TRANSPORTATION ARTS AND CRAFTS PROJECT IDEAS FOR CHILDREN, including cars, boats, trains, airplanes, vans, buses, truckes, vehicles, shops, & canoes

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Backyard Wooden Boat - It only takes a little bit of imagination to create a small raft to float in your backyard streams.

Bat Antenna Buddy - High-flying fun for your car's antenna this Halloween.

Birch Bark Canoe - Many Native American tribes made finely-crafted birch bark canoes. You can make a small model using construction paper and yarn.

Boat - Make a boat out of an egg carton, clay, and paper.

Box Car Derby - This freeway is so easy to construct, the road will be open to toy traffic in no time.

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Candy Race Car - Make ornaments or decorations using an assortment of candies - a train, a race car, a plane, or a reindeer. These can be hung on trees, tied to packages, or used as decorations on a table.

Candy Train Craft - This candy train is made from a roll of hard candy (like Lifesavers), wrapped peppermint candies, a wrapped caramel, and a wrapped chocolate kiss.

Coke Bottle Rocket - Really neat project to make a coke bottle rocket (parental supervision)

Cotton Reel Racers - Rally neat project making a cotton real racer (parental supervision)

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Dive with a Submarine! - Dive deep into the sea! This model submarine lets you explore what it’s like to live and work underwater.

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Easy Riders - Have fun with these envrionmentally-safe cars and planes that run completely on imagination.

Easy Train Craft - This simple train craft requires a printer, a piece of paper, some crayons (or paint or markers), scissors and glue. 

Egg Carton Dump Truck - Although children Age 3+ will enjoy playing with this craft, it's a bit fiddly to make so I've rated it Age 5+.

Egg Carton School Bus - This is a simple craft for preschool children about to begin school or for young siblings of school age kids.

Egg Shell Ship - With a tissue paper sail, this boat is kitchen sink-worthy (as long as the wind remembers not to blow too hard).

Engineer and his Train - Let your child be an engineer of a train that will surround the child and their wheelchair.

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Fire Truck Box Toy - Children can make these fire trucks to pretend to ride in or to use as a toy box. If you like, you can cut out the bottom of the box (before making the craft) and the children can enter the box, carry it, and walk around pretending to be a fire fighter.

Fire Truck Snacks - Children can make these tiny fire trucks for a preschool or kindergarten treat.

Fly Wright on the Beach - Step back in time to December 1903 when the Wright brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. You and your biplane are there with this diorama!

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Jet Boat - Kids will love being the captain of this balloon-powered jet boat -- perfect for racing in pools, ponds and bathtubs.

Junkmobile - Drive the sturdy, smooth-riding Junkmobile around the neighborhood on regular collection days, or park beneath the Waste Shooter for a quick fill.

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Milk Carton Pirate Ship - This is a really cool pirate ship made from milk cartons.

Milk Carton Spanish Galleon - This is also a really cool ship.

Model Car Factory - Liven up a rainy afternoon by test-driving a fleet of homemade cars.

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Noah's Ark - Materials you will need are a printer, paper (I prefer white construction paper or another heavier paper), scissors, glue, brown paint or markers and a dinner sized paper plate..

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Paddle Steamer - Make your own paddle steamer...The steamer will propel itself across the water. (parental supervision)

Paper Gyrocopter - Take your kids for a spin around the neighborhood with a toy gyrocopter. You can make one in five easy steps.

Puddle Boat - Spring showers set the stage for the type of adventure found only in a big rain puddle -- like setting afloat a toy boat.

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Race Car - This makes a fun party or preschool activity. Children will enjoy making the car and playing a game of Red Light Green Light.

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Simple Ark Template - Print out this simple ark template and let the kids decorate it as they choose.  There are two arks on the template.  You can either fold in half to get a two sided ark or you can cut them apart and make two separate arks

Simple Animal Cracker Noah's Ark - Print out this simple ark template and let the kids decorate it as they choose.

Simple Sailboat Craft - A very easy sailboat made from a plastic lid, a straw, paper, and modeling clay.

Soapbox Truck - Get things rolling on a rainy day with this toy truck project.

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Tadpole Racers - A vehicle made with a marble

The Recycled Space Ship! - Take recyclable objects and turn them into a space ship....

Thomas the Tank Shoebox Train - Make a Thomas the Tank train from a shoebox

Transportation Theme Crafts - This theme page is designed to be a one day theme for younger children... Kind of a mini-theme.

Transportation Arts and Crafts - A page dedictated to transportation crafts

Tin Can Stilts - Make tin can stilts (parental supervision)

Toy Canoe - Like the birch bark canoes built centuries ago by the Indian tribes in New England, this lightweight toy craft cuts quickly and smoothly through water.

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Wooden Stilts - Make wooden stilts (parental supervision)

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