DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Covered Wagon or Chuckwagon Craft

Covered wagons were used extensively during the pioneer times of the United States and Canada to move people and goods west across the prairies of North America.  They were also known as prairie schooners.

A chuckwagon was much smaller.  It carried food and cooking equipment used by cowboys while they were moving cattle on the prairies.  In modern times, chuckwagons are part of a popular rodeo race event.

You can make a horse toilet paper roll craft and a cowboy toilet paper roll craft to accompany this one.

Materials:

• rectangular box (tissue paper or shoe box) -- we used a tissue box
• construction paper
• markers
• scissors,
• tape or glue

Instructions:

• Wrap the box completely with construction paper (we used brown).
• Trace a small circle (we used a vitamin bottle) four times on black construction paper.
• Glue the circles onto the box as wheels.
• Optional:  Use markers to draw a Western type picture on another piece of construction paper (or use the template provided or stickers or sparkles).
• Tape the decorated construction paper in an arch over the shoe box.
• Optional:  We just decorated everything freehand but I've provided a template with a decoration for the cover and four wheels that you can print out and use.

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP  or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Optional template:      color  or  B&W

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