To make your own shoebox train you will need: They even pretended that the animals were shoveling coal, which was something that they learned from the movie. They pulled it around the house, dropping the stuffed animals off at different stations. Haha.Īfter watching the movie, the kids were SO excited to make their own train. I even learned some new things! My favorite fun fact from the movie: It was rude to use the bathroom on the train when it was pulled into the station because there’s no holding tank. The movie is filled with beautiful illustrations from the book and gives a great history lesson to the kids about trains and the railroad. How neat is that?! You don’t even have to leave your house to borrow the movie from the library! Too see if your local library offers hoopla, click the button that says “view map” at the bottom of their home page. ( We received the movie for free, all opinions are my own.) Locomotive is now available to watch instantly for FREE from participating libraries through a service called hoopla. We were inspired by the movie Locomotive, which is a video made from the award winning children’s book by Brian Floca. It’s a shoebox train that they can load up with stuffed animals and pull around the house. I made a little train craft with the kids this weekend that I wanted to share with you.
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