Experiments and crafts
Build your own aircraft
Duration:
20 minutes or more
Difficulty level:
Medium
Let your imagination soar while you build your own aircraft! Choose your favourite… or make them all! Recommended for ages eight and up.
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What you need
- A print out of the aircraft you wish to make (PDF templates below)
- Crayons, pencil crayons, or markers
- Scotch tape
- Scissors
Make it
- Use crayons, pencil crayons, or markers to decorate the various pieces of your aircraft.
- Following the outer lines, carefully cut out all of the aircraft components.
- Start with the fuselage of the aircraft. Fold on the lines, so the resulting form has two sides, a top and bottom. Glue in place (you may want to use a small amount of tape to keep things in place while the glue dries).
- Carefully glue the fuselage to the wings, then glue on the tail.
3D paper aircraft models
Naval aircraft
- McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee (PDF, 140 KB)
- Grumman CP-121 Tracker (PDF, 145 KB)
- Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (PDF, 127 KB)
- Sikorsky S-55 HO4S-3 (PDF, 140 KB)
Second World War aircraft
- Messerschmitt Bf 109 (PDF, 110 KB)
- Douglas DC-3 (PDF, 118 KB)
- Harvard (PDF, 140 KB)
- Hawker Hurricane XII (PDF, 125 KB)
- Curtiss Kittyhawk I (PDF, 122 KB)
- Avro Lancaster (PDF, 111 KB)
- Westland Lysander III (PDF, 130 KB)
- Supermarine Spitfire (PDF, 117 KB)
Bush planes used for airmail delivery
- Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker (PDF, 162 KB)
- Noorduyn Norseman VI (PDF, 134 KB)
- De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver:
- Advanced (PDF, 530 KB)
- “Pengo Pallee” (PDF, 135 KB)
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