Cassie came home from her preschool the other day with a Great project----a car made of recycled boxes, containers, and lids. I knew that we had to do this again....so today we did! Here is one of our cars. We added in some of our recycled tube people that we made a while back----they seemed to fit right in! Cassie had such a
fun time playing these cars-----as you'll see in the last pictures!
So we started out with all these boxes, tubes, containers, and lids. Where to begin??? We actually had more stuff under the table too! Yikes!
So we sorted out some the items. All items that could be used for wheels or movement:
Items that could be used for the main parts of the car:
We used other items like: paper cups, straws,, yogurt containers, and bottle caps for details. Use your imagination!
To construct the car, we began with the main part of the car and began to glue. You could use tape, glue, or a supervised glue gun. The reason I say glue gun, is because I just saw a post at
The Artful Parent blog interviewing
Teacher Tom about "child led learning" and one of the topics was letting children use glue guns! He also discussed how the glue gun allowed children to build vertically. I felt inspired by this, so I thought (very nervously) I would let Cassie have a hand at using a glue gun (sigh). Here she is in action! This glue gun was difficult to use----the trigger kind would be much more user friendly. She did enjoy pushing the glue out though! Children do learn a lot when you let them be independent! Since this particular glue gun was difficult to use, I ended up putting the glue on and Cassie pushed the pieces down!
More pictures----so serious!!
Cassie would choose a piece to add and then we would glue it. We went step by step with the glue gun until we had a finished piece! The glue gun made it easier to build quickly! You could have already torn pieces of tape for children to do this same process too. Most children Love tape so it would not be a problem.
Here is our first car, but later we did cut a hole in the blue styrofoam tray to make a seat for one of our recycled tube people. I'm sure there will be other modifications. Cassie named this the "Roomer Zoomer Airplane Car". Very Dr. Seussish!
Here is our other car: "The Roomer Zoomer Car".
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| Roomer Zoomer Car |
The Roomer Zoomer Car with recycled tube people:
Cassie spent a good half hour playing with these cars!
And then some....
In action!
One happy girl---- proud of her creations!
What are your feelings about painting these creations???
I think they are kind of cool left "as is".
