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These Halloween Paper Tube Owls make a spooky cute Halloween craft for kids using simple recycled materials like toilet paper tubes.
Halloween is so fun for crafting with the kids. You can basically turn any characters into spooky cute creatures in our case, these Halloween Paper Tube Owls! Make a mummy, bat, skeleton and pumpkin owl!
The designs were inspired by this clip art we purchased of Halloween Owls. We turned them into our own 3-D versions so fun for Halloween crafting.
What do you need to make Halloween Owls?
These adorable Halloween owls are so easy to make, all you’ll mainly need are colored paper cardstock, paper tubes, glue and scissors.
We created a quick templates of parts we mocked up for our examples, but you don’t need it to make these. You can definitely create your own wings, eyes, etc, depending on the final look you want. Our crafts are always meant to inspire but making your own is the fun part of crafting!
Halloween Paper Tube Owls – Materials
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Paper Tubes or toilet paper tubes
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Colored cardstock in various colors, definitely need black and orange for the main bodies
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Scissors, glue or tape
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Gauze (for the mummy owl)
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White crayon (this is the best brand of white crayons we’ve ever tried!)
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Free Template (casual mock up of our traced drawings for the parts) but remember, it’s easy to make your own bat wings, eyes, etc.
INSTRUCTIONS:
*Watch the video in this post to see how to make these Halloween paper tube owls (bat, mummy, pumpkin and skeleton)
Step 1. Cover your paper tube in colored paper cardstock as shown (orange for the mummy and pumpkin and black for the skeleton and bat). Use tape or glue.
Step 2. Fold down the tube at the top to make two pointed ears.
Step 3. You’ll need to cut 4 sets of eyes, beaks, and legs for your 4 owls.
Step 4. At this time it’s a matter of assembly. Here are the specific parts you’ll need for each owl:
Pumpkin Owl
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Strips of orange to make the pumpkin body, green oval for face, pumpkin top and green stem.
Bat Owl
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Two black bat wings
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Purple semi-circle for body
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Red bow tie
Mummy Owl
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Two orange wings and strips of gauze to mummify it!
Skeleton Owl
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White oval for face
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Two black wings
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White crayon to draw the owl skeleton
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Agnes Hsu is a mom of three and has been inspiring parents and kids to get creative with easy activities and family friendly recipes for over 10 years. She shares her love for creative play and kids food to her 2MM+ followers online. Agnes' commitment to playful learning and kindness has not only raised funds for charity but also earned features in prestigious nationwide publications.