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Summary: The top on a children's craft shoe box wagon is glued first and acts as a base. Find out why gluing the top on to a shoe box wagon is done first with expert tips in this free arts and crafts video.
"So the first thing we want to do is attach the top of the shoe box to the bottom. And it's going to act as a base. The reason why we're doing this is because we're going to be taking our wooden sticks for the axle, and we're going to be placing them through the top of the shoe box. So we cover the shoe box with glue, and we give it a nice coating making sure that it goes all over. It doesn't have to be a thick coating. You want to make sure you cover all the points. So we give it a nice strong push down, and make sure that it's, the glue covers all the areas and that it dries nice and secure before we attach anything to the box, to the shoe box. When it's turned over, you can see that that's why we have the extra space where the lid is, now we can see more clearly where those wooden sticks are going to go through. So the, so it will act as like an axle, and it won't have to interfere with the inside of the shoe box. It will just be right underneath the inside of the show box because that's where you're going to want to put things inside. So now I've showed you how to attach the top of the shoe box to the bottom."
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