The Cardboard Bus

A bit ago Isabel and I had lots of fun creating this Cardboard Bus and decorating it with colourful  leftover fabric from sewing projects.

This is how we proceeded:

We took a cardboard box suitable to be transformed in a bus for Isabel´s dolls and plush friends.

We cut out the windows and the door and we created bench seats for the passangers, a seat for the driver and a dashboard using cardboard pieces.

We were lucky because we found a lid of another cardboard box spot-on for being our bus top.

Eeyore is doing a test drive                                                                                    

Isabel glued the fabric remnants to the bus and the seats.

For the wheels we used a camembert box.

We cut it in two halves and Isabel painted it with grey and black acrylic paint.

The finished wheels and a magazine picture of a car dashboard:  

Next we attached the wheels to the bus´ bottom side. We used glue and a Staple Gun Tucker

 – just to be on the safe side. We fixed a cardboard support as well, because the wheels

alone are not able to carry the weight of the bus.

We glued the dashboard picture.

 

the numberplate:

We used a tea light as headlight.

Snoopy is the driver.

 The travellers´ first trip with the Cardboard Bus - Bon Voyage !

The idea for this cardboard bus I took from Sabine Bohlmann´s beautiful book

 “ Lauter tolle Mädchensachen” 

http://www.sabinebohlmann.com/schreibhaus/ratgeber/lauter-tolle-m%C3%A4dchensachen/

Unfortunately it´s available in German language only. But most of the projects you can easily understand thanks to the number of pictures in the book.