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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 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:

bulletrectangular box (tissue paper or shoe box) -- we used a tissue box
bulletconstruction paper
bulletmarkers
bulletscissors
bullettape or glue

 

Directions:

bulletWrap the box completely with construction paper (we used brown).
  
bulletTrace a small circle (we used a vitamin bottle) four times on black construction paper.
 
bulletGlue the circles onto the box as wheels.
 
bulletOptional:  Use markers to draw a Western type picture on another piece of construction paper (or use stickers or sparkles).
 
bulletTape the decorated construction paper in an arch over the shoe box.

 

 

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