How to make a beautiful farm tractor from cardboard.

Cute farm tractor craft for children

Let’s make a farm tractor! This craft uses just a piece of cardboard ad your regular craft tools and materials. Allow for about two hours to create this piece. Adult supervision is required. Let’s get started.

How to make a tractor from cardboard

Steps.

  1. Cut out a rectangular card about 3×6 inches wide.
  2. Cut out four circles: 3.5inch, 2.5inch (2x), and 1.5inch in diameter. This does not need to be exact. Please trim circles to fit.
  3. Cut out a piece of L-shaped cardboard for the exhaust pipe
  4. Cut out five pieces of toothpicks or skewers, each about 1inch long. We will use these for the strips on the engine and also for the steering wheel.
  5. Make tiny groves on the biggest circle to add a character to the large back tire.
  6. Time to paint them. Children love to paint so allow for their creativity and let them express themselves freely. Before you paint, arrange the pieces to get a sense of what will be where and what to paint what!
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Put them together.

  1. Trim off a strip off the rectangular card, about halfway to fix the steering wheel. 
  2. Glue the exhaust and the toothpick strips.
  3. Fix the tires.

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