Star Ship Enterprise From Cardboard

Have you been wanting to do something fun with cardboard? Or you're a fan of "Star Trek" and you want to create something fun to sit out for show and tell? Well, this might be a fun project! You could do it yourself, with a friend or for a friend!

• Corrugated cardboard
• Knife (preferably an exacto knife or utility knife)
• Acrylic paint
• Grey spray paint
• Hot glue
• Hot glue gun

Draw two large circles using a large plate for tracing.

Draw, onto cardboard, another circle that is a little amount smaller than the first one drawn.

Draw another two circles a little bit smaller than the circles drawn in the last step. Cut all of the circles out with a knife. When you glue the saucer circles together, they should look like the picture above.

Glue the two largest circles together that were drawn in the first step.

Glue the combination of the two largest circles to the second largest circles that were drawn in the second step.

Glue the last two circles to the combination of the circles already glued together.

Draw a mushroom shape onto the cardboard and cut it out. It should be smaller than your hand.

Glue the mushroom shape to the top of the saucer.

Draw an oval with one flat edge. Draw a second oval that is small enough to fit inside the oval with the flat edge (the smaller oval should be about the same size as your thumb).

Glue the separate oval-shaped pieces together.

Glue the two pieces, that were glued together in the last step, to the mushroom shaped piece that was already glued to the saucer.

Draw a large funnel shape onto cardboard and cut it out. Glue it to the middle of the saucer so that it is pretty much lined up with the mushroom shape.

Draw two ramp shapes that are small enough to fit underneath the funnel shape. Glue both together, then glue it underneath the funnel shape.

Draw a shorter funnel shape onto cardboard. Cut it out and glue it to the end of the ramp-shaped piece located underneath the saucer.

Draw a shape that looks similar to a head and shoulders. This should be almost as wide as the saucer section, but no larger in size.

Draw a rectangle small enough to fit in between the saucer and the secondary hull section. Glue it in its place centered in between the saucer and the secondary hull.

Draw four small rectangles that are as wide as the "shoulder" shape of the secondary hull.

Glue the bases for the warp engines onto the ends of the "shoulder" shapes of the secondary hull.

Draw an oval the same size as the "head" shape of the secondary hull. Draw a line through it so that it looks like the picture above. Cut it out and glue it to the "head" shaped part of the secondary hull so that it tips up.

Draw four large skinny rectangles onto cardboard and cut them out. These will be the warp engines.

Round every edge of the rectangles so that it looks like the picture above. Then glue them into pairs so that it's two separate pieces.

Now glue them to the warp engine bases so that there is more of the warp engine sticking out of the front side of the bases.

Draw another two rectangles that are a size smaller than the normal warp engine rectangles. Round the edges, then cut them out. Hot glue them to the top of the warp engines.

Spray paint the whole ship grey.

Write "USS Enterprise", then below it "NCC-1701".

Using acrylic paint, neatly mark lines of white on the top of the ship as shown in the picture.

Paint some more white lines on the lower section of the ship.

Paint a pinkish-red color on the tip of the warp engines.

Paint the outside edges of the warp engines white. Then paint some white on the top of the warp engines as well. Make it so it looks like the picture above.

Paint a streak of red in the following spots:

1. The lower part of the visible large triangle attaching to the secondary hull section
2. The lower left section above the left warp engine
3. The lower right section above the right warp engine

Paint two lines down both of the warp engines spaced a fair amount apart from each other. Then, paint an oval above those lines so that it looks like the picture above.

Paint a white design, similar to the look of a lilly pad or a sheild, onto the oval part of the red design that you painted in the last step.

Now your Enterprise star ship is finished! Hope you enjoy creating and presenting your art work for others!

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