***This can easily be used as a fun way to have an in-door family movie night, too!***
There is nothing I love more than friends gathered together having a good time. I wanted to do one more backyard party with the neighbors before summer was officially over, so we threw together a backyard movie party, complete with drive-in cars for the kids. It was a huge hit and something that will become a yearly tradition.
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Materials:
- Boxes big enough for kids to sit in
- Duct tape
- Masking tape
- Posterboard
- Spray paint
- Washi tape
- Small black paper plates or paint white ones
- Yellow construction paper
Instructions:
- Tape over any handle holes in the boxes with masking tape or duct tape. I went to my local grocery store for boxes and asked a worker in the produce department who was happy to share empty banana boxes.
- Cut poster board into rectangles the width of the box and duct tape it onto the box to make a snack holder.
- Spray paint the entire box. We used a couple of different colors so the cars weren't all matching.
- Use colored duct tape and washi tape to decorate.
- Glue 4 paper plates on the box as the wheels.
- Cut circles out of yellow construction paper and tape them on as headlights.
- Print out or draw license plates with the kids' names on them and tape them to the back of the box.
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You now have some fun cars that will make the kids' night! Pop some popcorn, get out some snacks, and put the movie on a screen in the backyard.
Check out our fun video for more specifics on how to make a backyard movie party car!
Gwendolyn Dattage is the publisher of Macaroni Kid St. George, Utah.
