Week Seven - Travel - Craft Time

Today we are going to have fun with some car art, juice box boats, a straw car, and (for the intense at heart) an actual rolling car (plus bonus links to build your own paper planes).

For the "car art" all you will need is the toy cars found in your home (if it is anything like mine - found EVERYWHERE in my home), some washable paint, markers, paper and masking tape. You will want to do this in an easily cleanable place (outside is best). Put the washable paint into a paper plate, ride the cars through the paint and make tire track art. You can also tape markers to the back of cars and roll them across the paper. Use different surfaces under the paper for different results.

Inchmark has step by step instructions for juice box boats. You will need an empty juice box with tape over the straw hole, a small wooden skewer, and a water resistant paper (or paper covered in tape - you can decorate the paper and then cover it with clear packing tape for a pretty and waterproof solution).

No Time for Flash Cards has a great fine motor truck craft. You will need straws, paper, marker (for the outline) and glue. You can make this easier (and last less time) if you just cover the outline with straws instead of the whole truck.

The very adventurous will want to try the Marvelous Motor-Car. Brought to you by the folks at SolidWasteDistrict.com (what??!! Seriously, when I first saw this I was stumped as to what was going on over in Indiana - but it is all about recycling and they apparently reprinted a craft found in Creating by Recycling). This car actually rolls - but is probably above the attention span of a pre-schooler. It might be a great option for a dad/kid project.

Last, but not least paper airplanes. Here is a resource that has step-by-step instruction of literally 50 different paper airplane models. Alex's Paper Airplanes has videos on paper airplanes and helicopters.