Cardboard Rocketship

Alabama's Summer Reading Theme this year was "Alabama has a universe of stories". As part of our room decoration, we made a giant rocketship for kids to play and/or read in.

This was made out of a Dryer box from Lowes. Here are some pictures of how it was constructed.

 To get height, the top folds of the box were stood and taped up.

A roof added more height as well.

All seams were reinforced inside the rocket with strips of cardboard and hot glue.

Here's a better picture of the four triangles used for the roof.

After this, I cut out a hole for the window on the front, and an arching doorway on the side.

Getting crisp edges and keeping smooth sides while wrapping it with bulletin board paper was surprisingly difficult.

Wings were added after it was covered.

If you look inside the ship in this picture, you can see where the left wing is attached.

To make the wings as sturdy as I could, I cut 8 inch strips of cardboard and thread them through the rocket ship. One side was hot glued to the wing and the other was folded along glued inside the ship.

There was some flexibility to the wings, but they stood relatively sturdy for the most part..... (until about 2 weeks into the summer....)

Gadgets for the interior.

An insiders view.

Final product.

Doorway and window were reinforced with more cardboard.

I had intended to add more embellishment to the outside and inside, but summer crept up too fast this year and I ran out of time!

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