The house where the children live is especially bright. It is noisy and full of children's laughter, its walls are decorated with colorful children's drawings. Regardless of its size and at any time of the day, they play football and ping-pong, tag and hide-and-seek, and all this riot is watched by numerous teddy bears and hares seated on sofas and armchairs. Miniature garages filled with a variety of children's cars are a must-have attribute of a boy's children's room.
It's hard to overestimate the importance of toys for harmonious development child's personality. With the help of the most ordinary children's car, kids learn to express their emotions, explore the world around them, receive a lot of information, and even learn to walk (for example, with the help of a wheelchair). While playing with a quality toy, a child’s fine motor skills improve, which means brain activity improves, creative and creative skills develop. logical abilities. Even when disassembling a children's car into many small parts, the child does not just break it - he gains invaluable research experience.
The current children's toy industry offers such a range of vehicles that a boy of any age and temperament will not be able to remain indifferent.
Kinds toy cars according to the material used
Soft cars
These toys are intended for little ones. They are made of plush or other soft fabric. Their distinctive features - high safety, the presence of rustling, ringing parts with a rattle function.
Soft textile machines develop vision, hearing, fine motor skills and, of course, aesthetic perception.
When buying a soft toy, you should pay attention to the quality of the seams and the reliability of fastening small parts.
Rubber cars
Also most often intended for the younger age group 6 months-3 years.
They can be one-piece and used for bathing (then the wheels of the machine are a single unit with the body), and they can have a squeaker (in this case, the toy has an age limit to prevent the squeaker whistle from getting into the child’s mouth or nose).
Cars made of wood
The material speaks for itself, it is environmentally friendly and safe. Age category – from 1 year.
Some models are a construction machine or a machine- 
pyramid, have additional functions.
Psychologists say that the more useful a toy is, the simpler it is. Cars made of wood are ideal for this thesis. When purchasing such a machine, you need to pay attention to the paint that covers the wood. A pronounced smell and a poisonously bright color should alert the buyer - these are signs of a low-quality and, possibly, unsafe toy for health.
Plastic toy cars
Made from safe food grade plastic. The simplest examples are intended for babies from one year old.
The huge variety of such toys in both size and shape ensures their popularity. A high-quality machine should not have a paint smell or “sagging” on parts.
Metal cars
Age restrictions: for children over 3 years old. You shouldn't buy it for your baby - it usually has a lot of small parts.
Toys can be very different - cars, trucks, special equipment (ambulance 
help, fire engine etc.), agricultural and construction equipment. Collectible cars are also made from metal.
When purchasing a metal machine, you need to pay attention to the quality of small parts and the reliability of their fastening.
At buying children's cars, regardless of the material from which they are made, and their functional features, do not forget about the safety of the toy.
The ideal option would be to have a quality certificate for the machine, but, unfortunately, in modern Ukrainian and Russian markets Less than 10% of children's toys are provided with such documents.
If the document is missing, you need to pay attention to the marking - a high-quality copy must have it, indicating not only the country of origin, but also the factory where the toy was produced.
In addition, the age limit must be indicated on the packaging. We must not forget that cars that contain parts smaller than 3 cm are prohibited for use by children under 3 years of age.
Using these simple rules, you can choose a safe and useful children's car for any boy.
Especially for the blog “The World Through the Eyes of a Mother”, mother of 4 boys Marina Pozdeeva
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Hello to all fans make homemade cars from available parts from broken cars! Today we will tell you how to do it yourself make a car with a motor.
This model of a toy car is an airmobile (it is structurally similar to ““), that is, it will be driven by a propeller. If desired, you can put it in a boat, which will float very quickly.
We make a machine with a motor
To create an air car you will need the following parts:
If you're ready, let's start crafting!
- Solder a wire to the batteries and connect them in series, that is, solder the “+” of one battery to the “–” of the second and so on.
Connect the batteries to create a series circuit
Secure them together with rubber rings. This way you should have a 6 volt battery.
AA batteries connected by rubber rings
As an option, you can replace the AA batteries with one or two more powerful ones, then you either won’t have to solder, or you’ll need less.
- Connect the toggle switch to the batteries, and then connect the electric motor to this electrical circuit. Turning the toggle switch on and off, check if the motor is working.
Connect an electric motor to the battery
- Then we move on to creating the body of the machine. To do this, cut out the rectangular base of the machine from polystyrene foam and mark the locations of the wheels.
Cut out the body of the machine
- Using a knife, make indentations in the foam to the thickness of the tubes placed on the wheel axles.
Prepare the wheel mounting points
- Cut out two foam thin plates which will fix the wheels. Fasten them with screws.
Secure the wheels with screws
- Cut out a mount for the electric motor from foam plastic and attach it to the base of the machine.
Cut out the motor mount
- Attach the electric motor to it using rubber bands and a thin pin or nail, as shown in the picture.
Attach the electric motor
- Cut a screw from a plastic bottle. Bend its blades. Make a hole in the center and insert the screw onto the electric motor, securing it with a fixing ring made of a rod ballpoint pen.
Attach a homemade screw to the motor
- Secure the batteries using rubber rings and turn on the toggle switch. The air car must go.
All parents benefit from conducting educational activities for their children. It would be good for every father to make toys with his own hands together with his children, setting a positive example for them. One of these toys could be a toy car.
There are many photos of homemade cars on the Internet, all you have to do is choose for yourself suitable option, and get down to business.
What car to make
To choose the appropriate type of craft for making, you should soberly assess your strengths and means. If a teenager decides to engage in this process on his own, then he should start with simple ideas do-it-yourself machines.
To begin with, you can choose a craft made from cardboard and paper. They are relatively simple to make, and the materials and tools are readily available. All you need is scissors, glue, and cardboard.
How to make paper cars if you have no experience in designing at all? Where should you start, and what are the next stages of work? These issues need to be taken seriously. The child must learn to set a task for himself and be able to solve it.
Cardboard racing car
Let's look at how to make a machine with your own hands. To do this you will need:
- cardboard cylinder;
- scissors;
- colored paper and plain paper;
- stationery pins;
- a set of felt-tip pens;
- white and black cardboard.
The body of the car will consist of a cylinder; it will be covered with paper of any color. 4 black wheels and 4 white wheels are cut out of additional cardboard.
Additional cardboard circles are glued to the end parts of the car so that there is no through holes in a cylinder. The glued circles can be painted with felt-tip pens.
The wheels are attached with push pins in the center of the circle, and their ends are bent from the inside of the cylinder. A small hole for the driver should be cut on top of the finished body. The finished car is painted with felt-tip pens.
Electronic machine with remote control
Children really like cars with remote control. If you don’t find a suitable model in the store, you can assemble it yourself. Today, every home with children is full of toy junk. There you can select suitable spare parts and bodywork.
You will need the following:
- wheels;
- frame;
- electric motor;
- different screwdrivers.
Build process
Most likely, some parts will have to be purchased. This applies to the control system. If homemade machine will have a simple control panel, it will be simpler and more cost-effective. When installing radio controls, you may have to spend more money on parts.
Having distributed the assembly plan and the dimensions of the device, you need to start assembling. The chassis must include wheels. The product itself must be error-free and easy to move. Good grip for the machine will be provided by wheels with rubber tires.
There are two types of motor. Its choice depends on the user who will manage it. If this is a child, then you need to install an electric motor. It will cost less; if possible, it can be removed from a broken toy car.
If the machine is intended for adult users, then you can install a gasoline engine on it. It will cost an order of magnitude more, and caring for it will be more difficult.
Wired controls will limit the movement of the machine. It is preferable to choose a radio unit, then the product will be able to move independently of the wires. But movement will also only take place within radio range.
The choice of body is determined by taste preferences. The variety of models today is simply huge, everything is limited by imagination and budget.
Having prepared all the elements, you need to begin installation. The chassis with wheels is mounted first. Next, the motor and radio are installed on the frame. An antenna is attached to the body. If all components were purchased in a store, then installation instructions should be included.
The batteries are attached last. After debugging the engine, the housing is attached to the chassis. The final touch can be decorations from various stickers. The car is ready!
Homemade complex type machine
You can give other instructions on how to make a radio-controlled car. To do this you will need:
- Body of any model;
- Powerful 12V battery;
- Radio control;
- Charger;
- Soldering tool and all necessary components for it;
- Electrical measuring instruments;
- Rubber blanks for bumpers;
Installation process
Process step-by-step assembly The machines are much more complex than the previous type. The suspension elements are assembled first. Then the gearbox with plastic gears is assembled.
To install it, a thread is made in the housing. Next, the motor is connected to power and its performance is checked.
Radio circuits are mounted in such a way that overheating does not occur. Sometimes a radiator is attached to them. At the end, the model body is assembled. That's all you need to make a radio-controlled car.
To homemade car It had maneuverability, and with good speed one must try not to overload it with unnecessary parts.
The presence of headlights and dimensions looks nice, but to attach them, wiring must be installed. As a result, this will complicate the design and assembly.
Photos of homemade cars
Date of publication: 16-07-2015, 19:32
You can make a toy car in many ways and from many materials. You can use wood, mono plastic bottle, or maybe cardboard. Of course, it’s quite difficult to do something really worthwhile, but if you try and approach the matter with your head, the result will be positive in any case. It is worth noting that it is best to give your child not a homemade product, but a radio-controlled car, which you can buy on the RC-GO website, where you can also buy a radio-controlled helicopter and much more.Making a toy car
Let's start with the use of wood. You can make a very good model out of wood.
For this you will need the following:
Bar;
four wheels;
varnish;
sandpaper;
knife;
hacksaw;
glue.
In this case, the machine consists of three parts, namely the body and two bridges. It is their production that needs to be done. First the body. It is necessary to saw off the timber, its length must correspond to the length of the car body. Then you need to make a body from the blank, cutting and grinding off the excess wood. The most important thing is to take your time. The result should be a body polished to a shine. And also, at the bottom of the car body it is necessary to make cutouts for installing bridges. As for the bridges themselves, they can be made from planks. You can use many different things that look like wheels as wheels.
Then the bridges must be glued to the body and the machine must be varnished. If there is any suitable sticker available, then it needs to be pasted on the machine in the place where it should have a door.
Another option is to use cardboard. In this case, in addition to cardboard, you will need scissors, glue and wheels. You can use anything else, it all depends on your imagination.
First, the supporting frame is made; for its manufacture, you can use something that has not been voiced. The axles need to be fixed to the frame; as for what can be used in their role, it all depends on what the wheels are. For example, pastes from helium pens or bodies from the same pens can be used as bridges. You need to make a body and a cabin out of cardboard, what exactly to do can be seen in the image.
If you use a plastic bottle, the chassis can be made from branches and wheels from caps. Well, in general there are a lot of options. By the way, the creation of cars can be entrusted to the child himself.
