Octopus: Toilet paper tube crafts

O is for Octopus!

The toilet paper roll octopus is one of the easiest to make. Here’s what you will need:

• 1 toilet paper roll
• Scissors
• Single hole punch
• Pencil
• Black marker
• Glue
• White scrap paper

First, cut 8 slits about 3/4 the way up the toilet paper roll tube. These will form the tentacles! Then, use a hole punch to punch out 20-ish white dots from any scrap paper and glue them to the underside of the tentacles. You will also use 2 hole punches as eyes. Use a black marker to draw swirls and add pupils to the eyes. The last thing you need to do is curl the legs up with a pencil or any other small cylinder shaped object you have laying around, pen, chop stick, etc!

Here are the other toilet paper roll crafts in the series:

• A is for anteater
• B is for beaver
• C is for cat
• D is for dog
• E is for elephant
• F is for fish
• G is for giraffe
• H is for horse
• I is for iguana
• J is for jellyfish
• K is for kangaroo
• L is for llama
• M is for Mouse
• N is for Numbat

And now for a few fun facts about octopuses:

• Crab, shrimp, and lobsters are octopuses favorite foods!
• When threatened, octopuses shoot an inky fluid that darkens the water to confuse the attacker.
• Octopuses typically live alone in dens built from rocks.

Next Tuesday I’ll have a letter P toilet paper tube creature ready for you! Can you guess what P animal I made!?