Design Your Own Race Car

crayola supplies

Pointed Tip Scissors
Squeezables Glitter
Squeezables Bold
Model Magic® Fusion™

household supplies

recycled boxes
modeling tools
plastic drinking straws

Why

With Crayola Model Magic® Fusion™, you can customize your own sets of wheels! Whether you make an imaginary or real race car, this project will get your creativity revving.

Steps

1. Begin your car by covering a small box with slabs of Crayola Model Magic® Fusion™ compound. You can make your car realistic or even exaggerated by bending the compound or making some parts really large compared to others.
2. Now to equip your vehicle. Shape the doors, roof, hood, trunk, and sides with bits of compound or modeling tools. Cut pieces with Crayola Scissors for nice clean lines. Smooth out the seams with your fingers. Remember to add details such as a gas cap, door handles, and windshield wipers. Overlap pieces as needed.
3. To make the axles, use drinking straws. Measure and cut two axles so they are slightly longer than the width of your vehicle. Roll equal-sized balls for the tires and flatten. Attach tires to the axles. Turn the car over and attach the axles to the undercarriage with strips of Fusion compound.
4. When your car has all the parts you want, you’re ready to add details. Use Crayola Squeezables™ 3-D Paints to make trim, dots, wheel covers, and even little reflection lines on the "glass" parts.
5. Model Magic® Fusion™ dries to the touch overnight and dries completely in 2 to 3 days. You could make drawings of your vehicle and animate it! Or make a road or racetrack on which to display it. Have your friends make this project with you and invent your own racing team names!

When & Where

"This is a fun project to accompany our motion activities. Children really liked making their own super-fast versions to race through the air!"
- Jose P., hospital school-age activities coordinator.

"We watched an animated movie about racing. Then the kids made vehicles from their favorite scenes to reenact them."
- Lori H., after-school crafts coordinator.

Interesting Info

To animate something is to bring something that is not alive, to life. People often think of cartoons and cartoon movies as animation, but if you give life-like characteristics such as a face or other body parts to an inanimate object, that is animation as well. Try drawing a car with human features!

Safety Guidelines

Squeezables® 3-D Paint— WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children under 3 years. Not for use on skin.

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—

Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Crayola Washable Paints—Not for use as body/face paint.

Modeling Tools—Use the least dangerous point or edge sufficient to do the job. For example, craft sticks, plastic knives and forks, and cookie cutters can cut or carve modeling materials.

Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.