DIY Soda Can Airplanes

 First of all Happy Mother's Day to all of you mommies out there, including my own. Love you mom! I hope everyone has a great day :) ..

This is another craft I've done for Colten's Birthday party. I am using these to hang on either side of his banner, which I will do a post on as well :). I may also make a few more just for decoration. They are so fun! I hope you enjoy this tutorial, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. I searched and searched for a tutorial on a soda can bi-plane and couldn't find one anywhere but then I found a template & was so happy because it made it much easier on me then having to free hand everything.

You will find your template here 

Print out your template & then cut out all of the pieces. You will then want to cut your cans open, if you have a handy man around the house I"m sure he can do this quickly for you.  Thankfully I had my dad since he's here visiting and my husband is away for work. If you don't though you will want to carefully make a slit in the top and bottom and cut them off so you have a sheet of your aluminum. Then trace your pattern onto all of your can's it took slightly less then 6 cans to make an airplane, we got 2 with very little left over out of a 12 pack.  It is fairly self explanatory as to how to put the plain together just takes some folding and hot glue. But I've included pictures of the process hopefully this helps, but like I said if you have questions just ask :).

                   This is how you will want to trace the top wing and bottom wing, so that you can just  fold it together for a thick piece & the outside of the can showing on both sides.

                     You will see my wonderful mom & dad helped :). We cut a slit in our can and then glued it back together to make it a little smaller, about the size of a toilet paper roll. This is optional

                                                     Another picture of how I traced things.

                                                       

                                                 Glue your tail to the center of your rear wing.

                

                                             This is showing how the wing supports go on.

I have also made candy airplanes for his party if you'd like to see those click here

-Kayla :)