An Arts and Crafts Activity
Extracting our son from the driver’s seat of our car proved to be one of the greatest parenting challenges we had ever faced. Life became easier when we gave him his own dashboard.
Materials Required:
- Cardboard box
- Plastic container lids
- Bottle caps
- Brads
- Crayons and markers
- Cardboard tubes
Instructions:
Extracting our son from the driver’s seat of our car proved to be one of the greatest parenting challenges we had ever faced. Life became easier when we gave him his own dashboard.
You can make a dashboard, too.
Find a sturdy cardboard box at least eighteen inches wide.
Next, attach parts – lots of them. (Here comes the payoff from saving all those plastic lids and odd-sized plastic gizmos .)
Punch a hole in the top of a yogurt container, and affix it to the box with a brad (a pronged metal affixer you can purchase at any stationery store).
You now have a free-spinning dial. Put markings on the dial and the box to make a meter.
Affix a paper plate the same way-the dashboard now has a steering wheel.
A paper towel tube makes a splendid gear shift lever, and bottle tops make excellent buttons.
The more dials and buttons and moving parts, the more interesting the dashboard.
Be sure to leave a slot for a key!
We used ours in the car at first, then found that the dashboard can be used for off-road travel, too.
Your child can use the dashboard to explore the depths of the ocean, or even the outer reaches of the galaxy.
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