A few days ago Lara and I painted some flags to make egg carton boats, which we sailed in the fountain this morning. I drew a few boats with flags, and she basically painted everywhere but there on that piece of paper. Today, we cut out rectangular flags and glued them onto toothpicks. Then I poked the toothpicks through some cut-down styrofoam egg carton pieces. Et voila - boats!
We tested their sea-worthiness at length, and I realized too late that I had forgotten to attach some kind of balast to them. I'm guessing a penny taped onto the bottom would have worked well.
I put a few pebbles into the first one we launched and that was the lone survivor.
Well, there's still eight more egg cups left in that carton!
That's an awesome idea! Totally going to borrow that one---my girls would love it!
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