Vehicles: Create 14 Amazing Cardboard Vehicles

by Fiona Hayes, Christiane Engel

Nothing beats the joy a cardboard box can bring on a rainy day. Want to fly a plane? Get a cardboard box. Want to go to space? Cardboard box. Want to build a castle and hold a jousting tournament? That’s right—you need a cardboard box! Cardboard Creations is bursting full of ideas for how to turn that magical cardboard box into so many exciting playthings. In  Vehicles,  you can build a car to race in or a rocket ship to fly to space in using the simple instructions and full color photos. Like the humble cardboard box, this book will stretch as far as your imagination will allow. What will you build?

48 pages, Hardcover

Published October 15, 2019

Reviews

[Toni · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am the target audience for this book. My toddler is car obsessed. He loves anything related to vehicles, wheels and engines, so this little book is just perfect for him. We started collecting cardboard boxes in summer, while working on projects from another book by Fiona Hayes, and now we can put them to use to make a model city with all sorts of vehicles.
As always, I have to stress how much I appreciate clear instructions and detailed illustrations and focus on safety in craft books. This book does a wonderful job providing these.
You might argue that the topic is too narrow, but the projects presented in the book can be re-created in a variety of colours and sizes, depending on your imagination and willingness to spend quality time with your child.
Thank you to NetGalley and QEB Publishing for the review copy provided in exchange for an honest opinion.

[Etienne · Rating 3 out of 5]

2,5/5. Another book in this collection/series. This time focusing one building vehicles. I like the concept of this series and the ideas behind it all, but , for this one, I just think that too many vehicles are way too similar to one another in the conception of the vehicles and it became very repetitive. I prefer the previous one I read!

[Alexandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice ideas to build out of cardboard. Shows a few tips to make certain edges and accessories. Nice steps shown to help build the vehicle.

[Theediscerning · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two and a half stars, made to look more generous.

A book that seems perfectly fine, and that seems to achieve what it sets out to do, but also one I think is a little redundant. Either that, or the idea that young kids are perfectly happy with a plain cardboard box and their imagination is a most false stereotype. This book aims to make the adult chop up and change several cardboard things every time, in order to create cardboard vehicles – ice cream vans, fire engines, sports cars and so on. The safety guides, instructions and general advice seemed perfectly fine, but I wasn't ever convinced I would want to give it a go. It struck me the projects would take longer to make that they would to be trashed. Still, I'm not the parenting kind – so if you are very much the father who says yes to the request "oh daddy, I really need a cardboard box helicopter – it'll only take a month of Sundays to create and paint to my satisfaction, and I'll then leave it on a wet lawn for a while", then go for it. But don't blame me if the JCB bucket seems a step too far...

[Leah Horton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to make my kids all of the vehicles in this book. My son especially is a huge fan of anything that vrooms. The possibilities are endless for creativity. At the end of playtime you can reuse or recycle the toys. I think it’s a great alternative to expensive plastic toys that break and destroy the environment.

It teaches our kids to use their imagination and to be gentler with the things they’re playing with.

Fantastic idea.