Cardboard Robot Collage

Lately, we’ve been making all kinds of crafts with materials from around the house. This cardboard robot collage is guaranteed to be a hit! I love this kid’s craft because it works well for all ages, and you can customize it with literally anything you have on hand.

This is a fun project to do as a boredom buster at home, and it’s also perfect to do with a class or group. I think a whole bulletin board full of robots would look amazing!

Supplies Needed

These are the supplies we used:

• Cereal boxes
• Juice lids
• Beads
• Paper straws
• Cardboard boxes (corrugated cardboard)
• Foil
• Sharpies
• Paper
• Buttons
• Googly eyes
• Corks
• Craft sticks
• Keychain rings
• Paint
• Glue

Other suggestions:

• Junk mail – cut out letters and numbers, etc.
• Fabric scraps
• Stickers
• Craft foam
• Construction paper or scrapbook paper
• Foam trays
• Egg cartons

Step 1: Cut out the front panel of a cereal box. Paint it a solid color.

We used acrylic paint for this, and we chose bold colors that would provide good contrast with the cardboard.

Step 2: Design your robot. Lay out all pieces before gluing!

For the robot above, I used segments of paper straws (regular straws will work too!) to make the legs.

It really is best to lay out your entire robot before gluing. This is especially true for younger kids. The robots in this post were designed by myself and my 13, 10, and 8 year old sons. My 8 year old needed a little help gluing, but otherwise all three of the boys did this project independently. The finished robots are so cute!

For the foil parts, we cut out cardboard in the shapes we wanted and then wrapped it with foil.

This next one might be my favorite, although it’s hard to choose! My son used strips of cardboard for the antennas. He colored them with a Sharpie.

This last one was mine.

Have fun designing some robots!

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