Egg Carton Construction Trucks
I absolutely love making art with recycled egg cartons! There are so many different and creative things you can create using them! Today I want to share with you how to make excavator construction trucks from egg cartons! (Makes two trucks)
What you’ll need:
1 cardboard egg carton
4 popsicle sticks
glue
cardboard (I used one side of a cereal box)
scissors
Instructions:
Remove lid from egg carton by either cutting along edge or gently tearing from bottom half
Cut the top section in half (hamburger style), setting aside one of the halves to be the base of each truck
Next you will cut two egg holders from the other half, keeping them together. Do this twice.
Glue the two egg holders upside down to the front end of each truck base. This will be the cab/top of your trucks
With your cardboard piece (cereal box or whatever you are choosing to use), cut out 4 circles for each truck. These will be the wheels
If you would like to paint the wheels, this is the time to do so
After any paint dries, glue your wheels to each truck base.
Now for the truck arms! Cut one egg holder or egg dimple in half. Each half will be the bucket of one of the trucks.
For the arms! We got creative and added a upper and lower arm, you can add as many arms as you would like!
For the bottom arm, poked two holes in either end of the bucket piece that we cut out, enforcing the holes where the popsicle sticks came through, with glue. We then attached the other end of the arm to the truck using the same method.
For the upper arm we glued one end of a popsicle stick to another, making one long arm in a 90 degree angle, attaching the bucket piece to the popsicle stick with the same method as above. Connect the other side of the arm to the truck using the same method.
(For each bucket arm, you will need to make another half egg holder piece.)
Paint your creation if you would like! Your excavator could be any color of the rainbow! Ours was yellow!
Let dry and have fun playing with your awesome creation!
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