It all started in the morning... First Daniel carefully filled the ice cube tray with a spouted measuring cup. I was impressed that there was no spillage. Meanwhile Jacob pinned clothespins to toothpicks. Then we carefully added a couple of drops of food colouring into each ice cube hole. We balanced the clothespins across the ice cube tray to keep the masts upright and then I put the whole thing in the freezer.
After lunch Jacob fell asleep so Daniel and I made sails for the boats. We anxiously waited for Jacob to awake. When he finally did, he taped all the sails on and then we went outside. We filled up this old plastic sandbox with water, popped the boats out, and here we go!
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| Jacob liked figuring out which ones actually floated upright. Some didn't because our masts/sails weren't straight. |
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| The liked having the hose left on because it created a current that went in a circle. When the boats made it around, they got sunk by the cascading water. |
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| Daniel enjoyed putting the sunken boats back in the tray and then eating them when I wasn't looking. |
2 comments:
Is there no end to your creativity? Lucky boyZ! Great fun and learning! Did they lick the ice cube boats?
Daniel ate the boats... I put that under the last picture. This would be fun to do with frozen juice ice cube boats and clean water... Hmmm... More ideas :)
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