Q&A for How to Make a Cardboard Car

Yes! You might have to make the car a bit bigger. For the trunk, just cut out a little bit of the cardboard to make the door and make sure the bottom part is sturdy enough to hold items. I also recommend you use sticky tack or tape to make sure the trunk stays closed.

About 15 to 40 minutes (or longer), depending on the size of the car you want to make and your artistic experience.

Yes, you can. This just means that the car will be bigger and you would probably have to work a little bit harder.

You could, but it may be harder. You would have to make sure you glue it really good.

You can use cardstock or a cardboard shirt box from a department store in a thickness similar to paper plates.

Yes; it will be nice if you do that.

They will but possibly not as smoothly as you'd like. Try using some kind of clay or sticky tacks to hold the wheels in place.

If you just want wheels that spin better so the car goes by itself a little after you give it a push, you can use something harder and sturdier, like peanut butter jar lids, for the wheels. If you want a car that moves completely by itself, that would generally require some electric components and would be a bit complicated to make. How to Build a Robot Car has instructions for making one of those.

Just make the cardboard car a bit bigger. That's all.

Use a round thing to stencil out the shape, then cut it out. Use a pencil to stick a hole through the middle.

Follow the instructions listed in the article above. You can add the checker pieces after.

Any kind would do. It would be smart to use thicker boxes, but it really doesn't matter.

You'll have to push it.

No, nowhere in the article does it say you need to use a TV box. Just any large enough box.

Yes, but you need a big cardboard box that can fit your width and is comfortable for your legs.

Yes! You might have to make the car a bit bigger. For the trunk, just cut out a little bit of the cardboard to make the door and make sure the bottom part is sturdy enough to hold items. I also recommend you use sticky tack or tape to make sure the trunk stays closed.

You can make the car out of any box you happen to have lying around. It could be a tiny model car, or a car big enough for you to sit in!

Yes, you can use the water bottle as the main car and the lid as wheels. Empty the water out of the bottle, then get the inside of 2 pens and attach to them to 4 bottle lids as wheels. Glue the inside of the pens to the bottle. Wait for it to dry then decorate the way you want.

Make it so the wheels are farther away from the car itself. Instead of using hot glue to connect the skewer, make a hole in the middle of the wheels. Make it big enough that it can roll. Then do the same method to put it on the car, and you should be able to move the car.

About 6 inches long, but you can make it however large you like. If you prefer, you can make it giant, like the big blue car, but as a model.