DIY Drive-In Movie Night
Level:
Advanced
How-To:
Kids
Seasonal Event:
Fall, Summer
MATERIALS:
OPTIONAL TO CREATE SNACK BOXES:
INSTRUCTIONS:
MATERIALS:
- 18” x 24” cardboard box
- Packing tape
- Metal yardstick
- X-acto knife
- Cutting mat
- Scissors
- Paint
- Silver bulletin board border
- Silver cardstock
- 10” black plastic plates
- 8” silver plates
- Red candy balls, 2 to make 1 car
- Printed grill template (Download here)
- Print of child’s name for license plate
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Fabri-tac
- Spray adhesive
- Silver tape
OPTIONAL TO CREATE SNACK BOXES:
- White snack box
- Red tape
INSTRUCTIONS:
- While the box is still flat, cut the top flaps off with an x-acto knife. This makes for a very straight cut, if you want you can use scissors, but it is more difficult. Tape the bottom of the box together.
- Paint the box. Allow to dry.
- Create the bumpers by cutting the bulletin board border to appropriate length, make the front bumper long enough to wrap around the sides a few inches. Round the top corners of the front bumper with scissors.
- Attach the bumpers with hot glue.
- To create the headlights and taillights, unscrew the candy balls and use fabri-tac to glue the clear half to a silver plate for the headlights and the red half to the silver plate for the taillights. Allow the glue to dry.
- To create the tires, apply fabri-tac to the edges of the silver plate and place it face down on an upside-down black plate. Repeat until you have four tires.
- Use hot glue to attach the headlights and taillights since you won’t see through the candy ball halves it doesn’t matter if the plate melts a bit.
- Use fabri-tac to attach the tires. Flip the box on its side and allow the glue to dry before attaching the tires on the other side.
- Print and cut out the grill template, trace it onto silver cardstock and cut out with an x-acto knife. (Download grill template here)
- Use spray adhesive to attach the grill on the face of the car above the bumper.
- Attach the license plate with spray adhesive on the backside of the car.
- Cut a thin piece of the silver bulletin border and use hot glue to attach the license plate cover overlapping the top edge of the license plate just a little.
- Use silver tape to finish the top edge of the box.
- If you want to create the snack boxes, use red tape to stripe the box.
- Repeat steps 1-13 to create as many cars as you like, set up your movie night and enjoy!
