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Ice Boats
Making ice boats is another fun activity to enjoy water during the summer.
What you’ll need:
- A milk carton, the plastic-coated paper kind
- 12 toothpicks
- colored construction paper
- ice cube tray
- a plastic dishpan or other container for floating the boats in (your bathtub works too!)
What to do:
- Cut 12 squares from the clean milk carton, each should be a little smaller than the top of an ice cube.
- Stick a toothpick into the middle of each square.
- Fill the ice cube tray with water.
- Float each square in a square of the ice cube tray, with the longer end of the toothpick sticking up, and place in the freezer.
- Cut small paper sails out of the colored construction paper.
- When the ice is frozen, pop out the ice "boats".
- Put a sail on each toothpick and you’re ready to launch your own fleet!