A
Marvelous Motor-Car
You’ll need:
Two clean and dry juice or milk boxes
Some thin, flexible wire
Four matching bottle caps
Modeling clay
Scissors
A magic marker
Adhesive tape
Paint
How to build it:
- Draw the front and the windows of your car on one of
the empty boxes.
- Cut along the lines you’ve drawn. Ask an
adult for help, if you need to.
- To complete the front
of the car, cut out the side of the second box. Then
fold it and attach it to the
front
opening with adhesive tape.
- Cut open the front window.
- Paint the car with your favorite
color. Make two small holes near the bottom of each
side for the
wires that
will hold the wheels together.
- Make a hole in the
center of each of the four caps. (Ask an adult for
help, if you need to.)
Run a piece of wire through a cap, then
through two facing holes on the car’s sides. Place
another cap on
the other end of the wire. Do the same
for the other two wheels.
Cover the wire ends with little balls of
modeling clay.- Step on the gas! Full speed ahead!
Use your imagination: You can use juice
boxes or milk container to make all sorts of vehicles.
Try making a train with
small bottle caps, a bus with medium size caps, or use
really big bottle caps to make a tractor!
From Creating By Recycling (Crafts For All Seasons), by Anna Llimos and Laia Sadurni. Blackbirch Press (c) 2000, Blackbirch Press. Reprinted by permission of The Gale Group.
