How to Build a Coconut Cart

A coconut offers a delicious snack.

There few drinks more refreshing than an ice-cold, fresh coconut full of delicious coconut milk. An enterprising person can form a decent business by taking coconuts prepared for drinking down to the beach or lakeside, and selling them to sweltering sunbathers. Creating a special cart to transport the coconuts and decorating it to advertise exactly what you are selling will make the business more successful.

Things You'll Need

• Shopping cart
• Beach umbrella
• 2-foot-by-3-foot section hardboard
• Coconuts
• Palm leaves
• Tough craft knife
• String
• Paint
• Jubilee clips
• Pram wheels
• Screwdriver
• Wire mesh
• Tin snips
• Coconut matting
• Paint brush
• Glue
• Buckets
• Hammer
• Nail
• String

Instructions

1. Remove the wheels from the shopping cart and replace with thicker pram wheels if you plan to push the cart on soft surfaces such as sand. Join the umbrella's shaft to the side of the cart using jubilee clips.

2. Place the cool box you plan to use for the coconuts into the basket of the cart. Fix it in place by joining the handle to the body of the cart with jubilee clips.

3. Paint a sign on the hardboard including a creative name for your business, a slogan and the price of the coconuts, and then decorate the sign with coconuts and palm leaves. Cut some narrow holes in the sign, slip jubilee clips through the holes and secure the sign to the shaft of the umbrella. Punch the eyes out of a few coconuts with a hammer and nail, and thread string through the coconuts in order to hang them from the umbrella or from the cart.

4. Cut two 6x9-foot-square sections of mesh using the tin snips. Fold them in half and bend them into dome shapes that can fit around the sides of the cart. Place the domes on either side of the front of the cart in a way that overlaps and creates a coconut shape; make sure that the cooler remains accessible. Secure the domes in place by twisting the wire mesh around the bars in the side of the shopping cart.

5. Use the paint brush to paint the back of the coconut matting with glue. Stick the matting over the mesh. Allow to dry.

6. Secure two buckets to the back of the cart with string. Use these for a hammer and nail to take along with you for punching out the eye of the coconut and placing a straw in it for drinking.

References

• Soda Junction: Cocanut Cart