Junk modelling

This soda bottle rocket is easy to make and fun to play with afterwards. An upcycled junkmodelling craft for kids

How adorable is this little toilet roll robot craft? they're so simple to make and each one turns out beautiful and unique!

Old junk is a great material for crafting with, toilet rolls, cereal boxes, egg cartons right through to empty bottles, old CDs and I’ve featured one craft below that is…

Recycled Crafts: Robot Junk Modelling How to make your own robot out of cereal boxes and other junk destined for the bin #robot #robotcraft #junkmodelling #crafts #junkcrafts

How to make a junk model robot

egg box dragon craft - great for chinese new year, great junk model craft

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How do you get kids interested in making models? I'm a dad. I've got a four year old daughter. And I want to share my hobby with her. Partly it's so I can spend time with her and show her what I love about model making. Partly it's so she can (hopefully) develop a hobby or interest that is real-world, away from digital screens. Mostly it's because when I was a kid this hobby gave me a huge amount of pleasure, and I hope she can experience that too. If she doesn't grow up to be a model-maker…

An oil rig - whatever next?! It was completely unexpected and I'm still laughing that we pulled it off. Cakey the Queen of Questions spotted a tub of vaseline on the table during breakfast that I was using to sooth my sore nose from a nasty cold. "What's that?" she asked. From the deep depths of my memory I told her how vaseline was first produced as a by-product on oil rigs. The oil rig workers used the unrefined version to sooth cuts and burns. I suggested we check my story on the computer…