DIY Toilet Paper Roll Gnomes

For this project I used:

• Empty Toilet Paper Rolls
• Green and Red Felt
• Jute Twine
• Rice
• White and Gray Yarn
• Hot Glue and Glue Gun
• Scissors
• Wood Beads
• Wood Snowflakes and Stars
• Household items like scissors, ruler, pencil, and an 8 inch bowl

To create the body of the gnome, I basically made it up as I went along, and thankfully it worked out.

First things first, I traced the outline of an 8″ bowl on the red and green felt with a pencil and cut it out with scissors.

Next, I cut an empty toilet paper roll in half. This will be used to make the body of the gnome. Since I wanted these gnomes to sit on a shelf, the toilet paper roll gave it a more solid structure to sit upright.

After cutting out the circle and cutting the empty toilet paper roll in half, I glued the half toilet paper roll in the center of the circle and filled it with rice.

Gnomes aren’t meant to look perfect so I just gathered up the edges of the felt circle around the toilet paper roll and tied it off with a string of jute twine. I knew the beard would hide the folds in the felt anyway.

Next came the beard!

To make the beard, I wrapped some gray yarn around my hand 70 times to create a tassel.

A tassel is easy to make by tying off one end of a bunch of looped yarn, and cutting the other end. This gray yarn tassel was hot glued over the top portion of the body of the gnome where the felt is tied with the jute twine.

Then add on the little yarn hat with glue. For this part I had to stuff the top part of the tassel inside the little yarn hat and glue in place. Glue on a wood bead for the nose and any decorative wood cutout on the front of the body of the gnome. I had both stars and snowflakes in my craft room stash so that is what I used. You can skip this part if you don’t want to add any decorative pieces to the body of the gnomes.

Read below on how to make the yarn hat!

Making the yarn hats

Here are the steps along with photos to follow.

Measure and cut a 1/2″ section off the end of a empty toilet paper roll. This will become the folded up band of the yarn hat when you are done.

Measure and cut many pieces of yarn at about 10 inches each. They don’t have to be exact or perfectly cut either.

Take each piece of yarn, create a loop around the 1/2″ ring that you have already cut off from the empty toilet paper roll and pull tight.

Continue this step all the way around the toilet paper ring until it is completely covered.

Once the entire toilet paper ring is covered in yarn, flip the yarn pieces through the center of the ring to create the look of the band of a hat.

Gather the strings together and tie them off with another piece of yarn. Cut off the ends of the strings and you have created a pom pom top to your little yarn hat.

I made three of these little adorable gnomes to sit on a shelf, or the mantel in my home this Christmas.

Finally, the Wood Bead Dangling Legs

To make these sitting gnomes even more adorable, I decided to create some dangling legs for them.

I strung 7 wood beads on a piece of jute twine for each leg, tied off the ends, and glued the two strands of the wood beads to the underside of each gnome.

Place the gnomes on a shelf and allow the legs to dangle over the side. They are so cute that way just chillin’ and hanging out together.