How to Build a Box Robot

Many children have an imaginary friend when they are growing up. Instead of looking at nothing, you can provide your child with their own box robot. The robot can be used for a neat decoration, toy, or talking piece for family and friends. It is easy to build, and if a lot of detail is put into the robot, then it can come out looking impressive.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Cereal box
• Large box
• Priority mail poster boxes
• Two shoeboxes
• Dryer ventilation tubes (2)
• Duct tape
• Bottle caps
• Markers
• Glue
• Pipe cleaners
• Gloves

Prepare to Build

1. Gather your materials. You can get the poster boxes from the post office for free by just requesting them at the counter. All the other boxes will either have to be bought or donated, but can be easily found.
2. Cut down one side of the cereal box. This is so you can fold the cereal box inside out so the head is all brown like the inside of the box. Tape the box with the inside now folded on the outside.
3. Decorate the cereal box to create the robot face. Use multi-colored markers and glue on a couple of bottle caps for eyes or buttons.
4. Stick a couple of black pipe cleaners in the top of the box so that the robot can have antennas.
5. Decorate the large box that will represent the body of the robot. Glue around six multicolored bottle caps on this section to show a lot of different buttons that the robot has.
6. Write the robot’s name towards the bottom of the body section is a computer like font. Give the robot a name like “Robo-Tron 3000” or something like that.
7. Set the body part straight up on a table top. Duct tape the head of the robot on using four to five pieces of duct tape so that the head is sturdy.

Finishing the Robot

8. Cut a dryer ventilation tube so that there two equal pieces about a foot and a half long.
9. Attach the arms to both sides of the body using duct tape.
10. Attach a glove to the end of each arm using duct tape. Fill the gloves with newspaper so that it looks like there is actually a hand inside of there.
11. Attach the legs (mailing poster boxes) to the body using duct tape, and then duct tape the shoe boxes to the end of legs to represent the feet. Fill the shoeboxes with a lot of the magazines or newspaper so that the robot can stand.
12. Stand the robot up and add more decorations or begin to play with the robot.

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