What you need:
Toilet paper tube
Balloon
3 straws (2 cut to the side of the wood skewers, 1 full-size)
Two wood skewers (cut to 4”) 4 peanut butter jar lids (or any large same-size plastic lid — the larger the lid, the faster the car)
Pushpin
Duct tape, rubber band
Paint, paintbrush
Scissors
This is an easy craft and will just take some scraps scraps of material to create it.
centres of the four jar lids with a pushpin. The holes should fit a wood skewer snugly. Put the skewers through the short straw pieces and fit the wheels on each end of the skewer.
Use duct tape to attach straws (axles) to bottom of the tube. The wheels should not touch the sides of the tube and there should be a small gap.
Use a rubber band to attach a balloon to the end of a bendy straw. You should be able to blow through the straw to inflate balloon.
Tape the balloon and straw to top of car. Designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer in collaboration with the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and Modernist artists, the urban project Pampulha Modern Ensemble at Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais State, in Brazil, was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site two years ago.
Constructed around an artificial lake, this cultural and leisure centre has a casino, a ballroom, a golf and yacht club and the São Francisco de Assis church.
The Ensemble, a fusion of architecture, landscape design, sculpture and painting, reflects the influence of local traditions, the Brazilian climate and natural surroundings.
It was the centre of a visionary garden city project and comprises bold forms that exploit the plastic potential of concrete.
Of the 1940 structures, the casino is now the Pampulha art museum, the ballroom is the Centre of Reference in Urbanism, Architecture and Design and the golf and yacht club is the yacht tennis club. The São Francisco De Assis Church, however, remains in use as a church.
Beyond the four buildings and their linking board walk, the original concept of the garden city neighbourhood still persists in the encircling avenue with its green grass edges and beyond in the low rise detached houses in spacious gardens which collectively provide an overall rationale and context for the four buildings.
The lake around which the Ensemble stands, is however, quite polluted.
The Pampulha ensemble and its innovative architectural and landscape concepts reflect a particular stage in architectural history in South America, which in turn reflects wider socio-economic changes in society beyond the region.