Easy Toddler Crafts

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Earth Day Electric Car Craft

Supplies Needed

Finished Craft

Supplies Needed: Two Toilet Paper Rolls - Small Food Box - Twisty-Tie - Popsicle Stick

This year, 2011, for Earth Day we decided to create some crafts to promote the importance of reusing. In honor of the importance of reusing this craft does not require you to purchase anything for it and all of the materials used in it are things that people usually throw away. This car can be any kind of car that you and your child want, although it was given the title of electric car since these cars are better for the environment.

Step 1: Carefully use the Popsicle stick to poke a hole in the center of both of the toilet paper rolls. Also carefully, poke a hole in the center of the bottom of the box that you are using for the electric car craft using the twisty-tie. You do not have to feed the twisty-tie into the box yet but your child can go ahead and insert one side of the Popsicle stick in one of the toilet paper rolls and insert the other side of the Popsicle stick in the other toilet paper roll. This will create the wheels of your electric car.

Step 2: Although poking the holes can be difficult for your child he or she can help with this step. Have your child help you carefully wrap the twisty-tie a couple of times around the center of the Popsicle stick. If you find it easier you can wait to insert the Popsicle stick until you secured the twisty-tie in the center. It works best to have the twisty-tie twisting at the center so that there is plenty of it left over after wrapping it around the Popsicle stick for when you insert it into the small box, part of the next step.

Step 3: Feed the twisty-tie through the hole that you poked in the small box. Spread the two ends of the twisty-tie apart once you have both of them in the box. This is the basic structure of your car. If you are wanting a more traditional car design, you can put a small box on the top of the first box and secure it by poking the twisty-tie ends through both boxes and spreading them apart in the top box. You can use food stickers, such as from your fruit, to decorate the car as a food delivery struck or add outdated stamps or postal labels to make it a mail truck.