The Garage

Build the garage. Park the cars. Make it yours.

The Garage is a hands-on cardboard building kit designed for kids who already love cars, ramps, parking garages, and imaginative vehicle play.

We handle the designing, measuring, testing, and cutting so your kid can get straight to building.

The pieces arrive pre-cut and ready to assemble—no measuring or cutting required to get started.

Once the garage is built, the building doesn’t have to stop. Kids can decorate it, change it, play with it, repair it, and use the included templates to rebuild pieces from cardboard at home.

What Kids Build

Kids assemble the garage piece by piece, including:

• Ground-level driving and parking area
• Elevated parking deck
• Connecting ramp
• Marked parking spaces
• Covered and open driving areas
• Structural walls, columns, and supports

When they’re finished, they get to look at something that didn’t exist before and say:

“I made that.”

What’s Included

Every Garage kit includes:

• Pre-cut cardboard Garage pieces
• Step-by-step assembly instructions
• Reusable templates for rebuilding parts from cardboard at home
• A bonus build using the shipping box
• Access to additional build ideas and activities

Even the scraps are for building.

Build It. Make It Yours. Build Again.

BUILD IT

Turn flat pieces of cardboard into a working multi-level parking garage.

MAKE IT YOURS

Color it. Paint it. Add signs. Draw roads. Change it. Add onto it. There’s no single “right” finished Garage.

PLAY

Grab the cars they already own and put the finished build to work.

BUILD AGAIN

Cardboard won’t last forever—and that’s okay.

If a piece wears out or gets damaged, use the included template to make another one from cardboard at home.

The goal isn’t to keep the cardboard perfect.

The goal is to keep the kid building.

Why Parents Like It

The prep work is already done.
No designing, measuring, or cutting is required for the first build.

It works with toys they already love.
The Garage is designed around standard 1:64-scale die-cast toy cars.

Building is part of the play.
This isn’t a finished toy that comes out of a box ready to use. Your child gets to make the thing they’re going to play with.

It’s meant to be customized.
Plain cardboard is a blank canvas. Color it, draw on it, add signs, modify it, and make it theirs.

It’s repairable by design.
The included templates let families make replacement pieces from ordinary cardboard at home.

No batteries. No screens required.
Just cardboard, instructions, imagination, and a kid who wants to build something.

How Long Does It Take?

The initial build may take around 15–30 minutes, depending on the child and how much help they need.

But finishing the Garage isn’t the end of the experience.

Build it. Decorate it. Play with it. Change it. Repair it. Build something else.

Will My Child Need Help?

That depends on their age and previous building experience.

The kit is designed and tested with kids with the goal of letting children do as much as they reasonably can themselves. Younger children may enjoy building alongside an adult.

Do We Need Scissors or Knives?

Not for the initial build.

The Garage pieces arrive pre-cut.

If you later use the included templates to make replacement pieces from cardboard at home, cutting tools may be needed and adult help may be appropriate.

Compatibility

The Garage is designed for standard 1:64-scale die-cast toy cars, the approximate size used by many common toy car collections.

Toy cars are not included.

The Cardboard Engineer is not affiliated with, licensed by, or endorsed by any toy car manufacturer or brand.

The Cardboard Engineer Idea

Cardboard is wonderfully forgiving.

Something doesn’t work? Try again.

Something tears? Make another.

Want to change the design? Go for it.

We do the engineering so your kid can do the building.

The stakes are low. The possibilities aren’t.