut suit details on the tube and colour them in.

Step 4 

While they’re busy doing that, snip out a photo of them (or snap and print a new one).

Step 5

Tape the ring that you made earlier to the top of the tube. Then tape the photo, too.

Step 6

Add glue to the paper ring, and glue on the plastic cup helmet.