Create a model town using small cardboard boxes. Toothpaste boxes can become skyscrapers and towers, while smaller boxes are ideal for making houses. Use a large piece of cardboard as a base to put the buildings; draw the streets and sidewalks and paint them. Before painting the boxes, stuff them with newspaper. Paint or wrap them with colorful paper. Draw or paint windows, doors and other details. You can even make fences, bridges and traffic signposts for your town using cardboard.
Transform toilet paper rolls into Christmas candlesticks. To create a dripped-wax effect, put some white glue on an extremity of the roll and leave it to run down the sides. Leave it to dry, and then apply two coats of red paint. Use gold foil wrapping paper to cut flame shapes, which you attach to painted cardboard tube. Put several cardboard candlesticks together to create a Christmas display.
Transform a cardboard toilet roll into a fluffy lamb. Bend two pipe cleaners and glue them on one side of the toilet roll to make the lamb's legs. Fill the roll with newspaper or other scrap paper. Glue cotton balls, covering the toilet roll entirely. Cut off a circle of black felt and glue on an extremity of the roll, to make the lamb's face. You can also glue a black pompom or painted cotton ball to the other extremity, to make the lamb's tail. Glue wiggle eyes to the lamb's face or make them with felt.
Cut a strip of cardboard and shape it around your finger. Wrap the cardboard ring using duct tape of your favorite color or pattern, until it holds in place and is completely covered. Tie a piece of ribbon around the ring. Twist it and wrap it around to create a rose. Trim the edge and hold the rose-ribbon by putting two pieces of tape to its sides. Alternatively, glue a crystal or small bead to the center of the rose.