How to make a rescued submarine from everyday objects!

Always use your imagination and be creative when building this project or any other. It’s your creation, so be inventive when looking for building supplies, you might be surprised! When building your project, experiment with new and different ways to put it together. The most important thing is to have fun! Find these or other similar supplies!

• Carton of milk or juice
• Scotch tape
• Straws
• Some cardboard or old cardstock
• Markers or pens to personalize
• Small paper cups
• Two toilet paper tubes and paper towels
• Egg carton

1. What are you going to use?

This project has a lot of room to breathe creative. There really isn’t a wrong way to make a salvaged Sub, so play around with your design before you start pasting or pasting everything.

2. Design your design!

This is the basic design of my Sub Salvaged. The toilet paper tubes and paper towels run the length of the body of the milk carton, with the small paper cups inserted at the ends. For the front of the tubes, I cut out some pieces of egg carton and glued them together for a streamlined look. Add a cup and a piece of plastic on top and you have a submarine!

3. Cover your pieces with duct tape!

Now for my finished Sub, I took all my pieces apart and covered everything with duct tape. I used orange tape for the tubes and the milk carton, and regular tape for all the other pieces.

4. Color as you like!

Then I colored all the other pieces (cups, front lids, wings, etc.) with a yellow marker. You can always color your Sub without the tape or decorate it with paint.

5. Place the pieces!

When I finished coloring all the pieces I started gluing the pieces together. Large paper towel tubes go at the bottom, smaller toilet paper tubes at the top, with small cardboard flaps. The paper cup goes on top, providing the crew with an access hatch.

6. Add details!

Now at this point I started adding a lot of little details to make my sub look great. The grab arms are easy to make, just tape two bending straws and attach them to the sides of your sub. The “hands” on the grip arms are cut from some tape.

7. Personalize, personalize, personalize!

A plastic cap can become an observation bubble! I also used some straws and bottle caps as my Sub’s bulbs. These help illuminate the murky depths of the ocean!

8. Finished!

The last little detail was my front window. You can draw the faces of your crew so they can pilot your rescued submarine across the ocean! Ready! A salvage submarine!