- Try making a NASCAR Easter basket with your kids.easter basket image by Bartlomiej Nowak from Fotolia.com
Kids love fast cars and loud engines. If your family enjoys NASCAR, making racing crafts together is a great way to bond with your kids and introduce them to one of your interests. Who knows---you might just inspire the next Dale Earnhardt. - There is no more thrilling craft for a young child than one he can eat. Candy cars make creative party favors and delicious treats. Glue four peanut butter cups, after-dinner mints or other round, wrapped candies to a pack of gum with a low-heat glue gun to create a chassis with wheels on it. Attach one miniature, snack-sized candy bar to the back for a spoiler and a second candy bar to the front for a grill.
- The NASCAR basket is a novel alternative to the traditional Easter basket. Buy a small model of each child's favorite NASCAR car or NASCAR driver at a toy store or discount outlet. Paint a piece of cardboard gray and add a white line down the middle to represent a road. Tape the car or action figure to the road and add other NASCAR goodies such as miniature checkered flags, NASCAR trading cards and, of course, candy. Place the entire "scene" in a plastic basket and give it to your favorite junior NASCAR fan.
- Making a balloon car is an educational way for older kids to learn about physics and get a taste of racing excitement. Build a car body out of a cardboard box, a plastic container or just a few sheets of cardboard. Make wheels out of film canisters and thumbtacks, plastic bottle caps and skewers or salvaged wheels from old toy cars. Finally, tape a balloon to a straw and mount it at the rear of the car to provide power. Blow the balloon up, pinch it closed and put the car down. Release the balloon to send your homemade NASCAR racer scooting across the floor. Compete to see whose car can drive the fastest or go for the longest distance.
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