Macaroni-mobile

What You’ll Need:

• marker and pen
• pasta box
• scissors
• construction paper
• glue or tape
• paint
• small plastic cap
• corrugated cardboard
• straws or unsharpened pencils

How to Make It:

1. Draw a rectangle around the see-through window on the front of a pasta box. Cut along three sides of the rectangle, as shown. Fold up the rectangle on the uncut side to form a windshield.

2. Decorate the box with paper glued or taped in place, or paint the box.

3. Trace a small plastic cap onto corrugated cardboard, making four circles for wheels. Cut out the circles, and use a pen to poke a hole in the center of each. Paint the circles.

4. Poke two holes in each side of the car where the wheels will be attached.

5. To make the axles, push a straw or an unsharpened pencil through the holes near the back of the box and another through the holes near the front.

6. Put a wheel over each axle of the four ends. Wrap several layers of tape around the ends of the axles to keep the wheels from falling off.

7. Add headlights, taillights, and a steering wheel made from plastic caps or from paper. Glue a short piece of straw under the rear of the car as a tailpipe.