How to make a Sailboat from Recycled Materials
Sailboat ingredients:
- Styrofoam egg carton
- Stick
- Old plastic tablecloth or vinyl shower curtain
- Duct tape
- Patience
Instructions to make sailboat:
- Separate the top from the bottom of the egg carton. Use the top for the sailboat, and use the bottom – the eggcups for seats.
- Cut sail out of vinyl into a right triangle
- Cut two holes in the top and bottom to push stick through. Insert stick in holes, and reinforce lightly with duct tape.
- Cut slit in section of egg carton that is high, and will not sit in the water. Push stick through and secure lightly with duct tape.
- Use the egg holders from the other side of the egg carton to add “seats†for Batman and Robin.
- Be ready for complaints that “they don’t want it like this.â€
- Hide sailboat from child when he goes to sleep to avoid more whining the next day.
6 Comments
This Eclectic Life
That’s a good one, Susie. Did the boys have fun with that?
TeaMouse
I’ll bet you would need 2 x patience. I can see how this would be a lot of fun for kids.
Leslie
Very fun activity for the kids. And Batman and Robin.
Gift of Green
Brilliant! Thanks for documenting and sharing!
bitsy parker
This post was really inspiring – I’m closing my computer and directing my bored children in making a sailboat. Of course, we are in the mountains of Mexico for the summer and there is nary a drop of water anywhere in sight…oh, I remember a fountain!!!
Thanks for the inspiration.
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