101 uses for toilet roll insert

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101 uses for toilet roll insert

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

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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

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Post: # 15653Post Kfish »

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

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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)

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Post: # 15683Post Hepsibah »

We always call them 'duh-duh-duh's'. :shock:
Because when the children were small they always used to put them to their lips, trumpet style and go " Duh-Duh-Duuuhhh!!!". :lol: :roll:
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12. Use with kindling to light fires

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Post: # 15746Post Libby »

Hepsibah wrote:We always call them 'duh-duh-duh's'. :shock:
Because when the children were small they always used to put them to their lips, trumpet style and go " Duh-Duh-Duuuhhh!!!". :lol: :roll:
We call them doot-da-roots for the same reason :lol:
I want to wake up in the morning and see green!

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Post: # 15762Post ina »

Paint them all different colours and string them up as decoration for Christmas / fancy dress parties etc
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Post: # 15763Post nick »

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

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Post: # 15797Post Ranter »

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.

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

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Post: # 25055Post Monty »

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?
Weeds make me mad.

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Post: # 25104Post elfcurry »

I've tried planting seeds (eg runner beans) in them but found two practical problems:
  1. the compost falls out the bottom
  2. they unroll when damp
I didn't try again as the remedies didn't seem worth the bother!

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Post: # 25125Post circlecross »

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!)

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