DLTK's Crafts for Kids
School Bus 3D Paper Craft

This craft works well for a "school", "transportation" or "The Wheels on the Bus" theme.

Materials:

• paper,
• printer,
• scissors,
• glue,
• something to color with (if using B&W template)

Instructions:

• Print template of choice (B&W or color).
• Color in the template pieces (B&W version).
• Cut out the template (all around the outside to make one big piece).
• Fold and firmly crease along all of the dotted lines. 
  • The dotted lines should be folded white sides together
  • The dashed line (there's only one) should be folded colored sides together.
  • Don't stress out too much...  It makes sense when you push the bus together.
• Optional:  Before you start gluing, just push the piece together so you understand how it's assembled.  I always like to do this and suggest you do to!  Once the glue gets applied it's a little messier to fix any missed or backwards folds.
• Put glue on all of the light grey tabs -- just a small amount on each tab.
• Assemble your bus, pinching the paper together firmly with your fingers so the glue holds.

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).

Template    (color)   or   (B&W)

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