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Simple Sailboat Craft

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You can make these cute little toy boats in just a few minutes. They are great for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice cutting with scissors, drawing, and molding clay.

Estimated Time: 20 minutes
Supplies Needed:
  • A wide plastic lid (like the lid from a margarine tub)
  • A drinking straw
  • Construction paper
  • Kids' scissors
  • A hole punch
  • Crayons, markers, and/or stickers
  • A small wad of play dough

Instructions

1.

Cut a triangle from a piece of construction paper, which will be your sail. Decorate the sail with crayons, markers, and/or stickers.

Cut-out triangle
2.

Punch three holes along one side of the triangle.

Punching the holes in paper.
3.

Weave a drinking straw (the boat’s mast) through the holes.

Putting a straw in the paper.
4.

Put a small wad of molding clay on the inside of the lid. Then push the end of the drinking straw into the clay.

You now have a cute little toy sailboat that can float in water!

A finished sailboat craft.
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