Show the kids how to recycle those cardboard tubes into these adorable giraffes.

Paper towel roll
Yellow & brown paint
Google eyes
Glue
Scissors
Pipe cleaner

Start by painting your paper towel roll yellow and allow to dry.

Paint some brown spots on your paper towel roll.

Cut some feet out of the bottom of your paper towel roll.

On the top of your paper towel roll so that it looks like the head of a giraffe sticking up.

Add your eyes, pipe cleaners and a scrap of paper towel roll for a mouth.

This craft is reprinted courtesy of TPCraft.com.