Monday, June 20, 2016

DIY Paper Towel Roll Mini Top Hats

I had an empty paper towel roll and a vision to turn it into mini top hats. Oh. My. Gosh. They came out even more adorable than I ever could have anticipated. You need to make them. Now. Right now. Just unroll your paper towels. Spill milk all over the kitchen and wipe it up. Whatever you have to do to get your hands on an empty paper towel roll, do it. Then make these.

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Paper Towel Roll Mini Top Hats


How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

What You'll Need:

What You'll Do:

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Set down a piece of scrap paper, then spray paint the paper towel tube black. Wait about five minutes and give it a second coat. I do this in the woods behind our house so that if I accidentally spray too much the smell goes into the air, not into our home.

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Measure your paper towel tube and make markings to split the tube into five pieces. My tube was 11 inches, so I made four of then 2.25-inches and the fifth was 2-inches.

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Using scissors or an X-Acto knife, cut along the pencil marks. I wouldn't suggest folding the tube to cut it because you don't want that crease. Instead, carefully score around the tube, then cut deep enough to get a blade of your scissor in and cut around. Or just use an X-Acto knife. If I had one handy, I think that would have been easier.

If your cuts are a little jagged, cut off any "hangings" with your scissors.

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Take your pieces back outside and give them another coat of spray paint. That will remove any discoloration (or, really, gaps that formed when the paint fell off from cutting).

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Make a circle on the black card stock that's the size of your paper towel roll. Cut it out.

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Measure and cut a large circle from your black card stock. I eyeballed mine, but if you're looking for measurements, mine is 2.5-inches in diameter.

Measure and cut a smaller circle from your colored card stock. I eyeballed this one too, but it's about 1 and 7/8ths of an inch.

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Cut a small strip of the colored card stock. Mine was .25-inch by five inches. 

Now that all our components are cut, it's time to assemble.

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Glue around one of the tube's edges and affix the first circle you cut (the one that's the same size as the tube). Let it dry. We'll be calling this the "closed" end from now on and the opposite side of the tube is the "open" end.

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Glue the colored strip of paper around the "open" end of your paper towel tube. Let it dry.

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Glue the colored circle down in the center of the large black circle. Let it dry.

Don't worry that mine isn't solid. I had a different idea originally for this (I thought I might slide it over the tube so I needed a hole, but I decided against that).

How SUPER CUTE are these DIY mini top hats from www.abrideonabudget.com? They're made from an empty paper towel roll too! Check out the link to find out how to make your own cardboard top hats!

Glue around the "open" end of the tube and affix it to the blue circle. Allow the whole thing to dry overnight and you've got mini cardboard top hats. 

BRIDAL BABBLE: What would you use these paper towel roll mini top hats for?

3 comments:

  1. This is a really cute craft to make with the kids.

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  2. What adorable little hats. They'd go great for a bridal shower or wedding favor (fill with a jar of bubbles or a candy bag) but I think my kids would like making cat in the hat style hats out of them too! Thanks for linking up with Pretty Pintastic and hope you join us for Small Victories Sunday Linkup too. New one starts 8pm EST Saturday and runs all week.

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  3. How adorable! You can't even tell they're made from cardboard tubes!

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