101 uses for toilet roll insert

gunners71uk · Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:45 pm

a telescope to spot other allotmenteers !!!!!!!!

albert onglebod · Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:40 pm

2. tape 2 together for toy binoculars
3. shred to add to your compost
4. make christmas crackers with snaps and crepe paper
5. use to make miniature fairy castles by ading a cone shaped roof and glueing and painting.
6. give them to the gerbils or mice to use for tunnels

Kfish · Post: # 15653Post **Kfish** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:55 am

7. push into dirt around seedlings to discourage cutworm
8. fill with potting mix and plant seeds in

glenniedragon · Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:51 am

9. string some together and paint green. There you have it a giant snake for kids 'jungle' bedroom

10 Give to local Nursery (for children not plants) as they have 1001 uses for them and never say no (not to bubble wrap, packing polystyrene, envelopes, fabric off-cuts etc..either)

Kind thoughts
Deb

Hepsibah · Post: # 15683Post **Hepsibah** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:20 am

We always call them 'duh-duh-duh's'.

Because when the children were small they always used to put them to their lips, trumpet style and go " Duh-Duh-Duuuhhh!!!".

Millymollymandy · Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:15 am

12. Use with kindling to light fires

Libby · Post: # 15746Post **Libby** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:44 pm

Hepsibah wrote:We always call them 'duh-duh-duh's'.
Because when the children were small they always used to put them to their lips, trumpet style and go " Duh-Duh-Duuuhhh!!!".

We call them doot-da-roots for the same reason

ina · Post: # 15762Post **ina** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:58 pm

Paint them all different colours and string them up as decoration for Christmas / fancy dress parties etc

nick · Post: # 15763Post **nick** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:34 pm

put some rice inside, cover ends, decorate and shake.

Ranter · Post: # 15797Post **Ranter** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:02 pm

15 (I think) give them to kittens to play with.

Family & friends bought my kitten loads of toys - the ones she preferred were toilet roll tubes & screwed up balls of paper. So maybe a cat/animal shelter would appreciate some tubes.

Hepsibah · Post: # 15816Post **Hepsibah** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:59 pm

Stick one over a golfball sized lightbulb in a lamp and use it as an egg candler.

wulf · Post: # 15882Post **wulf** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:35 am

17. Draw faces on them and collect a whole tribe!

When I was at university, one of my close friends and housemates liked to do this. By the end of the year, our bathroom was crowded with numerous "TR people"!

Wulf

Monty · Post: # 25055Post **Monty** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:05 pm

I saw on the tv show 'heaven's garden,' that toilet roll inserts can be filled with compost, then carrot seeds can go in and germinate, then be planted straight out....

Do they fully biodegrade quick enough? Or would you steer well clear?

elfcurry · Post: # 25104Post **elfcurry** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:49 pm

I've tried planting seeds (eg runner beans) in them but found two practical problems:

the compost falls out the bottom
they unroll when damp

I didn't try again as the remedies didn't seem worth the bother!

circlecross · Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:13 am

sorry to be a stick in the mud, but nursery regulations forbid the use of toilet rolls for craft. Kitchen rolls are fine. You can use them with your own precious darlings, but not other people's unfortunately (I get through more TP than KR, so they'll have to be plant pots instead!)

Susan