Covered Wagons in My Playroom

We've been reading through the "Little House on the Prairie" series for about a year now.  We're up to book 3, "Liitle House on the Prairie".  The Wonder Kids have been loving listening to the book over lunch.  Since I finally have more energy, we've added some fun along the way.  In the chapters where Pa is building the house, we used Lincoln Logs to build a house as we read.  The boys especially enjoyed that part.  Then they clamored for a covered wagon.  I am not crafty at all so I found a great link on a website and voila-covered wagons.

The base for our covered wagon.

Covering the wagon bottom with brown paper and glue stick.  Or as Boy Wonder #2 calls it, "putting purple on".

Once the brown paper is all glued into place, the "canvas top" gets glued into place.  Boy Wonder #1 chose a red canvas while BW#2 chose a white canvas.  At this point, BW#1 was more interested in piano practice (really more piano banging) so BW#2 finished up both wagons.  Any opportunity to immerse himself in glue stick work makes him happy.

Adding wheels, 2D and 3D.

BW#2 and GW#1 spent the next 30 minutes or so pushing the wagons across the playroom prairie.  They were having a great time until they hit the Island of Sodor and BW#1's train tracks.  Then chaos ensued.  It's probably good Laura Ingalls Wilder never encountered that on her journey westward.  Our covered wagons did not survive multiple train accidents on the bridges. 

Here's the link to the covered wagon craft.