From Inchmark, a super quick and easy kid’s toy project using mostly recyclables, what’s not to love? I wish I was the type of person who read directions, because Inchmark’s Brooke Reynolds did advise using Tyvek paper for the sails, for example from a USPS Priority Mail envelope. These would not have fallen apart like my construction paper sails (above) did after a few capsizings (it’s the plural of capsizing, I checked!) in the water table.
Besides the sails, you’ll need a wooden skewer and some colored electrical tape for each boat. Pushing the skewer all the way through the juice box so that it protrudes about an inch under the boat helps with the stability of the finished boat. A coin taped to the bottom could help too, as Inchmark recommends, but my little seaman found he didn’t need it. Happy sailing.
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“little seaman”. i like that touch, Lisa.
hi maria! “little seaman-meckler” just didn’t have the same ring.