Transportation-themed Crafts For Kids
While you may not be able to take your children to an amusement park or a zoo daily, there are plenty of fun things that you can do with them at home. If you have kids with a keen interest in the transportation industry, here are some crafts that they can enjoy!
Toilet Paper Tube Boats
Here’s a simple one you can do with household items. For this project, you’ll just need a few supplies.
Materials:
Toilet paper tubes
Duct tape
Q-tips
Paper
Glue gun
Glue stick
Crayons, colored pencils
Instructions:
To start putting your toilet paper tube boats together, you’ll first need to cut the tube open. Trim the tube so that the hull (sides) of the boat will be shallow. The higher the sides of the boat, the more it will tip and have trouble floating on water.
Waterproof the outside of the boat by lining the outside of the tube with duct tape. Take a shorter piece of tape to close the open ends of the tube.
On a piece of paper, draw two matching triangles, decorate them however you like (with crayons, colored pencils, etc.) and then cut them out.
Place a q-tip between the two triangles and glue the two triangles together using a glue stick.
Use the hot glue gun to place a drop of glue in the bottom of the inside of the boat, and stick the end of the q-tip without the triangles attached, in the glue.
Let that glue dry, and then your boats are ready to set sail!
Cardboard Car Ramp
No need to shell out a bunch of cash for the latest Hot Wheels ramp. Here’s a simple way to build your own, with things you probably already have laying around at home!
Materials:
1 Cardboard wrapping paper tube
Black paint
White chalk pen (or white paint and a thin paintbrush)
Small toy cars
Instructions:
Cut along the length of the cardboard wrapping tube, creating two even halves for your ramps.
Paint the inside of the cut tubes with black paint and then let them dry.
Once the black paint on the tubes is dry, add road markings in white or yellow paint.
After the road markings are dry, you’re ready to get moving. You can try angling your ramps up against a chair or sofa and racing those cars at the same time!
Hot Air Balloon Mobile
Not only is this craft fun and simple to make, it will also look great in your child's room after it's done! If you have some old gift tags around the house, use them for this project.
Materials:
Colored cardstock paper
String or fishing line
Glue
Wooden dowel
Instructions:
Cut small pieces of colored cardstock paper into the shape of a hot air balloon. Get creative and decorate your hot air balloons as desired.
Glue the paper hot air balloons onto strings to look like they're floating through the sky.
Suspend your paper hot air balloons from a wooden dowel by tying and/or gluing to it the string the balloon is suspended from. You can even add cloud cut outs to hang from the dowel so your mobil looks more realistic!
