We make a tank of matchboxes with children!

Parents have long noticed the fact that children play better with homemade toys. With them you can play at home, and in the sandbox on the street and not be afraid for the fact that the child will lose these toys or give. So, let's see how to make a tank of matchboxes with your son.

Miniature Tanks

If a child likes to play at a table, then you can make an entire army of small tanks. To make one tank you will need:

• Two matchboxes;
• glue;
• Color paper or white paper with paints;
• scissors;
• A straw from the juice.

We begin to make a tank of matchboxes from the case. Take the box and glue it with green paper. Instead of green, you can use a white sheet, which is painted at the end of the work in the color of khaki with stars and inscriptions. From each edge, glue a strip of black paper, which will mean the caterpillars.

Next, the second box on the first and cut off half to form a cabin. Simultaneously measure the length of the cannon, which you will make from the tube. Now paste the cabin with paper. From the front, carefully make a slot and glue the gun. Now it remains only to decorate the tank: glue the round wheels on the sides of the body, draw a red star on the sides of the cabin. For this technology, make enemy tanks.

How to make a tank of matchboxes of medium size?

For large crafts will need more matchboxes. To make a tank with a height of 8-10 centimeters, you need to take about 30 boxes. We begin to build a combat vehicle with caterpillars and hulls. To do this, put four boxes in a row, put two more rows on them. It will be a single caterpillar, which must be pasted with green paper.

At the bottom, glue the black strip, and the sides and top zadekorirovat black paper, folded in the "accordion." Making a caterpillar from all sides "harmonic" is irrational, since the child will still break it during the game. Side glue circles of black paper or buttons. It's better if the caterpillars are hanging over the wheels. So do the second caterpillar.

You have almost ready a tank of matchboxes. It remains to make a hull and a cabin. Take the three boxes and put them on top of each other. Paste with paper and glue to the caterpillars so that the casing is located in the middle. If this distance between the caterpillars does not suit, then take more boxes.

By analogy with the body you make a cabin of three boxes. From the paper, make a gun and glue it to the cockpit. The last step is to cut out the stars and paste them on the tank.

The most beautiful hand-crafted item: a box of matchboxes

This technology will make a beautiful tank, but make it more difficult.

• Take the first matchbox. Measure out on the wide part a square with a side of 30 mm, and from the side of the near side - 20 mm. Swipe the oblique lines along the sides and cut the boxes through them. On the side of the cut, glue the side.
• At the whole box from one edge push out an internal shelf and on it you put on the made forward part of the case. Look at how many places remain on the other side. From the first part take the inner part and cut according to the made measurements. Insert this part from the other side of the tank. On the front of the body, glue two rectangular blinds.
• Now make a cabin. On the box along the line draw a line that divides the box in half. Then measure 10 mm from each edge. And draw a line. Now, on each side of each edge, draw the diagonal lines so that the trapezoid turns out. Cut the boxes along the trapezoids and along the middle line. Glue to the booth on each side of the wall. On the wall in front, glue the square windows, on each side three round hatches, and on top two rectangular hatches.
• Then attach with the help of the wheel axis and the machine gun.

And finally ...

The tank of matchboxes can be non-ordinary and in size, and in shape and design. The more material you use (cardboard, tubes, rods from handles, markers, buttons, wheels from broken cars, cork, lids from bottles, etc.), the more interesting are the crafts. According to the technologies described above, it is possible to make a tank for the size of a child, that is, a real transport, in which children can climb and lead combat battles.