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How to Build a Toy Car Workshop

High-quality vehicle repair and maintenance is conducted by expert toy mechanics at a car workshop fashioned from a sturdy cardboard box. Separate bays for engine work and tire replacement will cater to every motor need. A counter is ready for service and a cozy-customer waiting area offers comfortable seating and a toy-sized television set. The entire workshop is sized to comfortably accommodate standard toy cars, toy service workers and toy customers.

Things You'll Need

Cardboard box, approximately 3-feet long, 3-feet wide and 2-feet high
Masking tape
Ruler
Scissors
Poster paint
Paintbrush
Empty spools
Poster board
Air drying clay
Oven

Instructions

- 1
  Cut off the top of the box and reinforce all box seams with masking tape for strength.
- 2
  Place the box open side down and cut out a large garage door-sized opening in the front of the box, approximately 28-inches high and 18-inches wide. Cut out a door-sized opening, approximately 15-inches high and 8-inches wide next to the garage door.
- 3
  Paint the entire outside of the box the color of choice and paint a sign over the garage door, for example, "Will's Garage," or "Sue's Engine Repair Shop."
- 4
  Create car lifts with the empty spools.
- 5
  Make a service counter with a 6-inch strip of 2-inch wide poster board folded every 3-inches lengthwise in an upturned "U" shape.
- 6
  Make chairs from 3-inch strips of 1-inch wide poster board folded every inch in an "h" shape. Tape a 1-inch square section of poster board to the back of the chairs for the bottom left section of the "h" shape.
- 7
  Make a toy television set to measure 1-inch, by 1-inch by 1/4-inch from the air drying clay. Paint a scene on the television set with the poster paint.

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