Pick-Up Truck from a Box

I bought my husband a ladder for his birthday and it came in a gloriously huge cardboard box! This time, we created a pick-up truck :)

All I had to do was cut the flaps off the back half of the truck to make a bed.

The flaps on the front half made the hood and side of the cab. I then used the flaps I cut off to make the roof of the cab.

When K got home from Kindergarten, he insisted that we needed a hood ornament. We used the rest of the cut off flaps to make:

• Tires which we painted black and glued foil in the middle for the requisite hubcaps.
• A steering wheel which was attached with a paper clip.
• Mirrors (both side-view and rear-view) were cut with foil glued in the middle to make a shiny/reflective surface.
• An exhaust pipe, again, insisted on by my 5 year old

We painted license plates and lights on the front and back and took it outside for a little drive :).

I’ll be linking up to Works For Me Wednesday, Kids Get Crafty, We Made That Wednesday,   Mom’s Library, What are little boys made of? Clever Chicks Blog Hop, Share it Saturday, Fine Craft Guild, Look What We Did, Pin It Tuesday