Toilet Paper Roll Halloween Crafts That Work as Real Decorations

Every year around mid-September I find myself staring at the collection of empty toilet paper rolls I’ve been saving in the cupboard under the sink and thinking: right, now what.

This year I actually did something with them. Eighteen things, to be precise, because once you start making toilet paper roll Halloween characters you cannot stop. Maria made eleven mummies. Marina made a bat village. Tasos pretended not to be interested and then spent forty minutes making a vampire with a tiny paper cape.

Every craft below costs almost nothing, takes under an hour, and looks good enough to sit on your mantel alongside things you actually bought. That last part is the whole point. These are not the toilet paper roll crafts that look like toilet paper rolls. These are the ones that make people ask where you got them.

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