Plastic Bottle Trucks

An empty laundry detergent bottle makes a fantastic truck with laughing squid.  She adds bottle cap wheels and makes all kinds of trucks from ones for circus animals to the  pizza delivery kind.

Good for ages 6 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://laughingsquid.com/truck-cans-plastic-bottle-toy-vehicles-by-martine-camillieri/

Cardboard Box Trucks

Cardboard boxes are turned into a working truck with small hands big art.

Good for ages 10 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.smallhandsbigart.com/blog/featured-article/box-dump-trucks/

Truck Tracks

Toy truck tire treads make for a fun paint brush as inspired by learn play imagine.  She uses blobs of colorful paint for the trucks to run into.  Kids could also get really messy and more truck like and use mud as well.

Good for ages 2 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.learnplayimagine.com/2012/04/making-paint-tracks-with-toy-trucks.html