Make a Boat - Boat Craft for Kids

After spending some time looking around online I found out that April 14^th is the anniversary of the Titanic hitting the iceberg and that inspired me to make some boats with Thomas. I’m sure right now there’s not much understanding of the whole meaning behind it, but we will still have fun making different types of boats and floating them around in the bathtub.

Now if you’re doing this for a classroom – which I think would be awesome – you could use a kiddy pool.

After spending some more time online looking at different boat crafts for kids I decided to put together a box of materials and let Thomas help me assemble the boats.

Boat # 1

Milk Carton
A Long Straw
One paper square
One paper rectangle 
Tape or Glue

Cut one long side of the milk carton off. Puncture holes in the paper and thread them onto the straw. Using either the tape or the glue secure the straw to the inside bottom of the milk carton. You could use a fan to move the boat or simply blow on it. You could have races or just simply show how wind is used to move some boats.

 

Boat # 2

Milk Carton
Wooden Skewers
Rubber Bands
Craft Sticks
Tape

Lay the milk carton on its side and cut off the top. Push two wooden skewers threw the bottom of the milk carton (or the back of the boat). Cut a craft stick to fit in between the wooden skewers. Puncture a hole into one end of a craft stick and threat a rubber band threw the hole and tie a knot in it. Slide the other end of the rubber band around craft stick #1 that you cut to put between the skewers. Make sure there is room for craft stick # 2 to move between the end of the boat and flip back around the craft stick # 1 . Secure craft stick  # 1 into place using the tape. Make sure you leave the majority of the rubber band out of the tape. Wind the rubber band around the taped craft stick # 1 until it has been wound tightly enough to spin when it is let go. Place boat in the water, release the rubber band propeller and watch it take off.

Boat # 3

3 Corks
Glue

Make a raft by gluing the three corks together and let it float around in the water.

 

Boat # 4

Milk Carton
Balloons

Cut the side off of the milk carton. Puncture a hole in the back (or bottom) of the carton. Thread the balloon threw the hole. Blow up the balloon and place the boat in the water. Let the balloon power the boat across the tub.

 

Have fun! We sure did.