How fabulous is it to find uses for all that clutter we have collected over the years? If you are anything like me, you must have plenty of it! So, let's use the month of OCTOBER to re-purpose, re-use, re-cycle and re-joice in the added bonus of helping our Mother Earth (...and reducing your spending!).
Make the PLEDGE NOW to join in the fun of "Buy Nothing New Month"!
Imagine how much fun you will have creating new stuff out of old! ou can really get your creativity going! I have started already. I am revamping our very old and well used coffee table instead of buying a new one, but that is another post/tutorial to come...it's still in the process of drying after getting wet under the carport from all of the rain we have had...Aahhhgh!
Miss 12 recently had a school project to do. She had to construct a sailing boat out of recycled materials. Here are the results...it turned out pretty good!
Lots of different household materials were used, so it would make a great School Holiday activity!
Here is the TUTORIAL as written by Miss 12.
BOAT NAME
“Seas the Day”
MATERIALS
· Lightweight plastic container – I used the sort that meat comes in from the supermarket
· Tin foil
· 4x small plastic bottles – I used small hotel shampoo bottles
· Two drinking straws
· A thin strip of three inch wide balsa wood.
· A quad stick of balsa wood 1cm x 0.5cm thickness
· Cling wrap
· Fishing wire
· Hot glue gun
· Glue sticks
· Sticky tape
· Ruler
· Scissors
· Hole punch
· Small hand saw
· Self healing cutting mat
METHOD
Body
1. Cover the plastic container, inside and out, with tin foil. Secure with sticky tape.
2. Cut four tin foil pieces to cover each of the small plastic bottles.
3. Cover them, and secure with sticky tape.
4. Use the hot glue gun to secure each foil wrapped bottle to each corner side of the container.
Mast
5. To make the mast, carefully cut with a hand saw on a self healing mat, a length of the Balsa wood quad the height that you want your mast to be. I cut mine 35cm long.
6. Take one straw, and hot glue it to the top of the mast on an angle – this will form part of the sail.
7. You may need to add an extra length of straw to the bottom
of the first straw for length. I used an extra 6cm piece. Cut
this from the second straw and secure with sticky tape.
8. Hot glue an end of the remaining straw to the bottom
of the first straw to form an angle towards the mast. Then
hot glue the other end of this straw to the mast. The straws
should now form a triangle against the mast.
9. Cover the straw sail with cling wrap, and secure with sticky
tape.
Securing Mast and Sail to Boat Base
10. To secure the mast to your boat base, you first need to punch
one hole in each of the four top corners of your boat base,
with the hole punch.
11. Use hot glue to attach your mast to the centre of your boat
base. You will need to use plenty of glue for a firm hold. Hold
in place until glue sets.
12. Next, cut four lengths of fishing line to tie the mast securely
to your boat.
13. Hot glue and then sticky tape the four ends of the fishing wire
to the top of your mast.
14. Tie one end of the fishing wire firmly to each of the four
corner holes you created. Your mast and sail should now be
firmly set onto your boat base with little or no movement.
Inside the Boat
Seats:
15. Measure the inside width of the boat base container. Mine
Was 13.5cm.
16. Measure a thin piece of balsa wood to match this length.
17. Carefully cut a thin balsa wood strip with the hand saw, to
form a piece the same length as the width of the inside of
your boat. Mine was 13.5 cm long.
18. Next cut the thin measured piece of Balsa wood in half length
ways, to form two equal lengths.
19. Put hot glue on each end of the of balsa wood strips that will
Butt up against the inside of the boat.
20. Carefully place the pieces inside the boat, one at each end.
These will form the seats in the boat.
21. Join five flat wooden icy-pole sticks together with sticky
tape. Repeat again to form two stacks of five flat sticks.
These will form the backs of your seats.
22. Run hot glue along the bottom of one stack, and join to the
seat base. You may need more hot glue to secure it in place.
Hold it in place until hot glue has set.
23. Repeat for the other seat.
Name Plate:
24. Use some of the left over flat balsa wood to make a name
plate for your boat.
25. Write your boat name onto this.
26. Secure in place with hot glue.
Decorate:
You can now decorate your boat as you like using paint, stickers, people or other craft products.
Test:
To test your finished boat, carefully place it in a sink, pool, bucket or bath tub filled with water to see if it floats. My sailing boat WAS SEAWORTHY.
Happy Sailing "Me Hardy's"!
Love and Light,
Penni
Great boat better than my last effort for Miss 10 last year lol and I rarely ever buy new cept yesterday new school shoes for Miss 5 and didnt I hate going to the shopping centre?
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