Little Red Riding Hood Craft!
My little Witches love the story Little Red Riding Hood. We have created a little red riding hood craft using tp rolls. The Witches really enjoyed creating The Three Little Pigs with tp rolls you can create so many characters!! Tp Rolls are fun and easy to use, they are used in the 100 Zoo Animal Crafts and the Witches created some adorable Mermaids, using paper mache
To make the Little Red Riding Hood Craft, can be crafted by children using recyclable materials in the home. I have used affiliate links in the post if you need help knowing where you can get them from.
We followed The Little Red Riding Hood Book to make the craft. We have 2 versions of the book: Ladybird and Oxford Traditional Tales. I have created an easy guide for you to follow.
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Materials Needed for Little Red Riding Hood Craft:
- TP Roll
- PVA Glue (UK/US)
- scraps of different coloured materials (UK/US)
- card (UK/US)
- wool UK/US)
- wool felt (UK/US)
- coloured felt tips (UK/US)
- scissors (UK/US)
- egg box (1 egg slot)
Body
Starting with the first piece coloured fabric (yellow). You will need to cut a piece to fit around the body (tp roll). Glue this to your tp roll:
For the back: cut out a piece to fit the back of the tp roll and glue this on. This piece does not need to be as high as the front:
Hair & Face
To make the hair you can use wool or wool felt. I don’t have many colours in wool and I have loads of wool felt. It is easier to use wool felt for the hair as you can style it like how you want it. I used 2 strips, as I wanted her to have parted hair, just like the book. Glue the hair on top of the tp roll into place.
Using your coloured felts, you can draw on her face. My eldest daughter thought she looked beautiful.

Coat & Hood
For the coat and hood I used red fabric. I did this in 2 pieces. Starting with the hood first you will need to cut out a triangle. Pop this on top of her hair with the triangle point at the back. You can glue the 3 points of the triangle down. Don’t pull it too tight:
For the coat you need the red fabric. Wrap it around the bottom half of the body to measure where you need to cut it. Leave some yellow fabric peeping out at the bottom:
Glue this into place. I left at a gap opening at the front. I only glued the rim at the top of the coat to make the coat float. Make sure you cover the tips of the triangle of the hood with your coat at the front:
Basket
To make the basket you will need to use one part of an egg carton. You will need a strip of card, some wool and glue. Start by glueing around the egg cup, lots of it. Tie one hoop around the egg cup and tie it in a knot. You may need to keep adding glue. This can get quite messy!!
Now you can start by wrapping your wool around the egg cup. Keep adding glue as you go along. This will keep the wool in place. Wrap enough wool around the egg cup, and meet back at the top where you started. Tie it off, cut off any loose strands:
Cut a strip of card for the handle, not too long. Using the same wool, glue your card and lay strips of the wool onto the glue. Glue the handle inside the basket:
Finished Little Red Riding Hood Craft
What do you think of the little lady? The character to me looks as if she has fallen from the book. This will be great for story time!!
Grandma
The grandma is ace to make and I have made her just like the book, with a puzzle face. She is made like little red riding hood.
Materials Needed for Grandma:
Head & Face
Again we followed the Oxford book on how the Grandma looks. Looking confused as she is coming out of the wardrobe!!
To make her hair you will need a pom pom ball, or use newspaper crushed up into a ball. Apply glue on the inside of the tp roll at the top. Insert the pom pom ball and leave a bit sticking out of the top. Using wool/wool felt attach it to the top of the pom pom ball with glue. Glue her hair to the tp roll too. With your felt tips draw on her face:
Clothing for Grandma
For Grandma’s clothing I used white, yellow and Burgundy fabric. Start with the yellow fabric first. Measuring around the bottom of the loo roll, mark, cut. and glue this on. On the white fabric you will need to cut out a collar for her. Cut out and glue this on next:
To make her dress I used burgundy colour fabric. This is the nearest colour match to the book, you can use what you can find around the home. Wrap the fabric around the bottom of the tp roll. Make a mark line for the length you need, then cut it. Laying it on top again, mark around the out line of the collar, and cut this out. You might need to keep trimming it, to make it look right. Glue this on once you get it right and add a few gems to her top. Think this Grandma likes a bit of dazzle!!
Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf who tries to eat Grandma! I didn’t want to make him too scary and thought it would be better for a soft look for the children.
Materials Needed for The Big Bad Wolf:
Making the wolf was quite tricky to make, especially the nose. The girls always say “The Big Bad Wolf, what big eyes, what big ears”. Looking through the pictures of the Oxford book, we tried our best at getting the wolf looking the same. We decided we wanted our wolf dressed in Grandma’s PJ’s too.
Head
To make the head you need to glue the inside top of the loo roll and insert your pom pom. Just like you did for the Grandma!!
Using pink fabric. You need to cut out a circle enough to go around the top of your pom pom ball. Thread some wool through a needle and feed the needle though the fabric. Put it on top of the pom pom ball, and pull it tight around its head. Add some glue to make the hat stay in place:
Next you will need to make the wolf some ears. I used orange card for this. Drawing out one ear first, and using that ear to draw out the other. Using a brown felt tip we drew around the ears. Glue the ears on the side of the hat:
Draw on the eyes:
Wolf in Grandma’s PJ’s
Using pink fabric, measure all around the loo roll. You only need the bottom half. Mark it, cut it and glue it on:
For the frill to go around the top of the pink fabric, I used a lighter pink fabric for this. You only need a thin strip to go around. Draw a line measurement, and a frill line too. Cut out and glue this on. I added a few little flowers on as buttons:
Nose/mouth
Using card, you will need to draw out a nose shape. Draw a TAB, you can fold this over to attach it to the loo roll. Cut this out and copy it again so you have 2. Make one of them smaller, by cutting it rounder. You will need to push down the sides for the nose at the top. Pull the sides up for the mouth. Colour in wolf markings on the nose, and colour inside the mouth. You can glue this on:
Finished Little Red Riding Hood Craft
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Thats fab Mommy Engineering, it is cool for the kids to have role play when reading a book. I love how my little witches act out the story when they play with them!!
Love it! My kids take role playing very seriously and would love to do a craft like this to help us act out this classic story! <3
Thats great theresareview, Kids will love to make a crafts after a book!!
Thats great Louise. Make sure you share your craft with us, we would love to see your little red riding hood x
Yeah its a FAB project to do, its great for kids who are reading the book x
This is a cute craft. My kids would really like this, especially my daughter. Great afternoon project.
This is such a cool craft idea. Guess what I’m going to be doing with Oscar tomorrow? 🙂
Louise x
Thats sounds good Brittany. I have mentioned in another comment, that I am thinking of doing a template for the clothing. I am just seeing if its worth doing yet!! Thanks for the lovely comment!!
Thanks Hilesha, I am thinking of doing a pattern piece for people for this craft. Hope this is something you are interested in. I need to know if people would love this idea??
The crafts we have done should easily keep her entertained over the summer. Check the posts on the Easy Crafts for Kids!!
http://witchestellthestory.com/easy-kids-crafts/
Thanks Heather. Thats great, my little Witches love playing with them!!
Yeah it was a fun craft to do.We love our fairytale characters!!
We are about to enter into our first full year of homeschooling. I am really excited and I’ve been putting together all the craft ideas I can! I’m definitely adding this!
This is too cute! I’d love to try something like this sometime. I know that my daughter will love it, too. 🙂
Omg what a cute craft!!!! I need a ton of ideas for keeping my daughter occupied all summer. Might just have to add this to the list
This is a cute little craft! It seems like a fun way for kids to connect with one of the all time classic fairy tales.
This is a great craft and my two year old daughter would love to make it with her big sister!
What a fun craft! Looks like a great project for a rainy day and uses stuff we probably all have on hand! TFS!
Its a FAB craft to do and we loved making it. The Witches love playing with the characters!!
We love creating a craft from a story book. We like to think of it bringing the characters out of the book!!
Doing Arts & Crafts with the little Witches have brought them on so much. They have great ideas too!!
We love reading books and doing a craft for the book. The Witches love the idea too!!
A cute way to share the story with your children. A good idea for a summer craft.
What a fun craft! I love the idea of creating storybook characters as part of the fun.
This is so fun and creative! It is so important to get little ones into arts and crafts! I really believe it helps to grow their imaginations!
This will be a perfect craft to do on rainy days (of which we have had many as of late!) this summer. I love the tie in to a beloved story.
Aww glad you like the craft cvnxena. Grandma is my favourite too.
These are so cute! and a great way to make stories interactive which definitely promotes learning! loving grandma too, she looks sassy :p
Haha love your comment!! Thanks Dawn xx
That is so awesome! And you could use these to tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood to the kids. Now that is what I call a great craft!
Fantastic Melissa. I love Fairytale Crafts and the kids love them too x
Thanks Bri for your comment xx
Aww great stuff Reesann. I love how easy it is to transform a loo roll into a fairytale character!!
Your use of loo or toilet paper rolls is great. Your attention to detail is amazing and the story really can come alive with these. I have got to try this with my young niece and nephew.
These are so creative! I loved that you used this classic book for inspiration!
What a fun craft! I am going to put this on our summer to do list, my daughter would love it!!!
Thanks Ana. It was fun to make too!!
This is the most attractive loo roll I have ever seen so kudos to you for making this red riding hood craft. I love the detailing x
Aww thats fab Journa. Lets us know how you get on. You can post your photos on my Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/witchestellthestory
Thanks for your comment Jocelyn. My little Witches love playing with them now, and acting it out!!
Great stuff Allison. We love our fairy tale stories, and the Witches love playing with them!!
I know Janel, you can create so many crafts with the things you throw away daily. It keeps my little Witches busy!!
Thanks Cassie. Let us know how you get on. You can share your crafts on our Facebook Page!! http://www.facebook.com/witchestellthestory
These are such a cute craft, I remember making loads of things out of loo rolls when I was a kid as it was so easy to make things x
I love crafts like these. They really help bring a story to life for kids.
These are so cute! I should gather all the materials needed and make it with my girls before their school season starts. Bonus is, they love the story about little red riding hood.
So awesome! I love this idea and I would love to make this with my kids. I think it’s a lot of fun and it’s so adorable too. It’s a lovely way to introduce them to the story!
This is so cute! I love how detailed your instructions are, perfect for people like me who aren’t that artsy. When my son gets older we will be making this for sure!
This is so adorable! My kids would love to make this the next time they read the story.
What a creative way to use household supplies that one would normally throw away. I bet it helps kids bring the story to life and understand it better .
Love this and definitely going to be keeping it for next time my niece comes over! I love kids arts projects and especially when you can repurpose every day household items to make such adorable things!
Great stuff Jessica. Let us know how you get on x
These came out so cute! They look pretty simple as well, so I will have to try them out with my daughter. She loves little red riding hood as well.
Thanks for your comment Karen. I hope you give it ago, my Little Witches love playing with them!!
Thats great Amanda. How old is your daughter?
One of the things that I love doing with my daughter is arts and crafts. We always have so much fun together. I think this should be our next project!
I think this is wicked awesome! I love the creativity. Everything’s just accurate and it would be a lot of fun for the kids to play with as well. It’s not that difficult to make either!
Yeah same here, loved it for so many years and its so nice to share it with my children!!
Thanks Sonia. Its a FAB craft for the kids, especially because its little red riding hood too!!
Thanks for your comment Kimberly. I cannot remember my ever first craft. I have been doing this sort of thing with my kids who the eldest is 16. We have created so many in the years!!
This is so crafty, I love it! Little Red Riding Hood is one of my favorite childhood tales.
Much love,
Ashley | dearash.com
Wow! So pretty. Its such a fun art and craft for kids that they will absolutely love putting this together.
I’ve never really been a DIY mom but this post (and others like it) always inspire me to find something I’d enjoying crafting myself. What was the first craft you ever did?
Thats great Robin. My little Witches love playing with them too!!
How cute is this??? Both of my nieces are both so into fairy tales right now and they would LOVE to do this craft with me the next time they come over!!!
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Thank you Shilpa Arya for your lovely comments.
This is a nice idea.. they are all looking so pretty.
I better getting my finger out again and start on the next fairytale. Thank you!!
It’ll be great designing more. A Rapunzel with really long hair, a Cinderella with patches… I like the sound of a whole fairy tale loo roll army!
Thank you. We love fairytales,so we thought why not bring the characters out of the book!
These are great, such a fun way to bring a book to liufe