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How to Make a Mini Skatepark

Miniature skateboards, also known as tech decks, are skated by hand, placing two fingers onto the board in place of where a skater's legs and feet would be on a standard board. A mini skate park allows you to have the experience of taking your fingerboard to a park as if it was a full-sized board, complete with grind rails, jump ramps and quarter pipe ramps. Building your own mini skate park is cheaper than buying ramps from a store, and it allows you to reuse items like cereal boxes you would otherwise throw out.

Things You'll Need

Large cardboard box
Pencils or pens
Coat hanger
Cereal boxes
Paper
Wire hanger
Wire cutters
Bowl
Tape
Hot glue
Paint

Instructions

- 1
  Remove the ink tip and rear cap of pens to yield a tube, creating rails for the park. Or, tape tubular, unsharpened pencils together lengthwise for the same effect.
- 2
  Cut along the corners of a cardboard cereal box. Press the cut ends down and tape in place to create quarter pipes. The slits cause the sides of the box to curve out when pressed down to make the ramps.
- 3
  Place flat objects, such as empty CD cases, into your mini park to create raised ledges to grind.
- 4
  Tape or glue a piece of stiff paper to two fixed, elevated points to create a half pipe. The anchor points need to be closer together than the length of the paper.
- 5
  Cut sections of wire hanger the same length as as the top of your ramps. Glue along the top edges of the ramps to add coping to grind.
- 6
  Place a bowl in your park, with raised edges around it, to create a pool to skate. Cutting a hole in the top of a box then placing the bowl within is an easy way to make a pool with areas around it to skate in from.
- 7
  Cut two triangles of cardboard, then a rectangle of cardboard with sides equal to the long side of the triangles. Glue the pieces together to make triangular launch ramps.
- 8
  Paint your park to add a touch of realism.

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