What do you do with an empty box, bored kids and art supplies? You build a car!
In the box above I have:
A hot glue gun
Pipe Cleaners
Paint
An empty egg carton
Star cut outs
Scissors
Round make up applicators
Styrofom or paper plates
A Shower curtain
The first thing I did was hot glue the shower curtain to my tile floor.
This made for easy clean up and the hot glue did not damage my tile at all.
Next I put some paint on a plate and let the kids apply it with the make up applicators.
They are kids and are going to make a mess but I find the applicators are easier to hold than paint brushes and you can throw them away after.
While the paint dried I had the kids get started on coloring the wheels. The then put a star on each wheel. For the steering wheel I used the glue gun to melt a hole in the Styrofoam plate and use a pipe cleaner to secure it.
We put the plate inside the box and pushed the pipe cleaner through the box.
Egg cups from the egg carton were cut out to make headlights and yellow tissue paper was glued inside. They were secured to the front of the box using a hot glue gun.
We used stars and pieces cut from a recycled box for the tail lights.
The kids loved this activity and they still play with their car weeks later.
Melanin Taught 