Last year, my son wanted to be an orange garbage truck so I made him a cardboard Kamaz truck to wear. This year, he wants to be a fire truck. I solicited some ideas on Twitter and thanks to @VW_What, I am going to make him a Rosenbauer Panther 8x8 with yellow Nepali airport livery.
The body will be made of Amazon cardboard boxes. We don't subscribe to Prime anymore so I will have to ask neighbors for them. I'm going to find four small blue flashing lights, two for the cab roof and two next to the headlights. I'm thinking about getting a black PVC pipe and making a boom out of it to fit over the boy's arm. And then some kind of squirter so he can shoot water out of the boom/arm.
I'm trying to figure out how to stencil in the red words onto the yellow body. Should I paint the cardboard yellow, and then just print the red words on a yellow background, and glue the whole thing onto the yellow cardboard?
Do you have any other ideas? This will be a fun project.
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