Here is a subject that all kids love! Small boats large boats, crafts, speedboats, ships, pirate ships, yachts, diggys and sailboats.
MY INTENTION!
In this post I show you how to build a boat, I wish, but more like find an easy solution to craft a boat, out of paper.
Because we want our boat to go into the water, we are going to……….. Make Paper Boats that Float!
WHAT KIND OF BOATS?
Glancing upon our harbours there are rows of boats all lined up ready to venture out to rivers, canals and even to sea.
Sounds good doesn’t it? like freeing yourself from the city fumes, noise and congestion when you sail out at sea, breathing in the fresh air and breaking free from the ties of our everyday surroundings!
WAKEY WAKEY, LET’S BRING YOU BACK TO REALITY!
Can you remember, or have you ever when you were a kid or even have your kids ever tried to make a paper boat?
I remember back in the day as a kid I used to be able to make a paper boat out of a newspaper!
Then over the years, unfortunately, I forgot how to make one, I just lost that hey presto moment!
I WAS CHALLENGED!
Until one day having sat in a class, a child asked me if I could make him a boat!
Ooh, I thought, I’ll try, having many takes, but I failed drastically. Fold after fold I tried and just couldn’t pull it off.
Time after time I tried to fold an A4 sheet of paper and kind of got halfway there, then lost my way.
I let this go but was not beaten yet. By fluke, I randomly grabbed an A4 sheet of paper and without much thought had another go and viola I got it! I found a way to fold and pull out a boat.
FOATS OR NOT!
But will it float? I asked myself, the kids would run to the sink fill it up with water and place their paper boats in it.
For a while, the boats would sit on top of the water and the children would push or pull them or even blow and they would float, but this was not lasting!
Eventually, paper being paper got waterlogged and the boats would sink after some time!
So how would we stop this from happening?
How can we make paper boats that float?
Hello Julia,
I was in the same dilemma when my youngest asked me to create a paper airplane for her. I got halfway with it, and I failed to remember. It requires me a couple of yt videos to consume to be able to finish it, ugh!
The laminating film is a great idea, so I assume you would have to use the thinnest one that you can find so you can fold it easily. Good thing we have a laminating machine, the long one and not just for IDs.
Thank you for giving me an idea for this weekend’s activity with my kids.
Hiya Lemuel, haha, so I am not the only one! Once you get the jist on
how to fold it, it becomes easy peasy lol.
Now I show off in class and say ‘want to see how I can turn this piece of
paper into a boat? Kids love it, then I get a queue!!! some get it and
some don’t.
Anyways, love you can use your laminator in a constructive way, if you can get
hold of the thinner type of sheets yeah, but mine were 80 microns and although a bit
hard to press, just perservere and you can get a good crease.
Oh,before you pop the boat into water, maybe seal up any openings with some selotape
it will make it more waterproof.
Thanks for your comment.
Happy crafting.
Julia.?