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Happy Toilet-Roll Christmas Tomte (gnome)

Age: 3–5 years · Time: 30 min · Level: Easy

A happy little tomte (a Nordic Christmas gnome) that can stand on the windowsill all of December.

Materials

• 1 empty toilet paper roll
• red paper (half a letter-size sheet) for the hat
• light pink or beige paper for the face
• cotton balls for the beard
• black marker
• child-safe scissors with rounded tips
• glue stick
• tape

Steps

1. Glue light pink paper around the top half of the roll. This is the face.
2. An adult cuts a half circle out of red paper.
3. Roll the half circle into a cone and tape it closed. Now you have a hat.
4. Put the hat on the roll and tape it in place.
5. Glue a white paper strip around the bottom edge of the hat and a small cotton ball on the tip.
6. Draw two eyes and a happy mouth with the black marker.
7. Pull the cotton into small tufts and glue them under the mouth as a beard.