Poco Mountain Girl

This sweet project comes from one of my favorite blogs. Zia loves anything to do with living a wild, risky, outdoorsy and adventurous life, so a prairie schooner was right up her alley.

I didn’t take pics of the whole process, but it was super simple and finished well within the attention span of a 3 year old. We constructed the wagon box from a rectangular scrap of poster board with corners removed, and the wagon hoops are also strips of poster board. We stuck it all together with Elmer’s glue, although a glue gun would have made the drying time much faster!

The wheels and wagon tongue were cut from the top flaps of a corrugated cardboard box.

Painting it is the most fun, of course, and paper dolls added to the story-telling element.

Ta-da! Painting didn’t last long, but it’s good enough for us.

A perfect home on wheels…

with the addition of a few flannel blankets

…and a strong white ox to pull it across the wide, windy prairie.

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