Drive-In Movie Car Tutorial!

HELLO Momma's Kinda Crafty readers!!! I am Angela, the voice behind Love Sweet Love, and I am super-duper EcStAtIc to be doing a guest post for the fantastic Joy today! She has the cutest blog (as you already know) and it is such a privilege for me to be making an appearance on one of the first blogs I ever followed!

I use my little corner of the blogging universe to share my creative ideas that involve easy DIY projects for the home, craft ideas for kids, thrift store makeovers, and holiday decorating (the reason I started blogging!). My life is over-flowing with Sweet Love and I needed a place to share it!!

In honor of being on a FuN momma blog I wanted to do an easy, FuN tutorial for all you momma's!! Your kids will LOVE this. Which in turns mean they'll love you, which in turn means you'll love me. See how this is a win-win for us all?! I present to you the Drive-In Movie Car, perfect for fun summer night entertainment!

The great thing about this project is that it can be as simple or as fancy-shmancy as you want it to be! All you need to start is a cardboard box!


We (mr. sweet love and I) decided we wanted the car to have a little "hood" of sorts as you can see above, so we cut a separate, small strip of cardboard, folded down the edges of the board to make a table-top shape, and hot glued those edges to the inside of the box.


And since these fun little cars will be
hounded
played with by toddlers we thought it might be good to give it a little extra piece of support by hot gluing another piece of cardboard under the "hood" and to the front of the box like so:


Had our box been a typical brown box I wouldn't have painted it, but the only box we had was white and yellow with writing all over it, so I decided to give it a quick coat of Rustoleum's semi-gloss white spray paint. A perfect canvas!


Next I added wheels using paper plates lightly spray painted black.


And Mr. Sweet Love added a tail pipe using a roll of toilet paper spray painted silver and then cut in half.


And what drive-in movie would be fun without snacks?! With kids that's a definite MUST, so I added a snack box to the side of the car using the bottom porion of a baby wipes container (I spray painted mine red but you could totally leave it white!) and attached it using office clips.


The only thing left is to go to town decorating the front in whatever car style you can come up with! I used a black marker to draw on the designs and can lids for the headlights.


And just to personalize them for the kids (my kids love to see their name everywhere! ha ha!) I added some quick license plates to the back with their name and age using cardboard wrapped in foil and then hot glued to the box!


Toss in a fluffy pillow and a comfy blanket, and you're ready to throw a movie up on the projector outside (or inside!!) and have a fun family movie night!






Now go have yourself a WHEELY good time in your DIY drive-in car!

Thanks for letting me take over your blog today Joy, I've had SO much fun being here! You're welcome to visit me anytime over at Love Sweet Love, it makes me giddy happy to meet new friends!

Love it, Angela!  What a fun idea I am sure the kids will love!  Thanks for sharing with us today!