Children's Crafts: Shoe Box Wagon Axle

Video Transcript

"Now, I'm going to show you how to make the markings on the box, so we know where exactly to place the wheels, that we've made. What we want to do, is we want to make sure that the round circle of the disks, is going to be sitting on the base of the box. The base of the box is going to be the top of the shoebox, that we glued together, in a previous step, so we want to make sure that that is going to be, that it's going to sit on that area of the bottom of our wagon. And we're going to place the, line up the circle to the bottom, and make a ring with a marker, in the spot, where the center of the disks should be, and we'll go ahead and do that on each corner of the wagon, where the wheels are going to be placed, and once we have the mark made. We can go ahead and make a hole, using a sharp object, and the hole should be big enough, so that the wooden stick should be able to go through. Once the hole is made, you can just put it straight through, until it reaches the other side, so just be careful not to break the stick. We'll go ahead and do that on both sides, and where the stick comes out, where it reaches the other side. That is going to be where we're going to make our hole, for the opposite side, so this way, we know that it's going to line up properly, because we can just bring the sticks down, until they're nice and straight, and then we can go ahead and make a mark on the other side, and then, we can make our holes as well, over there, and then bring the sticks all the way through. That's one thing you might want to make sure of, before you go ahead and start your project, that your sticks and your shoebox line up. In other words, if the sticks will be able to reach the other side, and you'll have enough excess room, so you'll be able to put the disks, which are going to be the wheels, on to the ends of the stick. Once the sticks are in, there should be enough room on the ends, to put the wheels, and also the stick should have enough space in the hole, that they should be able to spin around. So just make sure that the hole that the sticks are going into, is wide enough that there can be some movement there, so now I've showed you how to line up the holes on the wagon, so that we can go ahead and place the wheels, and line them up properly."