The last weekend, I was making a cardboard road roller with my kid. I got the instructions form a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKSwnX_tUQ) and my kid and I set out to create something together.
I made some changes to the road roller - like using toilet roll for the front and back wheels. Using regular cardboard instead of the carton cardboard used in the youtube video, and maybe some more changes.
In the youtube video, the person uses a glue gun to join the various parts and I did not have a glue gun. What is a glue gun - a glue gun has two parts, one the gun itself and the second, the glue stick.The glue stick is inserted though the back of the gun and pushed forward using the trigger. On the way out, the gun has a metal nozzle. Oh, and the gun is connected to an electric outlet, this is required to head the nozzle and melt the glue stick as it comes out. The glue stick, to me, looks and feels like some sort of clear plastic substance. As long as it comes out hot from the gun, you can glue things with it. And it becomes hard as useless if you do not use it while the glue is hot. Once the glue cools down it becomes that same plastic. It is efficient to glue two papers but not much for cardboard. This I found out much later.
So, I bought a new glue gun for INR 195 from my local stationery shop. One glue stick for INR 7. The ice cream sticks for INR 2 for 10 sticks. And so on.
The road roller took a considerable amount of time to complete. Much more than I had imagined looking at the youtube video. I think we took almost four hours to ready the craft. We had a lot of distractions in between, but still this was a lot of concentration for a cardboard road roller.
The main problem was the glue gun. The glue just wont join the card boards. The papers were joined easily, but not the cardboards. I would have preferred to use traditional *cols rather then the glue gun. But, my kid was having a lot of fun using and seeing the glue gun in action. So, it was worth it in the end.
Have a look at the final model:
Next, I would like to take on something bigger.
I made some changes to the road roller - like using toilet roll for the front and back wheels. Using regular cardboard instead of the carton cardboard used in the youtube video, and maybe some more changes.
In the youtube video, the person uses a glue gun to join the various parts and I did not have a glue gun. What is a glue gun - a glue gun has two parts, one the gun itself and the second, the glue stick.The glue stick is inserted though the back of the gun and pushed forward using the trigger. On the way out, the gun has a metal nozzle. Oh, and the gun is connected to an electric outlet, this is required to head the nozzle and melt the glue stick as it comes out. The glue stick, to me, looks and feels like some sort of clear plastic substance. As long as it comes out hot from the gun, you can glue things with it. And it becomes hard as useless if you do not use it while the glue is hot. Once the glue cools down it becomes that same plastic. It is efficient to glue two papers but not much for cardboard. This I found out much later.
So, I bought a new glue gun for INR 195 from my local stationery shop. One glue stick for INR 7. The ice cream sticks for INR 2 for 10 sticks. And so on.
The road roller took a considerable amount of time to complete. Much more than I had imagined looking at the youtube video. I think we took almost four hours to ready the craft. We had a lot of distractions in between, but still this was a lot of concentration for a cardboard road roller.
The main problem was the glue gun. The glue just wont join the card boards. The papers were joined easily, but not the cardboards. I would have preferred to use traditional *cols rather then the glue gun. But, my kid was having a lot of fun using and seeing the glue gun in action. So, it was worth it in the end.
Have a look at the final model:
Next, I would like to take on something bigger.
