Children are often attracted to very simple, unpretentious toys, while expensive and more “fancy” items go unnoticed. The thing is that the child is drawn to objects that are made with love. A railroad assembled by you can become such a toy. To make it, you will need cardboard, glue and paints.
It is necessary
- - cardboard;
- - ruler;
- - pencil;
- - scissors / stationery knife;
- - glue;
- - paints.
Instructions
Step 1
Decide how much area the entire building will occupy - railway tracks, stations, landscape elements. Based on this, determine the approximate length of the rails. Cut them out of cardboard. For this, boxes from under furniture or equipment are suitable. Draw strips of the required length on the cardboard. Their width also depends on the overall scale of the building. For example, for a train 10 cm high, you will need 2 cm wide rails. If the piece of cardboard is not large enough, assemble the rails from separate sections. In addition to straight strips, cut several arcuate ones - the railway can be looped or just made a few turns.
Step 2
Paint the blanks with gray metallic acrylic paint. Then cut the sleepers - strips 2.5 cm wide and 8 cm long. On the seamy side of each sleeper, mark with a pencil 3-5 mm from each edge - it is on these points that you will need to lay out the rails. Since sleepers are often made of wood, the top can be painted with brown paint.
Step 3
Lay out the sections of the rails in the desired sequence, then turn them over so that the bottom side is at the top. Using a ruler and pencil, divide the blanks into equal segments. Place sleepers on these marks. Lay them out one at a time, pre-lubricating the intersection with the rails with glue.
Step 4
While the railroad dries up, make a train. It can be depicted in a simplified way - in the form of parallelepipeds. For wagons, use unnecessary cardboard boxes (for example, juice boxes) or glue them yourself. The locomotive can be made up of two boxes - a horizontally located "bow" part is glued to the vertical cockpit. Cover the entire train with paint of the same color. When it dries, glue the wheels to the carriages, connect the composition to each other with cardboard strips. On each carriage, you can draw windows, curtains and even the faces of passengers behind the glass.
Step 5
Make one or more train stations in the same way. Apply a coat of paint to the base box, and then paint the surface with felt-tip pens. The space around the railway can be filled with cardboard silhouettes of trees and village houses, and paper figures of people can be placed next to the station.
