To make one at home you'll need the following, or similar:
- 3 small cereal boxes
- 3 toothpaste boxes
- 1 cling film roll, cut in half
- tape
- decorating materials - they used felt, foam and stickers for clothes and pipe cleaners for hair
- children's glue
- some wool
- some brown paper
Using brown tape to secure them in place they used 2 of the toothpaste boxes as legs, 1 of the cereal boxes as the head and one as the body.
To make the arms they got a grown up to make two holes, one each side of the body cereal box, to fit the cling film roll that had been cut in half. They secured them into the holes by using tape. It looked like this:
To make the arms they got a grown up to make two holes, one each side of the body cereal box, to fit the cling film roll that had been cut in half. They secured them into the holes by using tape. It looked like this:
They then clothed the robot by cutting and glueing bits of felt and foam and sticking them, using glue, onto the arms, body and legs. To make the hair they stuck pip cleaners into the top of the cereal box head. They used all sorts of pretty colours such as gold, silver and blue. They then put stickers on to make him look really great and made sure that he had lovely twinkling eyes, a nose and a big smile.
They then decided as he looked like such a rock robot that they should make him a guitar.
To do this they wrapped the remaining cereal box and the remaining toothpaste box in brown paper and stuck them together using the tape.
To make guitar strings they cut 3 lengths of wool the same length as the guitar and attached them using tape. They got a grown up to cut two rectangles of brown paper which they glued on top of each end of string to hide the tape.
To make the guitar strap they cut a long piece of wool, folded it in half and taped one end onto the edge of the kitchen table. They then twisted the wool again and again until it made a lovely cord. They attached each end of the cord to each end of the guitar using tape. To complete they hung the guitar around the robot's neck and he was ready to rock!
The final thing to do was to give him a name, the 4 year old and Snuggles decided on 'Vin the Rock Robot'!
Do you think you could have a go at making your own 'rock robot'? perhaps yours could be a drummer or a singer and then we could start a band!!
We would LOVE to see photos of your completed robots so please email them to tarasmusicmagic@gmail.com
We will choose a handful of our favourites and if we can form a band the winning band members will win FREE copies of Tara's Music Magic 'Summer Fun' CD and 'Snuggles in Scotland' DVD
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