Cardboard Tube Biplane Set

Posted 2013-09-04 by Mina Keenan ⇒ follow

Grab those cardboard tubes for another recycling project - the Cardboard Tube Biplane. These would great in a little (or not so little) boy's room.

Art and Craft Supplies

cardboard tubes

paint

scissors

marker

white or tacky glue

thin card

corrugated card

two bottletops

two beads

awl

skewers or toothpicks

Method

Cut out cardboard pieces as indicated on the printout. Use thin cardboard for the rudder and propeller. Use corrugated cardboard for the wings and front and back of the biplane.

For the front and back of the biplane, I cut the cardboard pieces larger, then trimmed them to tube size once they were stuck on.

Biplane pieces

Paint up your cardboard pieces. Paint bottletops black - these will be the wheels.

Mark out the cockpit

Make a cockpit - marking the tube as shown. Cut along the black lines and fold up the tabs for the windscreen and aviator's seat.

Cockpit

Glue the front and back circles to the tube to 'close' the plane up.

Front of biplane

Glue a bead to the front of the plane. Glue the propeller to the bead.

Wings

Line up the wings and glue them to the top and bottom of the tube as shown. Use a thick strip of glue down the middle of the plane.

Struts

Make two holes on each end of the top wing with an awl or other pointy tool. Push skewers through the holes and into the bottom wing. Trim skewers with scissors.

Turn the biplane upside down and glue the wheels to the bottom wing - under the tube - for strength.