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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects > Crafts with Boxes >How to Make Traveling Circus Animal Cages
WIth this craft, an entire traveling circus, carnival, or zoo can be made if you have enough of these cages for all the animals. They aren't very hard to make and they look great when completed. The base is made with a matches box and the bars on the cage are made with toothpicks. The wheels are made with cardboard wheels and pushed in with pins.
Sliding drawer matches box
Scissors
Box
Glue or paste
Toothpicks
Pins
Paints & brush
Crayons
Thin cardboard
Tiny toy animals
Paper
(1) Remove the sliding drawer from the matchbox and give the matches to your parents as you will not need them. You may also discard the matchbox cover.
(2) Paint the matchbox drawer inside and out, and allow it to dry thoroughly.
(3) Glue a row of toothpicks inside the box on all 4 sides to make the bars of the cage.
(4) Cut out 4 tiny circles of thin cardboard for the wheels and paint them a bright color. Allow them to dry.
(5) Attach the wheels to the cage with straight pins. Push the pins through the center of the wheels and bend the pins inside the box so that the wheels won't slip off.
(6) Place a tiny toy animal in the cage.
(7) Cut a piece of white paper a little larger than the cage for an awning. Make stripes on the awning with paints or crayons.
(8)Place the awning over the toothpick bars, forcing the tips of the toothpicks through the paper.
(9) Add 2 toothpick handles and the cage is ready to roll.
