To hold the folded body together, the wings together, as well as the wings to the body. An Xacto knife would work as well (both affiliate links for your convenience). With body and wings of the airplane cut out, I then cut a slit in the side of the body to slide the wings through. I tend to like to have more child-centered crafts, but this is more about the end product for the child to play with. With the remaining pieces of cardboard, I had enough for the wings (I kept it doubled up) and cut them out. Go ahead and have your child give it a try!īeginner to cutting? Try these cutting activities! If it wasn’t folded over, I would have had Louis cut it out, but I thought this would have been too thick. I just did a Google image search for “airplane silhouette” to get a rough idea of what it should look like.

(This solved both the thin cardboard problem as well as hiding the cereal box writing.)įrom there, I drew a simple outline of the body of the airplane so that the bottom of the airplane sat on the folded line. We cut the flaps off the cereal box and folded it in half so that our pretty coloring was on the outside. I made some judgement calls right there, and you can decide for yourself as well. The other side of the cardboard was cereal box logos and information, not pretty.

(This is surprising to me, as my kids have generally never been a huge fan of coloring.) Turning Our Colored Box Into an Airplane CraftĪt that point, I realized two things that I needed to figure out. We took turns, adding to it until an entire side of the cereal box was colored. We took our time decorating his airplane craft. Instead of coloring them with markers, you could also paint it using any of these methods. ( This set of 100 washable markers, affiliate link, has been fantastic and I couldn’t recommend them more!). Markers have been our choice for art projects lately.

I removed the bag of cereal and opened up the box completely.įind lots of fun Airplane Crafts & Activities here! I don’t have any cardboard boxes sitting around the house right now, so I pulled out a box of cereal. Louis wants to look at the computer, find an activity to do and we go have some fun! How does it work in your house? This seems to be how all our activities have gone lately. He saw this airplane craft used as a party decoration and wanted to make it immediately. As I was collecting some ideas to make an airplane craft, Louis crawled into the chair next to me at my desk.

Basic simple airplane drawing