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Supurr Spooky Greetings Pawesome Pals
Thanks for joining us for Part Five of our Halloween Crafting with Cats Rerun. Mew know we have so much fun making all this stuff and we hope mew enjoy seeing it!
If mew missed any of our previous CWC posts, stop by the Crafting with Cats Page and see all our previous projects, and mew don't have to be an expert in anything to make any of them. Plus, we offer workarounds and no-sew projects for those who don't like to sew.
Previous Halloween Crafting Posts
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The Trick or Treat Monster Truck aka Mog1
Isn't it epic?
What We Used:
3 x cardboard boxes
Non Toxic glue + Glue gun
Black spray paint
Black felt fabric
6 x Plastic jar lids for hub caps
Silver spray paint
Long wooden dowels to strengthen the pick-up bed
Extras:
Hemp rope
Battery operated lights
Reflective stickers
Small round cardboard scratcher for steering wheel mount
Sticky back plastic
Pumpkin stickers
Long play wand with feather and bell for the aerial
Small cardboard reel for steering wheel
Silver paper for side windows
Let's Get Started
3. We cut halfway down on one side of the smaller box.
4. Then we cut out the windowscreen. Leaving the bottom edge attached.
5. 6. & 7. We glued the windowscreen on an angle to the side flaps and cut off the excess. Then, we folded the top edge down and glued it to the edge of the windowscreen.
8. & 9. We used the windowscreen flap to make the nose of the truck and added a couple of pieces of leftover cardboard from the flaps of the shallow box.
10. Next, we cut out the back of the box and opened up the cab.
10. Next, we cut out the back of the box and opened up the cab.
11. 12. & 13. Then, we cut out the end of the shallow box and glued the flaps down, securing the cab to the truck bed.
14. At this point, we decided the top of the cab needed a light bar.
15. 16. 17. & 18. So we created a long narrow box out of some spare cardboard we had in the craft room.
19. 20. & 21. We glued the light bar in place, and this is what our Unimog looked like with no wheels.
19. 20. & 21. We glued the light bar in place, and this is what our Unimog looked like with no wheels.
22. 23. & 24. We cut 12 circles from the remainder of the shallow box flaps and 6 long strips to construct the wheels.
25. 26. & 27. We gently scored the edges of the long strips and carefully cut with scissors to the scoreline, creating lots of little tabs. Then, we gently bent the strips and glued them to the circles, creating the wheels.
28. 29. & 30. We glued the wheels to the Unimog, and this is how it looked.
31. Realising that we needed to add a bit of strength under the chassis so the truck bed didn't sag when we cats got in it, we used some long wooden dowels we had in stock and punched holes through the inner wheels and glued the dowels in place.
32. & 33. This was our finished mog pre-spray shop. Oh, we did add a jerry can, as we thought the back looked a bit flat.
34. 35. & 36. The Unimog went into the spray shop and came out black.
37. & 38. We used some old paper stock to create the number plates and glued them to some small cardboard rectangles.
37. & 38. We used some old paper stock to create the number plates and glued them to some small cardboard rectangles.
39. The Unimog was ready for customisation.
40. & 41. We used some plastic jar tops for the hubs and sprayed them silver.
43. 44. & 45. We used a large piece of black felt to line the inside of the cab floor and truck bed and glued it in place using non-toxic PVA glue.
46. 47. 48. & 49. Deciding that we needed a steering wheel, we found a small cylindrical cat scratcher in the craft room which was purrfect for our needs and just changed the colour on the sides with some sticky back plastic that we had in stock.
46. 47. 48. & 49. Deciding that we needed a steering wheel, we found a small cylindrical cat scratcher in the craft room which was purrfect for our needs and just changed the colour on the sides with some sticky back plastic that we had in stock.
50. & 51. We used a small cardboard reel, leftover from some hemp rope and pulled one end off, and sprayed the remaining part silver and glued it into the existing hole in the scratcher before glueing it to the inside of the cab just below the window.
52. 53. & 54. Next, we added the number plates and silver hubs to the wheels.
55. No Unimog is complete without a tow rope, so we added that next, glueing it under the truck nose.
56. Then, we added the battery-operated headlights and sidelight reflective stickers.
57. Then, we decided it needed a grill, so we used a small rectangle of cardboard and sprayed it silver before adding a pumpkin sticker.
58. & 59. We attached the lights to the light bar and tested them - EPIC!!!!!
60. 61. & 62. Using some silver paper, we created the side windows and then made the sills from leftover cardboard sprayed silver.
63. Finally, we added the rear light-reflective stickers, and a sticker to the jerry can, plus the long aerial toy was glued to the back of the truck bed. Mew can see Melvyn attacking in the video.
And there mew have it, only 63 supurr simple steps to making your very own Unimog! MOL
But seriously, it didn't take long at all to make and considering we pretty much made it up as we went along, it didn't turn out too shabby. We also added one of our lovely snuggle mats in the truck bed to make it extra cosy.
And for those who'd just like to watch us make it, here are the videos.
Direct link to watch on YouTube
Direct link to watch on YouTube
Are mew ready for the video of The B Team with Mog 1? Of course mew are!
Direct link to watch on YouTube
LET'S GO TRICK OR TREATING!
What do mew think of our Unimog for cats?
We think MOG 1 is probably the best thing we have ever made.
See our previous Halloween Crafting videos below:
Check out the epically epic Spooky House and Catnip Pumpkins
and
The Halloween Crafting Special from 2019
Featuring oodles of fun projects including this giant furry pumpkin.
Gordon the Ghost Spooktacular Meowoleen Snuggle Mat 2021
Or check out our YouTube Channel for all our fun DIY Cat Stuff videos.
And that furiends furry sadly brings us to the end of our fifth Halloween Crafting with Cats Rerun; we do hope mew liked it, and feel free to post your pawesome crafty pics or ideas on our Facebook page at:
Amber will be here tomorrow with another fun book review. Until then...
Spooky purrs
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Wing Commander Basil & The B Team
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