Make a train mail-box for your child�s room using a shoe box with the lid removed. Using poster board, draw out the front, back, sides and wheels. Create the engine, regular car or caboose depending on the child�s preference. You may even wish to model it after some popular train characters from television or books. Color the sections in with markers, crayons or paints, adding details... Fold a rectangular piece of cardboard into a tube and tape to the front of the engine to make a smokestack. To make the front cow catcher, take a rectangular piece of cardboard and score the sides of a parallelogram and then fold.
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Draw, or have the children draw, train cars--including an engine and a caboose--and wheels on pieces of paper. Draw two wheels per train car. Cut them out with scissors. Draw two wheels per train car.