Cardboard Vehicles Part 1: Train
A fun project to make is Corrugated Cardboard Vehicles. Children, especially, will have fun peeling the cardboard to get to the corrugated part.
This is a two-part series of how to make cardboard vehicles. This is Part 1: The Train.
You need:
Cardboard, the kind that makes packaging boxes
Hot glue- Get an adult to help you
Scissors
Paint (optional)
To get the corrugated part of the cardboard, rip the top piece of paper off the cardboard, leaving a squiggly interior. Repeat on the opposite side of the cardboard. You can use these leftover papers as play birchbark to write on. They curl up so they look like scrolls. You could even glue sticks on the edges and roll them up.
Next, cut the squiggly parts left over from the disassembling of the cardboard, which are called corrugated cardboard, into strips. Then roll them up:
The wheels: 4 one-half inch strips, 1 inch in diameter
The steam pipe: 1 two-and-one-half inch strip, 1/4 inch in diameter
The body: 1 four-inch strip, 1 inch in diameter
When rolling the strips, add dots of hot glue along the strip and one at the end to seal the circle.
Next, glue the pieces together, namely the steam pipe onto the top of the body, and the wheels onto the sides, two to a side.
Finally, cut a trapezoid with a top of 1 inch, a base of 1 1/2 inch, and a height of 1 inch. Glue the trapezoid, or the cowcatcher, onto the front of the body. You might want to paint the train.
Why not paint a railroad track on a piece of cardboard to play with the train in?
Happy making!
