How to Turn a Kid's Wagon Into a Pirate Ship

Transform a wagon into a pirate ship by recycling items such as scrap fabric and cardboard rolls.

If you have children who want to explore the high seas, help them without leaving dry land. Transform a traditional red wagon into a pirate's ship with a few simple craft materials that you may already have on hand at your house. Be creative and resourceful. Allow your children to take ordinary objects and transform them into props for the ship.

Things You'll Need

• Poster board
• Foam board
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Cutting mat
• Utility knife
• Markers
• Hot glue sticks
• Hot glue gun
• Wooden dowel
• Scrap fabric
• Pirates flag
• Red bandannas
• White mesh laundry bag

Instructions

1. Place a piece of poster board or foam board on a flat workspace, such as a table. Draw a freeform semicircle from the top left corner to the top right corner of the board with a pencil.

2. Cut out the semicircle with a pair of scissors. If you are using foam board, use a cutting mat and a utility knife. This is the hull of your ship. Draw and cut a second hull.

3. Decorate the hulls with markers.

4. Hot glue one hull on each side of the wagon.

5. Glue a bare gift wrap roll inside the wagon at the back. This is your mast.

6. Glue tattered scraps of fabric along the vertical seam of the gift wrap roll to mimic the tattered sails of a pirate ship. Hot glue a pirate's flag at the top of the gift wrap roll.

7. Tie or glue a white mesh laundry bag off one of the sides of the wagon. This is your pirate's fishing net.

8. Tie red bandannas around your children's heads. They are ready to set sail.

References

• Disney Family; Jack Sparrow's Bandana; Cindy Littlefield